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2 | title: Question | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 19 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Sapling | ||
11 | link: sapling | ||
12 | - title: Reports | ||
13 | link: reports | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Window | ||
16 | link: window | ||
17 | - title: Punch | ||
18 | link: punch | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | "Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything" Paul | ||
22 | asked Jill on his first coffee break at work. It was in the city and his | ||
23 | mother told him she wouldn't drive him so he'd had to take the bus. Number 3 | ||
24 | he thought it was – he couldn't quite remember. Jill said "Sorry what?" Paul | ||
25 | realized that she hadn't really noticed him there in the break room as he was | ||
26 | hunched behind the refrigerator a little and she was busy pouring coffee and | ||
27 | exactly two tablespoons of both milk and sugar into her mug before she put the | ||
28 | coffee in. He decided to repeat the question. | ||
29 | |||
30 | "How do you think" he asked. "Like everyone else I guess" she said "I have a | ||
31 | thought and if it's important I write it down." "Do you have to say them out | ||
32 | loud for them to make sense?" "Are you asking if I talk to myself?" A pause. | ||
33 | "I guess so" he said looking down. He had a feeling this was a bad thing. | ||
34 | "Sometimes" she said and walked out of the break room. She didn't understand | ||
35 | the importance of his question. She popped her head back in a moment later and | ||
36 | his heart leaped in his chest. | ||
37 | |||
38 | "How's your first day going so far" she asked. "Can you understand everything | ||
39 | okay?" "Yes" he said "you were right it's pretty basic." "Good" she said. | ||
40 | "Paul?" "Yes." "Do you have to say all of your thoughts out loud to remember | ||
41 | them?" He shook his head. | ||
42 | |||
43 | Only all of the time, Paul thought to himself but didn't speak. | ||