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2title: Hands
3genre: prose
4
5id: hands
6toc: "Hands"
7
8project:
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
24He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.
25They were [dry and cracked in places][].
26He 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.
30He walked into the [bathroom][] and looked at himself in the mirror.
31"I look strange" he said to himself "I look like a teenager."
32He stared into his [right eye, then his left][].
33He saw nothing but [his own reflection fish-eyed][] in his pupils.
34He opened the medicine cabinet.
35
36Back 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