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+title: Cereal
+genre: prose
+
+id: cereal
+toc: "Cereal"
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 21
+    next:
+    - title: Man
+      link: man
+    - title: Dream
+      link: dream
+    prev:
+    - title: Sapling
+      link: sapling
+    - title: Building
+      link: building
+...
+
+He woke up after eleven and didn't go [outside][] all day, not even to his Writing Shack.
+What did he do?
+
+He watched late morning cartoons meant for children too young to go to school.
+He ate bowls of cereal.
+He watched his mother play dominoes.
+He played dominoes with her for a little while until she was winning by such a margin it wasn't fun for either of them.
+He went down to the basement to do his [laundry][].
+He pulled the chain for the light and it turned on like magic.
+"Electricity is like magic" he said to himself.
+He thought he would like to write that down but his Implements were in the Shack.
+He'd already built up so much momentum inside.
+
+---Inertia? he thought.
+"What's the difference between inertia and momentum" he asked himself as he hefted dirty clothes into the washer.
+"Maybe inertia is the momentum of not moving" he thought as he measured and poured the blue detergent into the drum.
+"Momentum is the inertia of moving forward through time" as he selected WARM-COLD on the dial and pulled it out to start the machine.
+"What do you think is the difference between inertia and momentum" he asked his mother when he opened the door at the top of the stairs.
+
+"When you switch over your laundry could you bring up my underwear from the dryer" she asked not looking up from her dominoes.
+A [thread of smoke][] curled from her cigarette and spread out on the ceiling.
+
+[outside]: time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html
+[laundry]: underwear.html
+[thread of smoke]: last-passenger.html