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2title: Man
3id: man
4genre: prose
5
6ekphrastic:
7 image: tbedemugshot.jpg
8 title: This man refused to open his eyes
9 link: 'http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/fullRecordPicture.jsp?recnoListAttr=recnoList&recno=31230'
10
11project:
12 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
13 class: paul
14 order: 22
15 next:
16 - title: Snow
17 link: snow
18 - title: Notes
19 link: notes
20 prev:
21 - title: Cereal
22 link: cereal
23 - title: Leg
24 link: leg
25...
26
27_THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES_
28
29Paul read this on an old mugshot in the library.
30He had taken the [bus][] into town to check out a few books on woodworking and got distracted by the True Crime section.
31He found this mugshot in a book titled _Crooks like Us_ that was published in Sydney.
32He liked how cities were named after women, or how women were named after cities, whichever was true.
33
34The man in the picture's eyes were tightly shut, as though he'd just come into the brightness of day after being dark inside for a long time.
35His head was tilted up and slightly to the right.
36He was wearing a short light tie with hash marks, and a pinstripe suit.
37Paul wished the [photograph][] was in color.
38He was standing in front of a plain brown wall covered in fabric.
39
40The man's eyes were not so tightly shut as Paul first thought.
41His eyebrows lifted away from the eyes, giving the man a bemused look.
42His mouth was slightly opened in what seemed to Paul like a grin.
43This was accentuated by the man's ears, which were large.
44Paul wasn't sure why the ears made the man look happier.
45He wondered what crime he had committed.
46
47Above the man's head was written [_T. BEDE.22.11.28 / 203 A_.][emilia]
48_THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES_ was written over his suit, directly below his ribcage.
49
50[emilia]: http://emiliaphillips.com/books/signaletics/
51[bus]: boy_bus.html
52[photograph]: about-the-author.html