Read the two original literary excerpts. Text 1: The portrait had been removed, but the rectangle of unfaded wallpaper commanded the room more sternly than the old judge ever had. Guests lowered their voices before it. Text 2: After the piano was sold, the parlor kept a silence shaped exactly like its body. Children walked around the empty place as if music could bruise. Which paired details most clearly establish that both texts make absence feel present through negative space?