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This short attributed fragment turns running into a wall into proof that something is there.

Its brevity gives it the weight of an aphorism. The wall matters not as obstacle alone but as evidence that the world pushes back.

A two-line aphorism with an attribution, given the weight of an epigraph: 'Whem you run into a wall / you know something is there,' signed 'Tom Haydem' (source spellings Whem and Haydem). The wall is not framed as obstacle but as evidence - proof that the world pushes back and is real. The large gap before the name, preserved from the scan, sets the saying apart as quoted wisdom rather than the speaker's own line.