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Arguments for an empty room<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n It is a space that shapes, a boon, an asset. A container, a repository, a suggestion. And we can now confidently add to that: an inheritance, an investment, an aid – exclusively and uniquely purpose-driven.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Room or shed? Building or box? Portal or fully sealed unit?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These sound like choices, but they’re not. They’re decisions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A: At this stage I’d consider them options. In our bracket, and at our age, they’re options. Clearly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n B: Sealed unit?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A: Okay, that’s the exception. That’s talking new-build. Unless you’re doing a portal conversion – if you can<\/em> do that from the outside.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n B: Doors swing inwards, so it’s doubtful. Door swings in: you lose your emptiness.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A: Is that the way it works, though? The door’s part of the room, surely, so how can it ‘enter’ the room?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n B: It defines the boundary – the room starts where the wall ends. If it falls or swings in it enters.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A: And if the light fitting were to fall from the ceiling? Is that entering? It’s already in the room.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n B: Then it can’t enter. It would have to exit first.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A: For how long? How long before it became a thing from outside rather than part-of-the-room?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n B: It would have to do more than just swing in and out. It would have to rest outside for a period.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A: Rest or be lodged?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n B: It’s inanimate; I can’t see it leaving the room and returning under its own agency. It would most likely be accompanied.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A: If it were to swing OUT then part of it would remain inside, so it would be both outside and inside simultaneously. It would be in between states.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n B: But, again, accompanied. And the likelihood of a light fitting reaching a doorway and still remaining attached to the ceiling must be low, very low.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Points of clarification:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If the ceiling rose were positioned sufficiently closer to the door than the opposite wall, and the flex were long, then it would accommodate such an arc.<\/p>\n If the ceiling were very high, and the doorframe very tall, then this would further add to the potential of such an action.<\/p>\n To set it in motion there would need to be a sudden crumbling – of the hole in the ceiling on the side adjacent to the door.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If these conditions are present: it could happen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next time: If you remove the walls does the empty space cease to exist?<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Paul Tarrag\u00f3<\/strong> is an experimental filmmaker and writer living in London. Recent writings appear in The Wrong Quarterly, 2HB, decomP magazinE, SO MUCH FOR FREE SCHOOL, ETC.<\/em> (Five Years), as well as his short story collection – The Mascot Moth and several other pieces<\/em>. He’s currently working on a second collection entitled The Water Rabbits<\/em>.\u00a0 https:\/\/paultarrago.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Arguments for an empty room It is a space that shapes, a boon, an asset. A container, a repository, a suggestion. And we can now confidently add to that: an inheritance, an investment, an aid – exclusively and uniquely purpose-driven. Room or shed? Building or box? 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