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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Swear | ||
| 3 | genre: prose | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: swear | ||
| 6 | toc: "Swear" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
| 10 | class: paul | ||
| 11 | order: 25 | ||
| 12 | next: | ||
| 13 | - title: Options | ||
| 14 | link: options | ||
| 15 | - title: Tapestry | ||
| 16 | link: tapestry | ||
| 17 | prev: | ||
| 18 | - title: Reports | ||
| 19 | link: reports | ||
| 20 | - title: Stump | ||
| 21 | link: stump | ||
| 22 | ... | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | > [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME][] | ||
| 25 | > | ||
| 26 | > First, a history: I was writing my | ||
| 27 | > thoughts in a book. I got a typewriter | ||
| 28 | > and typing things in a book | ||
| 29 | > became impossible. I began typing | ||
| 30 | > on 4x6 notecards. I ran out of | ||
| 31 | > ribbon in my typewriter. I wrote | ||
| 32 | > on the 4x6 notecards. I bought a | ||
| 33 | > new ribbon and new notecards. Now | ||
| 34 | > again I am typing on notecards. | ||
| 35 | > | ||
| 36 | > What have I been typing? | ||
| 37 | > Thoughts, impressions maybe, a log | ||
| 38 | > of changes to my mental state. I | ||
| 39 | > waited long enough and I began | ||
| 40 | > recording them in the same way. If | ||
| 41 | > I wait longer the ribbon will run | ||
| 42 | > out again and I'll write again, on | ||
| 43 | > notecards or in my book. The same | ||
| 44 | > thoughts in different bodies. | ||
| 45 | > | ||
| 46 | > That's what it means, "Every | ||
| 47 | > thing changes or everything stays | ||
| 48 | > the same." It might as well be | ||
| 49 | > "and." Local differences add up to | ||
| 50 | > global identities. It's a [hoop][], | ||
| 51 | > right? And we keep going around | ||
| 52 | > and we think it's flat but it's | ||
| 53 | > round like the Earth. | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 | |||
| 56 | Paul pushed his chair away from the [Writing Desk][] and stared at the notecard. | ||
| 57 | He stood up, knocked his head on the lightbulb, swore. | ||
| 58 | He pulled the notecard from his typewriter and crumpled it up with his left hand. | ||
| 59 | With his right hand he reached in his pocket and pulled out his cigarettes. | ||
| 60 | He put one in his mouth, threw the paper in the corner, grabbed his axe, went out into the woods. | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME]: planks.html | ||
| 63 | [hoop]: ourobors_memory.html | ||
| 64 | [Writing Desk]: finding-the-lion.html | ||