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2title: Hands
3id: hands
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
8 class: paul
9 order: 10
10 next:
11 - title: Toilet
12 link: toilet
13 - title: Hardware
14 link: hardware
15 prev:
16 - title: Shed
17 link: shed
18 - title: Fire
19 link: fire
20...
21
22He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.
23They were [dry and cracked in places][].
24He thought he might start bleeding so he went inside for some lotion.
25
26"Do we have any lotion" he asked his mother.
27"In the medicine cabinet" she said without looking up from the TV.
28He walked into the [bathroom][] and looked at himself in the mirror.
29"I look strange" he said to himself "I look like a teenager."
30He stared into his [right eye, then his left][].
31He saw nothing but [his own reflection fish-eyed][] in his pupils.
32He opened the medicine cabinet.
33
34Back in his Writing Shack, he started to type.
35
36> What is it about hands that gives
37> them such power? It is that their
38> power is hidden in the arm. Push
39> on the inside of the wrist--the
40> hand closes. Reach under the skin
41> and pull on the outside tendons--
42> the hand opens again. Hands are
43> only [machines][] for grasping,
44> controlled by the arm, not the
45> mind.
46
47[dry and cracked in places]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html
48[bathroom]: boar.html
49[right eye, then his left]: man.html
50[his own reflection fish-eyed]: deathstrumpet.html
51[machines]: ex-machina.html