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+title: Man
+genre: prose
+
+id: man
+toc: "Man"
+
+ekphrastic:
+    image: tbedemugshot.jpg
+    title: This man refused to open his eyes
+    link: 'http://collection.hht.net.au/firsthhtpictures/fullRecordPicture.jsp?recnoListAttr=recnoList&recno=31230'
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 22
+    next:
+    - title: Snow
+      link: snow
+    - title: Notes
+      link: notes
+    prev:
+    - title: Cereal
+      link: cereal
+    - title: Leg
+      link: leg
+...
+
+_THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES_
+
+Paul read this on an old mugshot in the library.
+He had taken the [bus][] into town to check out a few books on woodworking and got distracted by the True Crime section.
+He found this mugshot in a book titled _Crooks like Us_ that was published in Sydney.
+He liked how cities were named after women, or how women were named after cities, whichever was true.
+
+The man in the picture's eyes were tightly shut, as though he'd just come into the brightness of day after being dark inside for a long time.
+His head was tilted up and slightly to the right.
+He was wearing a short light tie with hash marks, and a pinstripe suit.
+Paul wished the [photograph][] was in color.
+He was standing in front of a plain brown wall covered in fabric.
+
+The man's eyes were not so tightly shut as Paul first thought.
+His eyebrows lifted away from the eyes, giving the man a bemused look.
+His mouth was slightly opened in what seemed to Paul like a grin.
+This was accentuated by the man's ears, which were large.
+Paul wasn't sure why the ears made the man look happier.
+He wondered what crime he had committed.
+
+Above the man's head was written [_T. BEDE.22.11.28 / 203 A_.][emilia]
+_THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES_ was written over his suit, directly below his ribcage.
+
+[emilia]: http://emiliaphillips.com/books/signaletics/
+[bus]: boy_bus.html
+[photograph]: about-the-author.html