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+title: Question
+genre: prose
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    css: paul
+    order: 19
+    next:
+    - title: Sapling
+      link: sapling
+    - title: Reports
+      link: reports
+    previous:
+    - title: Window
+      link: window
+    - title: Punch
+      link: punch
+...
+
+"Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything" Paul
+asked Jill on his first coffee break at work.  It was in the city and his
+mother told him she wouldn't drive him so he'd had to take the bus.  Number 3
+he thought it was – he couldn't quite remember.  Jill said "Sorry what?"  Paul
+realized that she hadn't really noticed him there in the break room as he was
+hunched behind the refrigerator a little and she was busy pouring coffee and
+exactly two tablespoons of both milk and sugar into her mug before she put the
+coffee in.  He decided to repeat the question.
+
+"How do you think" he asked.  "Like everyone else I guess" she said "I have a
+thought and if it's important I write it down."  "Do you have to say them out
+loud for them to make sense?"  "Are you asking if I talk to myself?"  A pause.
+"I guess so" he said looking down.  He had a feeling this was a bad thing.
+"Sometimes" she said and walked out of the break room.  She didn't understand
+the importance of his question.  She popped her head back in a moment later and
+his heart leaped in his chest.
+
+"How's your first day going so far" she asked.  "Can you understand everything
+okay?"  "Yes" he said "you were right it's pretty basic."  "Good" she said.
+"Paul?"  "Yes."  "Do you have to say all of your thoughts out loud to remember
+them?"  He shook his head.
+
+Only all of the time, Paul thought to himself but didn't speak.