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18 | link: reports | 18 | link: reports |
19 | ... | 19 | ... |
20 | 20 | ||
21 | He chopped down a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch. From first chop | 21 | He chopped down a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch. |
22 | to fall it had taken him eight minutes and something like twenty seconds. | 22 | From first chop to fall it had taken him eight minutes and something like twenty seconds. |
23 | Maybe a little change. He leaned against another tree and fished in his | 23 | Maybe a little change. |
24 | pocket for a cigarette. He lifted it out of its box and fished in his other | 24 | He leaned against another tree and fished in his pocket for a cigarette. |
25 | pocket for his lighter, failing to find it. He searched his other pockets. | 25 | He lifted it out of its box and fished in his other pocket for his lighter, failing to find it. |
26 | He came to the realization that he had forgotten it in his Shack (in confusion | 26 | He searched his other pockets. |
27 | over his True Vocation, he'd resorted to calling it simply the Shack until he | 27 | He came to the realization that he had forgotten it in his Shack (in confusion over his True Vocation, he'd resorted to calling it simply the Shack until he could figure it out). |
28 | could figure it out). He sighed and put his hands in his pockets. | 28 | He sighed and put his hands in his pockets. |
29 | 29 | ||
30 | "I wonder if trees are protective of their young" he said to himself, then | 30 | "I wonder if trees are protective of their young" he said to himself, then wondered if why he had to think his thoughts out loud, then remembered he always did this, then remembered his conversation with Jill. |
31 | wondered if why he had to think his thoughts out loud, then remembered he | 31 | He hoped she didn't. |
32 | always did this, then remembered his conversation with Jill. He hoped she | 32 | He hoped that conversation was like the tree that fell in the forest with no one around. |
33 | didn't. He hoped that conversation was like the tree that fell in the forest | 33 | "I wonder if a thought said out loud isn't heard by anyone, if it was made. |
34 | with no one around. "I wonder if a thought said out loud isn't heard by | 34 | I think maybe this is what Literature (big L) is all about, if it's trying to make a connection because no idea matters unless it's connected to something else, or to someone else. |
35 | anyone, if it was made. I think maybe this is what Literature (big L) is all | 35 | Maybe no wood matters unless it's bound to another by upholstery nails. |
36 | about, if it's trying to make a connection because no idea matters unless it's | 36 | If 'the devil is in the details,' as they say (who are 'they' anyway?), the details are the connections? |
37 | connected to something else, or to someone else. Maybe no wood matters unless | 37 | That doesn't make sense. |
38 | it's bound to another by upholstery nails. If 'the devil is in the details,' | 38 | Details are details. |
39 | as they say (who are 'they' anyway?), the details are the connections? That | 39 | Connections are connections. |
40 | doesn't make sense. Details are details. Connections are connections. | ||
41 | 40 | ||
42 | "Still, a neuron by itself means nothing. Put them all together though and | 41 | "Still, a neuron by itself means nothing. |
43 | connect them. You've got a brain." | 42 | Put them all together though and connect them. |
43 | You've got a brain." | ||