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+title: Cereal
+genre: prose
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    css: paul
+    order: 21
+    next:
+    - title: Man
+      link: man
+    - title: Dream
+      link: dream
+    previous:
+    - title: Sapling
+      link: sapling
+    - title: Building
+      link: building
+...
+
+He woke up after eleven and didn't go outside all day, not even to his Writing
+Shack.  What did he do?
+
+He watched late morning cartoons meant for children too young to go to school.
+He ate bowls of cereal.  He watched his mother play dominoes.  He played
+dominoes with her for a little while until she was winning by such a margin it
+wasn't fun for either of them.  He went down to the basement to do his
+laundry.  He pulled the chain for the light and it turned on like magic.
+"Electricity is like magic" he said to himself.  He thought he would like to
+write that down but his Implements were in the Shack.  He'd already built up
+so much momentum inside.
+
+Inertia?  he thought.  "What's the difference between inertia and momentum" he
+asked himself as he hefted dirty clothes into the washer.  "Maybe inertia is
+the momentum of not moving" he thought as he measured and poured the blue
+detergent into the drum.  "Momentum is the inertia of moving forward through
+time" as he selected WARM-COLD on the dial and pulled it out to start the
+machine.  "What do you think is the difference between inertia and momentum"
+he asked his mother when he opened the door at the top of the stairs.
+
+"When you switch over your laundry could you bring up my underwear from the
+dryer" she asked not looking up from her dominoes.  A thread of smoke curled
+from her cigarette and spread out on the ceiling.