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2title: Writing
3genre: prose
4
5project:
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
21He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic
22wrapping. He remembered how to fill it from _The View from Saturday_, which
23he'd read as a kid. It had been one of his favorite books. He remembered the
24heart puzzle they completed, the origin of the word "posh," and most of all
25his fourth-grade teacher Ms. (Mrs? He could never remember) Samovar. He
26smiled as he opened the lid on the ink well he'd just bought.
27
28He dipped his pen in the inkwell, screwed the converter piston up, and watched
29as nothing entered the chamber. He screwed it back down and up again, while
30dipping the nib more deeply into the ink well. He watched as again nothing
31filled the capsule. He screwed it down a third time. His thumb knocked the
32inkwell over somehow by accident.
33
34As he swore, stood up and away from the table, and went into the house proper
35for paper towels, he resolved to buy a typewriter.