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2title: Hardware
3genre: prose
4
5id: hardware
6toc: "Hardware"
7
8project:
9 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
10 class: paul
11 order: 14
12 next:
13 - title: Treatise
14 link: treatise
15 - title: Hymnal
16 link: hymnal
17 prev:
18 - title: Planks
19 link: planks
20 - title: Hands
21 link: hands
22...
23
24His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.
25"I'm glad to see you've taken my advice for once" she said.
26"What do you mean."
27"Applying to work at the Hardware Store.
28I'm [proud of you][] Paul."
29
30"Oh right.
31Sure thing."
32They pulled into the parking lot.
33"Just be a minute" he said as he opened the car door.
34
35He walked under the door resplendent in its King William orange and white.
36He saw the towering rows of shelves like mountain ridges in Hell.
37He strolled among the fixtures, pipes, planks, sheets, plants (Why plants? he thought), switches.
38He realized he didn't know the first thing about building [furniture][].
39"I don't know the first thing" he muttered to himself "about building furniture.
40I know the last thing would be a couch or chair or stool but the first thing is a [mystery][]."
41He turned around and walked straight out of the store and to his mother's car without looking up.
42
43"How'd it go" she asked starting the car.
44"Great" he said.
45
46[proud of you]: sixteenth-chapel.html
47[furniture]: real-writer.html
48[mystery]: love-as-god.html