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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Tapestry | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 17 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Window | ||
11 | link: window | ||
12 | - title: Toilet | ||
13 | link: toilet | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Phone | ||
16 | link: phone | ||
17 | - title: Swear | ||
18 | link: swear | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | _Apparently typewriters need ribbon. Apparently ribbon is incredibly hard to | ||
22 | find anymore because no one uses typewriters. Apparently I am writing my | ||
23 | hymns from now on._ So he was back to calling his notes "hymns." He looked | ||
24 | up "hymns" in the dictionary. It said that a hymn was "an ode or song of | ||
25 | praise or adoration." Praise or adoration to what? he asked himself. He | ||
26 | thought maybe furniture. There was still a lot of notfurniture in what he was | ||
27 | again calling his Writing Shack. | ||
28 | |||
29 | The dictionary also had this to say about "hymn": that it was possibly related | ||
30 | to the old Greek word for "weave." "Weave what" Paul wondered to himself. He | ||
31 | wrote this down on a new notecard. _Apparently "hymn" means weave somehow. | ||
32 | Or it used to. Or its cousin did. What is it weaving? Who is it weaving for? | ||
33 | I remember in school we talked about Odysseus and his wife Penelope, who wove | ||
34 | a tapestry every day just to take it apart at night. I forget why._ | ||
35 | |||
36 | _Maybe she wove the tapestry for Odysseus. Maybe she wove it for herself. | ||
37 | What did she weave it of? Memory, maybe? Or dream? I think these words make | ||
38 | a kind of tapestry, or at least the thread it will be made of. I will weave a | ||
39 | hymn to the gods of Literature, out of fiction. My furniture was a try at | ||
40 | weaving, but I am shit at furniture. So writing it is again._ | ||
41 | |||
42 | He wrote _**NOTES FOR A HYMN**_ at the top of this notecard. | ||