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2title: Wallpaper
3genre: prose
4
5id: wallpaper
6toc: "Wallpaper"
7
8project:
9 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
10 class: paul
11 order: 31
12 next:
13 - title: Punch
14 link: punch
15 - title: Window
16 link: window
17 prev:
18 - title: X-ray
19 link: x-ray
20 - title: Underwear
21 link: underwear
22...
23
24He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.
25His hatchet was in there, and his axe.
26He didn't want to face them.
27His papers, he decided, could wait in the top drawer for a while before being looked at again.
28The pain medication made him loopy.
29He couldn't think as well as he was used to, which wasn't well to begin with.
30Even saying his thoughts out loud, it was as though they were on the [TV in the next room][].
31Someone was cheering.
32They had just won a car.
33
34His mother came in with lunch on a tray.
35It was hot tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich.
36"What have you been doing all day" she asked "you haven't just been staring at the wall have you?"
37He had been staring at the wall most of the day.
38[The wall without the window on it, with the woodgrain wallpaper.][]
39"No" he said.
40"What have you been doing then" she asked setting the tray down on his lap.
41He sat up and almost upset it, but she caught it before it spilled anything.
42"Composing in my head" he lied. "A novel of my experience."
43
44"[Do you really think anyone will want to read about you][do you]" she asked and walked out of the room.
45
46[TV in the next room]: statements-frag.html
47[The wall without the window on it, with the woodgrain wallpaper.]: in-bed.html
48[do you]: http://www.confederacyofdunces.com/