The "You can feel the wall to left of you" being repeated was because you where looking at the door out of that room. I am going to have to add info to that line to say the door is there each time.
The lines are skippable, the helpme.txt that has info on what buttons can be used to do that. The only time something is not skippable is if it has an image as part of the line.
I would like a screenshot of the weird black stuff if possible, I am not sure what it is based on that description.