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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Stagnant | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 27 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Building | ||
11 | link: building | ||
12 | - title: Stump | ||
13 | link: stump | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Options | ||
16 | link: options | ||
17 | - title: Snow | ||
18 | link: snow | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | "Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read" Paul thought to | ||
22 | himself on the bus ride to work. His thoughts couldn't become real to him | ||
23 | because he didn't want to look insane to everyone else on the bus. His | ||
24 | thoughts came to him like someone yelling over a hard wind. He was trying to | ||
25 | write them on his memory but the act of writing was easier and more immediate | ||
26 | than that of listening. He was afraid that when he looked at his memory later | ||
27 | he wouldn't be able to read what was written. | ||
28 | |||
29 | "Thoughts are like the wind outside a moving bus" he thought "or rather the | ||
30 | bus is a brain slamming into columns of stagnant air causing them to whistle | ||
31 | past in a confusion of something." He could barely hear the voice yelling to | ||
32 | him over the wind. "Speak up" he thought to the voice, then remembered it was | ||
33 | his own. He wished he'd remembered a book to read. | ||
34 | |||
35 | He looked at his hands to pass the time. They were dry in the winter air that | ||
36 | had seeped its way into the bus. He tried to figure out how many hours they | ||
37 | would make it before cracking and bleeding. "Maybe three or four" he thought | ||
38 | accidentally out loud. He looked around expecting stares from everyone on the | ||
39 | seat. He was surprised that he was the only one on the bus. | ||