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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Stump | ||
3 | id: stump | ||
4 | genre: prose | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
8 | class: paul | ||
9 | order: 34 | ||
10 | next: | ||
11 | - title: Early | ||
12 | link: early | ||
13 | - title: Swear | ||
14 | link: swear | ||
15 | prev: | ||
16 | - title: Joke | ||
17 | link: joke | ||
18 | - title: Stagnant | ||
19 | link: stagnant | ||
20 | ... | ||
21 | |||
22 | He walked into the woods for the first time in months. | ||
23 | It was a bright summer day but under the canopy of leaves it was cool and quiet and twilight. | ||
24 | [There was no sound but his footsteps, his breathing.][] | ||
25 | Instead of an axe, his right hand clutched his notebook. | ||
26 | His left was in his pocket. | ||
27 | A pencil perched behind his ear. | ||
28 | |||
29 | He walked aimlessly until coming over a short rise he saw a stump. | ||
30 | He recognized his handiwork in the way the stump made a kind of chair back---flat until the axe had gone through far enough, then a frayed edge like a torn page. | ||
31 | Paul walked over to the stump and sat down. | ||
32 | |||
33 | He looked up and tried to find a pattern in the placement of the trees. | ||
34 | There was none. | ||
35 | They grew randomly, beginning nowhere and ending in the same place. | ||
36 | [A squirrel][] ran down one and up another for no reason. | ||
37 | He opened his notebook and took his pencil from his ear but could think of nothing to write. | ||
38 | |||
39 | A crow called hoarsely to another, something important. | ||
40 | Paul looked up but could not see the black bird in the [leaves of the trees][]. | ||
41 | He looked back down to the cream-colored pages of his notebook. | ||
42 | |||
43 | He was surprised that he'd written _YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART_. | ||
44 | |||
45 | [There was no sound but his footsteps, his breathing.]: music-433.html | ||
46 | [A squirrel]: squirrel.html | ||
47 | [leaves of the trees]: death-zone.html | ||