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+title: Tapestry
+genre: prose
+
+id: tapestry
+toc: "Tapestry"
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 17
+    next:
+    - title: Window
+      link: window
+    - title: Toilet
+      link: toilet
+    prev:
+    - title: Phone
+      link: phone
+    - title: Swear
+      link: swear
+...
+
+_Apparently typewriters need ribbon.
+Apparently ribbon is incredibly hard to find anymore because no one uses typewriters.
+Apparently I am writing my hymns from now on._
+So he was back to calling his notes "hymns."
+He looked up "hymns" in the dictionary.
+It said that a hymn was "an ode or song of praise or adoration."
+Praise or adoration to what? he asked himself.
+He thought maybe furniture.
+There was still a lot of notfurniture in what he was again calling his Writing Shack.
+
+The dictionary also had this to say about "hymn": that it was possibly related to the old Greek word for "[weave][]."
+"[Weave what][]" Paul wondered to himself.
+He wrote this down on a new notecard.
+_Apparently "hymn" means weave somehow.
+Or it used to.
+Or its cousin did.
+What is it weaving?
+Who is it weaving for?
+I remember in school we talked about Odysseus and his wife Penelope, who wove a tapestry every day just to take it apart at night.
+I forget why._
+
+_Maybe she wove the tapestry for Odysseus.
+Maybe she wove it for herself.
+What did she weave it of?
+[Memory][], maybe?
+[Or dream][]?
+I think these words make a kind of tapestry, or at least the thread it will be made of.
+I will weave a hymn to the gods of Literature, out of fiction.
+My furniture was a try at weaving, but I am shit at furniture.
+So writing it is again._
+
+He wrote _**NOTES FOR A HYMN**_ at the top of this notecard.
+
+[weave]: likingthings.html
+[Weave what]: roughgloves.html
+[Memory]: ouroboros_memory.html
+[Or dream]: in-bed.html