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2. Nearby
Places connected by his routine; this is not a measured map.
- Middle station
- His work and his room share a location.
- Room above
- Bed, fork, bicycle; he sleeps alone on Sundays
- Loop outside the window
- Two cars meet for 12 seconds
- Sea
- Sunday swimming
- Fish counter
- He eats standing
- Stair street
- The cellist's route after the second March encounter
Relationships
- Middle station → Room above: room above
- Middle station → Loop outside the window: working view
- Middle station → Sea: Sunday routine
- Sea → Fish counter: Sunday routine
- Middle station → Stair street: cellist avoids platform (reported, incomplete, disputed or interpretive connection)
The text locates the room over the station; it does not put every destination within sight of the cable.
Different units and kinds of evidence remain separate.
| Evidence | Reported amount or fact | What remains uncertain |
|---|---|---|
| Annual service account | 11 names; 4.5 stars | Which entries account for the mismatch |
| His recollection | 9 bodies | What he has forgotten or failed to recognize |
| Two entries | Photographs in his own room | He cannot place a face above the blanket |
| Pillowcases | He owns the set he did not recognize | Why possession and memory differ |
| Healed bite | Matches none of the 11 names | Whose encounter left it |
Eleven names and nine remembered bodies disagree; the text does not identify every discrepancy or its cause.
Narrative sequence of the final encounter; his exact vantage is not specified.
- Meeting at the loop
- The cars hold 12 seconds of level glass.
- A hand in the down car
- A palm rises against the glass.
- His answering hand
- He raises it without seeing whose hand he answers.
- Cars separate
- His hand remains raised.
- Room above
- The second plate remains visible from the door.
The raised hand has no identified owner. Keeping his hand raised is observable; mutual recognition is not.