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