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2title: Wallpaper
3id: wallpaper
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
8 class: paul
9 order: 31
10 next:
11 - title: Punch
12 link: punch
13 - title: Window
14 link: window
15 prev:
16 - title: X-ray
17 link: x-ray
18 - title: Underwear
19 link: underwear
20...
21
22He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.
23His hatchet was in there, and his axe.
24He didn't want to face them.
25His papers, he decided, could wait in the top drawer for a while before being looked at again.
26The pain medication made him loopy.
27He couldn't think as well as he was used to, which wasn't well to begin with.
28Even saying his thoughts out loud, it was as though they were on the [TV in the next room][].
29Someone was cheering.
30They had just won a car.
31
32His mother came in with lunch on a tray.
33It was hot tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich.
34"What have you been doing all day" she asked "you haven't just been staring at the wall have you?"
35He had been staring at the wall most of the day.
36[The wall without the window on it, with the woodgrain wallpaper.][]
37"No" he said.
38"What have you been doing then" she asked setting the tray down on his lap.
39He sat up and almost upset it, but she caught it before it spilled anything.
40"Composing in my head" he lied. "A novel of my experience."
41
42"[Do you really think anyone will want to read about you][do you]" she asked and walked out of the room.
43
44[TV in the next room]: statements-frag.html
45[The wall without the window on it, with the woodgrain wallpaper.]: in-bed.html
46[do you]: http://www.confederacyofdunces.com/