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2title: Early
3id: early
4genre: prose
5
6project:
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.
24At intervals she would look sideways at Paul writing.
25He pretended not to notice.
26
27_ART = ARTIFICE_ he wrote.
28_ARTIFICE MEANS UNNATURAL.
29ARTIFICE MEANS BUILT.
30TO BUILD MEANS TO [FIND A PATTERN][] & FIND A PATTERN IS WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT._
31He 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.
34She [looked sideways][] at him and said "Sure Paul."
35"Early on in our evolution we were hunters right?
36And 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.
38If you're going to write this stuff go do it in your room you're distracting."
39Paul 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?
42Or was it random for them, did they think each year 'This seems like a good spot let's graze here' without knowing?"
43
44He 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