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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Fire | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 39 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Hands | ||
11 | link: hands | ||
12 | previous: | ||
13 | - title: Paul | ||
14 | link: paul | ||
15 | - title: Father | ||
16 | link: father | ||
17 | ... | ||
18 | |||
19 | His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown. "What the hell do you think | ||
20 | you're doing" she hollered as Paul watched the shed. "I'm burning the shed | ||
21 | down" he said smiling "isn't it warm?" "It's warm enough out here without | ||
22 | that burning down" she said "go get the hose and put this thing out." "But | ||
23 | Mom" "Do it" she said in the tone of voice that meant Do it now. He went | ||
24 | around the side of the house screwed the nozzle on grabbed the end of the hose | ||
25 | pulled it around the house and waited for water to come out the end. When it | ||
26 | did it was not in a very strong stream. "I don't think this is going to work" | ||
27 | Paul said to his mother. "God damn it I have to call the Fire Department" she | ||
28 | said and went inside the house. The shed continued in its burning. | ||
29 | |||
30 | After the Fire Department put out the fire one of the men said "Your mother | ||
31 | says you set this building on fire. You know Arson is a major offense." "I | ||
32 | set it on fire" Paul said. "Why?" "Because ART wants to be random, it wants | ||
33 | to be natural, but it isn't. Humans create ART because we can't help but see | ||
34 | patterns in randomness. But we feel guilty about it." The man nodded to | ||
35 | another man in a blue uniform. "We want the ART to feel natural, to feel | ||
36 | random, but we can't stop seeing the patterns" as the man in blue walked over | ||
37 | and put a hand on Paul's shoulder "ART is unnatural by its very nature. I | ||
38 | took my ART and gave it back to nature" as the man led him over to a black and | ||
39 | white car and put him inside. He was saying something about Paul's right. | ||
40 | "No it's my left that was hurt" said Paul "but it's all better now." | ||