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+title: Building
+id: building
+genre: prose
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 28
+    next:
+    - title: Yellow
+      link: yellow
+    - title: Cereal
+      link: cereal
+    prev:
+    - title: Stagnant
+      link: stagnant
+    - title: Axe
+      link: axe
+...
+
+_[ART and CRAFT][] are only the inside and outside of the same building.
+The ceiling is_---here he put his eraser to his bottom lip, thinking.
+He crossed out _~~The ceiling is.~~_
+_The floor is reality and the ceiling is ~~aspiration~~ ~~desire~~ that which is desired.
+CRAFT is building a [chair][] from wood.
+ART is using the wood as a substrate for an emotional [message to a future person][], the READER / VIEWER._
+
+_The important thing is they are both made of wood.
+The important thing is they were both, at one point, alive natural things that grew and changed and pushed their way out of the dirt into the air.
+They formed buildings out of the air.
+They didn't even try._
+
+_What separates us from them, the trees?
+[We have to try.][]
+We must labor to create our ART, [our buildings of air][].
+We lay them out brick by brick, we build them up by disintegrating trees and forming them again into what they were before.
+Why must we do this?  Are there any advantages to this human method?_
+
+_Our advantage is [memory][].
+Our advantage is the reaching-out over space and time to others with our words, our ART.
+Our buildings last for generations, and after they are demolished they are written about, [photographs][] are taken, we **remember**.
+The [act of memory][] is our only ART._
+
+[ART and CRAFT]: toilet.html
+[chair]: boar.html
+[message to a future person]: poetry-time.html
+[We have to try.]: plant.html
+[our buildings of air]: common-titles.html
+[photographs]: man.html
+[memory]: ouroboros_memory.html
+[act of memory]: riptide_memory.html