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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Writing | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | project: | ||
6 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
7 | css: paul | ||
8 | order: 7 | ||
9 | next: | ||
10 | - title: Notes | ||
11 | link: notes | ||
12 | - title: X-ray | ||
13 | link: x-ray | ||
14 | previous: | ||
15 | - title: Leaf | ||
16 | link: leaf | ||
17 | - title: Window | ||
18 | link: window | ||
19 | ... | ||
20 | |||
21 | He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic | ||
22 | wrapping. He remembered how to fill it from _The View from Saturday_, which | ||
23 | he'd read as a kid. It had been one of his favorite books. He remembered the | ||
24 | heart puzzle they completed, the origin of the word "posh," and most of all | ||
25 | his fourth-grade teacher Ms. (Mrs? He could never remember) Samovar. He | ||
26 | smiled as he opened the lid on the ink well he'd just bought. | ||
27 | |||
28 | He dipped his pen in the inkwell, screwed the converter piston up, and watched | ||
29 | as nothing entered the chamber. He screwed it back down and up again, while | ||
30 | dipping the nib more deeply into the ink well. He watched as again nothing | ||
31 | filled the capsule. He screwed it down a third time. His thumb knocked the | ||
32 | inkwell over somehow by accident. | ||
33 | |||
34 | As he swore, stood up and away from the table, and went into the house proper | ||
35 | for paper towels, he resolved to buy a typewriter. | ||