JIANG LAB — UNSTRUCTURED NOTES — PERSONAL — NOT FOR PUBLICATION
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The corridor exists between pages, not on them.

This is why the library links to the lab links to the corridor links back to the library — the meaning is in the connections, not the destinations.

M. called again. I didn't answer.

I did answer. I was afraid. I answered and said I was fine and then I went back to work.

Why does everyone who stays in the corridor too long start seeing the same things? Subject 7 from EXP-001 and Subject 2 from EXP-003 had never met. They both described: a door, a long walk, arriving somewhere familiar.

Familiar in the sense of: like something they'd always known but never seen before. I know what that feeling is. I have it every morning now.

If it's a loop, there must be an exit. Unless the exit is the entry point.

I keep writing this and then staring at it. I think the answer is yes. The exit and the entry are the same door, from different directions.
THE RECURSION LOOP (approximate)
┌──────────────────────────────────────┐ │ ENTRY → meaning builds → meaning │ │ ↑ ↓ │ │ EXIT ← loops ← accumulates │ └──────────────────────────────────────┘ Note: exit ≠ where you started. You changed. The loop is the same. The difference between entry-you and exit-you IS the corridor.

I haven't been sleeping. Not because I can't — because the dreams are more informative than being awake and I don't want to leave them early.

In the dream I am always at the same point in the corridor. Exactly halfway. I know this because I know how long the corridor is, and I have been walking exactly long enough to be halfway. But the corridor has no end, so halfway is

Left that one unfinished on purpose.

Note about the observatory: the coordinates I found point to a location that should be unreachable. This doesn't mean it's imaginary. It means it's somewhere that our coordinate system can't fully describe. The corridor exists at those coordinates.

It is going to be fine. I have thought about this carefully and I believe it is going to be fine.

It IS going to be fine. I removed the doubt. she was right. it was fine. I promise.