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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Early | ||
3 | id: early | ||
4 | genre: prose | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
8 | class: paul | ||
9 | order: 35 | ||
10 | next: | ||
11 | - title: Toothpaste | ||
12 | link: toothpaste | ||
13 | - title: Father | ||
14 | link: father | ||
15 | prev: | ||
16 | - title: Stump | ||
17 | link: stump | ||
18 | - title: Dream | ||
19 | link: dream | ||
20 | ... | ||
21 | |||
22 | _YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home while his mother [watched TV][] and smoked. | ||
23 | [Dinner had been chicken][] and peas with [milk][] and afterward Paul and his mother sat on opposite ends of the couch. | ||
24 | At intervals she would look sideways at Paul writing. | ||
25 | He pretended not to notice. | ||
26 | |||
27 | _ART = ARTIFICE_ he wrote. | ||
28 | _ARTIFICE MEANS UNNATURAL. | ||
29 | ARTIFICE MEANS BUILT. | ||
30 | TO BUILD MEANS TO [FIND A PATTERN][] & FIND A PATTERN IS WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT._ | ||
31 | He thought about this while someone else won a car. | ||
32 | |||
33 | "Do you think humans are good at finding patterns because we are hunters" he asked his mother. | ||
34 | She [looked sideways][] at him and said "Sure Paul." | ||
35 | "Early on in our evolution we were hunters right? | ||
36 | And to hunt we had to see the patterns in seemingly random events, like where the gazelle went each year" | ||
37 | "Paul I'm trying to watch TV. | ||
38 | If you're going to write this stuff go do it in your room you're distracting." | ||
39 | Paul got up and went to his room and lay down on his bed. | ||
40 | |||
41 | "If the gazelle went [to the same place][] every year" he thought "did they know the pattern too? | ||
42 | Or was it random for them, did they think each year 'This seems like a good spot let's graze here' without knowing?" | ||
43 | |||
44 | He wrote _PATTERN = MEMORY_ in his notebook. | ||
45 | |||
46 | [watched TV]: real-writer.html | ||
47 | [Dinner had been chicken]: when-im-sorry-i.html | ||
48 | [milk]: shipwright.html | ||
49 | [FIND A PATTERN]: fire.html | ||
50 | [looked sideways]: movingsideways.html | ||
51 | [to the same place]: serengeti.html | ||