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2title: Stump
3id: stump
4genre: prose
5
6project:
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
22He walked into the woods for the first time in months.
23It 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.][]
25Instead of an axe, his right hand clutched his notebook.
26His left was in his pocket.
27A pencil perched behind his ear.
28
29He walked aimlessly until coming over a short rise he saw a stump.
30He 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.
31Paul walked over to the stump and sat down.
32
33He looked up and tried to find a pattern in the placement of the trees.
34There was none.
35They grew randomly, beginning nowhere and ending in the same place.
36[A squirrel][] ran down one and up another for no reason.
37He opened his notebook and took his pencil from his ear but could think of nothing to write.
38
39A crow called hoarsely to another, something important.
40Paul looked up but could not see the black bird in the [leaves of the trees][].
41He looked back down to the cream-colored pages of his notebook.
42
43He 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