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+title: Snow
+genre: prose
+
+id: snow
+toc: "Snow"
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 23
+    next:
+    - title: Reports
+      link: reports
+    - title: Stagnant
+      link: stagnant
+    prev:
+    - title: Man
+      link: man
+    - title: Shed
+      link: shed
+...
+
+_[I don't care if they burn][]_ he wrote on his last blank notecard.
+He'd have to go to the Office Supply Store tomorrow after work.
+
+He looked at what he'd written.
+He'd been thinking about this for a while, felt the frustration build slowly like a [thundercloud][] in the back of his mind.
+He thought he should write something else on the card, but everything he thought of seemed too confessional or too real compromising.
+[He didn't want anyone, not even the notecards, to know what he was thinking.][thinking]
+He decided to try for more of an interview with the paper.
+
+_Why?_  asked the notecard.
+_Because there is nothing important on any of them_ he wrote back.
+_What do you mean?
+You have some good stuff in that top drawer there._
+He looked in the top drawer.
+It was stuffed full of notecards in no organization.
+He could see bits and pieces of thoughts like leaves crunched underfoot in autumn.
+_It will take so much organization_ he wrote.
+
+_Why is organization important?
+Remember the trees, [how they formed rows][] without trying.
+No matter how the ideas fall, they make something.
+[The snow][] [does that too][]_ he wrote.
+_It doesn't try to make anything but it does._
+
+_No the snow is different_ the notecard was annoyed.
+_The snow is a blank canvas that humans build into shapes or doppelgangers.
+It makes nothing on its own._
+
+[I don't care if they burn]: fire.html
+[thundercloud]: serengeti.html
+[thinking]: lappel-du-vide.html
+[how they formed rows]: axe.html
+[The snow]: one-hundred-lines.html
+[does that too]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html