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authorCase Duckworth2015-02-09 12:04:05 -0700
committerCase Duckworth2015-02-09 12:04:05 -0700
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2title: Hands
3genre: prose
4
5project:
6 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
7 css: paul
8 order: 10
9 next:
10 - title: Toilet
11 link: toilet
12 - title: Hardware
13 link: hardware
14 previous:
15 - title: Shed
16 link: shed
17 - title: Fire
18 link: fire
19...
20
21He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing. They were dry and
22cracked in places. He thought he might start bleeding so he went inside for
23some lotion.
24
25"Do we have any lotion" he asked his mother. "In the medicine cabinet" she
26said without looking up from the TV. He walked into the bathroom and looked
27at himself in the mirror. "I look strange" he said to himself "I look like a
28teenager." He stared into his right eye, then his left. He saw nothing but
29his own reflection fish-eyed in his pupils. He opened the medicine cabinet.
30
31Back in his Writing Shack, he started to type.
32
33```type
34What is it about hands that gives
35them such power? It is that their
36power is hidden in the arm. Push
37on the inside of the wrist--the
38hand closes. Reach under the skin
39and pull on the outside tendons--
40the hand opens again. Hands are
41only machines for grasping,
42controlled by the arm, not the
43mind.
44```