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2title: Sapling
3id: sapling
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
8 class: paul
9 order: 20
10 next:
11 - title: Cereal
12 link: cereal
13 - title: Shed
14 link: shed
15 prev:
16 - title: Question
17 link: question
18 - title: Reports
19 link: reports
20...
21
22He chopped down a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.
23From first chop to fall it had taken him eight minutes and something like twenty seconds.
24Maybe a little change.
25He leaned against another tree and fished in his pocket for a cigarette.
26He lifted it out of its box and fished in his other pocket for his lighter, failing to find it.
27He searched his other pockets.
28He came to the realization that he had forgotten it in his Shack (in confusion over his True Vocation, he'd resorted to calling it simply the Shack until he could figure it out).
29He sighed and put his hands in his pockets.
30
31"I wonder if trees are protective of their young" he said to himself, then wondered if why he had to think his thoughts out loud, then remembered he always did this, then remembered his conversation with Jill.
32He hoped she didn't.
33He hoped that conversation was like [the tree that fell in the forest][] with no one around.
34"I wonder if a thought said out loud isn't heard by anyone, if it was made.
35I think maybe this is what Literature (big L) is all about, if it's trying to make a connection because no idea matters unless it's connected to something else, or to someone else.
36Maybe no wood matters unless it's [bound to another][] by upholstery nails.
37If 'the devil is in the details,' as they say (who are 'they' anyway?), the details are the connections?
38That doesn't make sense.
39Details are details.
40Connections are connections.
41
42"Still, a neuron by itself means nothing.
43Put them all together though and connect them.
44You've got a brain."
45
46[the tree that fell in the forest]: options.html
47[bound to another]: last-passenger.html