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