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2title: Cereal
3genre: prose
4
5id: cereal
6toc: "Cereal"
7
8project:
9 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
10 class: paul
11 order: 21
12 next:
13 - title: Man
14 link: man
15 - title: Dream
16 link: dream
17 prev:
18 - title: Sapling
19 link: sapling
20 - title: Building
21 link: building
22...
23
24He woke up after eleven and didn't go [outside][] all day, not even to his Writing Shack.
25What did he do?
26
27He watched late morning cartoons meant for children too young to go to school.
28He ate bowls of cereal.
29He watched his mother play dominoes.
30He played dominoes with her for a little while until she was winning by such a margin it wasn't fun for either of them.
31He went down to the basement to do his [laundry][].
32He pulled the chain for the light and it turned on like magic.
33"Electricity is like magic" he said to himself.
34He thought he would like to write that down but his Implements were in the Shack.
35He'd already built up so much momentum inside.
36
37---Inertia? he thought.
38"What's the difference between inertia and momentum" he asked himself as he hefted dirty clothes into the washer.
39"Maybe inertia is the momentum of not moving" he thought as he measured and poured the blue detergent into the drum.
40"Momentum is the inertia of moving forward through time" as he selected WARM-COLD on the dial and pulled it out to start the machine.
41"What do you think is the difference between inertia and momentum" he asked his mother when he opened the door at the top of the stairs.
42
43"When you switch over your laundry could you bring up my underwear from the dryer" she asked not looking up from her dominoes.
44A [thread of smoke][] curled from her cigarette and spread out on the ceiling.
45
46[outside]: time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html
47[laundry]: underwear.html
48[thread of smoke]: last-passenger.html