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+title: Early
+genre: prose
+
+id: early
+toc: "Early"
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 35
+    next:
+    - title: Toothpaste
+      link: toothpaste
+    - title: Father
+      link: father
+    prev:
+    - title: Stump
+      link: stump
+    - title: Dream
+      link: dream
+...
+
+_YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home while his mother [watched TV][] and smoked.
+[Dinner had been chicken][] and peas with [milk][] and afterward Paul and his mother sat on opposite ends of the couch.
+At intervals she would look sideways at Paul writing.
+He pretended not to notice.
+
+_ART = ARTIFICE_ he wrote.
+_ARTIFICE MEANS UNNATURAL.
+ARTIFICE MEANS BUILT.
+TO BUILD MEANS TO [FIND A PATTERN][] & FIND A PATTERN IS WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT._
+He thought about this while someone else won a car.
+
+"Do you think humans are good at finding patterns because we are hunters" he asked his mother.
+She [looked sideways][] at him and said "Sure Paul."
+"Early on in our evolution we were hunters right?
+And to hunt we had to see the patterns in seemingly random events, like where the gazelle went each year"
+"Paul I'm trying to watch TV.
+If you're going to write this stuff go do it in your room you're distracting."
+Paul got up and went to his room and lay down on his bed.
+
+"If the gazelle went [to the same place][] every year" he thought "did they know the pattern too?
+Or was it random for them, did they think each year 'This seems like a good spot let's graze here' without knowing?"
+
+He wrote _PATTERN = MEMORY_ in his notebook.
+
+[watched TV]: real-writer.html
+[Dinner had been chicken]: when-im-sorry-i.html
+[milk]: shipwright.html
+[FIND A PATTERN]: fire.html
+[looked sideways]: movingsideways.html
+[to the same place]: serengeti.html