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2 | title: Early | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 35 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Toothpaste | ||
11 | link: toothpaste | ||
12 | - title: Father | ||
13 | link: father | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Stump | ||
16 | link: stump | ||
17 | - title: Dream | ||
18 | link: dream | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | _YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home | ||
22 | while his mother watched TV and smoked. Dinner had been chicken and peas with | ||
23 | milk and afterward Paul and his mother sat on opposite ends of the couch. At | ||
24 | intervals she would look sideways at Paul writing. He pretended not to notice. | ||
25 | |||
26 | _ART = ARTIFICE_ he wrote. _ARTIFICE MEANS UNNATURAL. ARTIFICE MEANS BUILT. | ||
27 | TO BUILD MEANS TO FIND A PATTERN & FIND A PATTERN IS WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT._ He | ||
28 | thought about this while someone else won a car. | ||
29 | |||
30 | "Do you think humans are good at finding patterns because we are hunters" he | ||
31 | asked his mother. She looked sideways at him and said "Sure Paul." "Early on | ||
32 | in our evolution we were hunters right? And to hunt we had to see the | ||
33 | patterns in seemingly random events, like where the gazelle went each year" | ||
34 | "Paul I'm trying to watch TV. If you're going to write this stuff go do it in | ||
35 | your room you're distracting." Paul got up and went to his room and lay down | ||
36 | on his bed. | ||
37 | |||
38 | "If the gazelle went to the same place every year" he thought "did they know | ||
39 | the pattern too? Or was it random for them, did they think each year 'This | ||
40 | seems like a good spot let's graze here' without knowing?" | ||
41 | |||
42 | He wrote _PATTERN = MEMORY_ in his notebook. | ||