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2 | title: Hands | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: hands | ||
6 | toc: "Hands" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
10 | class: paul | ||
11 | order: 10 | ||
12 | next: | ||
13 | - title: Toilet | ||
14 | link: toilet | ||
15 | - title: Hardware | ||
16 | link: hardware | ||
17 | prev: | ||
18 | - title: Shed | ||
19 | link: shed | ||
20 | - title: Fire | ||
21 | link: fire | ||
22 | ... | ||
23 | |||
24 | He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing. | ||
25 | They were [dry and cracked in places][]. | ||
26 | He thought he might start bleeding so he went inside for some lotion. | ||
27 | |||
28 | "Do we have any lotion" he asked his mother. | ||
29 | "In the medicine cabinet" she said without looking up from the TV. | ||
30 | He walked into the [bathroom][] and looked at himself in the mirror. | ||
31 | "I look strange" he said to himself "I look like a teenager." | ||
32 | He stared into his [right eye, then his left][]. | ||
33 | He saw nothing but [his own reflection fish-eyed][] in his pupils. | ||
34 | He opened the medicine cabinet. | ||
35 | |||
36 | Back in his Writing Shack, he started to type. | ||
37 | |||
38 | > What is it about hands that gives | ||
39 | > them such power? It is that their | ||
40 | > power is hidden in the arm. Push | ||
41 | > on the inside of the wrist--the | ||
42 | > hand closes. Reach under the skin | ||
43 | > and pull on the outside tendons-- | ||
44 | > the hand opens again. Hands are | ||
45 | > only [machines][] for grasping, | ||
46 | > controlled by the arm, not the | ||
47 | > mind. | ||
48 | |||
49 | [dry and cracked in places]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html | ||
50 | [bathroom]: boar.html | ||
51 | [right eye, then his left]: man.html | ||
52 | [his own reflection fish-eyed]: deathstrumpet.html | ||
53 | [machines]: ex-machina.html | ||