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18 | link: swear | 18 | link: swear |
19 | ... | 19 | ... |
20 | 20 | ||
21 | _Apparently typewriters need ribbon. Apparently ribbon is incredibly hard to | 21 | _Apparently typewriters need ribbon. |
22 | find anymore because no one uses typewriters. Apparently I am writing my | 22 | Apparently ribbon is incredibly hard to find anymore because no one uses typewriters. |
23 | hymns from now on._ So he was back to calling his notes "hymns." He looked | 23 | Apparently I am writing my hymns from now on._ |
24 | up "hymns" in the dictionary. It said that a hymn was "an ode or song of | 24 | So he was back to calling his notes "hymns." |
25 | praise or adoration." Praise or adoration to what? he asked himself. He | 25 | He looked up "hymns" in the dictionary. |
26 | thought maybe furniture. There was still a lot of notfurniture in what he was | 26 | It said that a hymn was "an ode or song of praise or adoration." |
27 | again calling his Writing Shack. | 27 | Praise or adoration to what? he asked himself. |
28 | He thought maybe furniture. | ||
29 | There was still a lot of notfurniture in what he was again calling his Writing Shack. | ||
28 | 30 | ||
29 | The dictionary also had this to say about "hymn": that it was possibly related | 31 | The dictionary also had this to say about "hymn": that it was possibly related to the old Greek word for "weave." |
30 | to the old Greek word for "weave." "Weave what" Paul wondered to himself. He | 32 | "Weave what" Paul wondered to himself. |
31 | wrote this down on a new notecard. _Apparently "hymn" means weave somehow. | 33 | He wrote this down on a new notecard. |
32 | Or it used to. Or its cousin did. What is it weaving? Who is it weaving for? | 34 | _Apparently "hymn" means weave somehow. |
33 | I remember in school we talked about Odysseus and his wife Penelope, who wove | 35 | Or it used to. |
34 | a tapestry every day just to take it apart at night. I forget why._ | 36 | Or its cousin did. |
37 | What is it weaving? | ||
38 | Who is it weaving for? | ||
39 | 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. | ||
40 | I forget why._ | ||
35 | 41 | ||
36 | _Maybe she wove the tapestry for Odysseus. Maybe she wove it for herself. | 42 | _Maybe she wove the tapestry for Odysseus. |
37 | What did she weave it of? Memory, maybe? Or dream? I think these words make | 43 | Maybe she wove it for herself. |
38 | a kind of tapestry, or at least the thread it will be made of. I will weave a | 44 | What did she weave it of? |
39 | hymn to the gods of Literature, out of fiction. My furniture was a try at | 45 | Memory, maybe? |
40 | weaving, but I am shit at furniture. So writing it is again._ | 46 | Or dream? |
47 | I think these words make a kind of tapestry, or at least the thread it will be made of. | ||
48 | I will weave a hymn to the gods of Literature, out of fiction. | ||
49 | My furniture was a try at weaving, but I am shit at furniture. | ||
50 | So writing it is again._ | ||
41 | 51 | ||
42 | He wrote _**NOTES FOR A HYMN**_ at the top of this notecard. | 52 | He wrote _**NOTES FOR A HYMN**_ at the top of this notecard. |