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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Stagnant | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: stagnant | ||
6 | toc: "Stagnant" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
9 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
10 | class: paul | ||
11 | order: 27 | ||
12 | next: | ||
13 | - title: Building | ||
14 | link: building | ||
15 | - title: Stump | ||
16 | link: stump | ||
17 | prev: | ||
18 | - title: Options | ||
19 | link: options | ||
20 | - title: Snow | ||
21 | link: snow | ||
22 | ... | ||
23 | |||
24 | "Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read" Paul thought to himself on the bus ride to work. | ||
25 | His thoughts couldn't become real to him because he didn't want to look insane to everyone else on the bus. | ||
26 | His thoughts came to him like someone [yelling over a hard wind][]. | ||
27 | He was trying to write them on his memory but the act of writing was easier and more immediate than that of listening. | ||
28 | He was afraid that when he looked at his memory later he wouldn't be able to read what was written. | ||
29 | |||
30 | "Thoughts are like the wind outside a moving bus" he thought "or rather the bus is a brain slamming into columns of stagnant air causing them to whistle past in a confusion of something." | ||
31 | He could barely hear the voice [yelling to him over the wind][]. | ||
32 | "Speak up" he thought to the voice, then remembered it was his own. | ||
33 | He wished he'd remembered a book to read. | ||
34 | |||
35 | He looked at his hands to pass the time. | ||
36 | [They were dry in the winter air][] that had seeped its way into the bus. | ||
37 | He tried to figure out how many hours they would make it before cracking and bleeding. | ||
38 | "Maybe three or four" he thought accidentally out loud. | ||
39 | He looked around expecting stares from everyone on the seat. | ||
40 | [He was surprised that he was the only one on the bus.][] | ||
41 | |||
42 | [He was surprised that he was the only one on the bus.]: stayed-on-the-bus.html | ||
43 | [yelling over a hard wind]: sense-of-it.html | ||
44 | [They were dry in the winter air]: hands.html | ||
45 | [yelling to him over the wind]: cold-wind.html | ||