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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Leg | ||
3 | id: leg | ||
4 | genre: prose | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
8 | class: paul | ||
9 | order: 12 | ||
10 | next: | ||
11 | - title: Planks | ||
12 | link: planks | ||
13 | - title: Man | ||
14 | link: man | ||
15 | prev: | ||
16 | - title: Toilet | ||
17 | link: toilet | ||
18 | - title: Leaf | ||
19 | link: leaf | ||
20 | ... | ||
21 | |||
22 | His first chair was a stool. | ||
23 | It was an [uneven wobbly stool][] that would not support even forty pounds. | ||
24 | "So my first chair is a broken stool" he said after nearly breaking his tailbone on the dirt floor. | ||
25 | "Maybe I should start again but this time only with legs." | ||
26 | He began again but this time only with legs. | ||
27 | He built [one leg][], which means he cut a straight piece of wood down to four feet in length, whittled the bark off, and sanded it down smooth in what he was now calling his Woodworking Shack. | ||
28 | He typed up a note on how to make chair legs. | ||
29 | |||
30 | > MAKING CHAIR LEGS | ||
31 | > | ||
32 | > 1. get longish piece of wood | ||
33 | > 2. cut it to length ([4 feet][] I'd | ||
34 | > recommend) | ||
35 | > 3. whittle off bark | ||
36 | > 4. sand smooth the leg | ||
37 | |||
38 | After he tried remembered tried standing the leg up, failing, and after much thought realizing that the ends needed to be flat, he typed one more line on his notecard: | ||
39 | |||
40 | > 5. make ends flat | ||
41 | |||
42 | He had no tools with which to flatten the ends of his leg. | ||
43 | |||
44 | [uneven wobbly stool]: stump.html | ||
45 | [one leg]: i-think-its-you.html | ||
46 | [4 feet]: boar.html | ||