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2title: Writing
3genre: prose
4
5id: writing
6toc: "Writing"
7
8project:
9 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
10 class: paul
11 order: 7
12 next:
13 - title: Notes
14 link: notes
15 - title: X-ray
16 link: x-ray
17 prev:
18 - title: Leaf
19 link: leaf
20 - title: Window
21 link: window
22...
23
24He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.
25He remembered how to fill it from _[The View from Saturday][]_, which he'd read as a kid.
26It had been one of his favorite books.
27He remembered the [heart][] puzzle they completed, the origin of the word "posh," and most of all his fourth-grade teacher [Ms. (Mrs? He could never remember)][ms] Samovar.
28He smiled as he opened the lid on the ink well he'd just bought.
29
30He dipped his pen in the inkwell, screwed the converter piston up, and watched as nothing entered the chamber.
31He screwed it back down and up again, while dipping the nib more deeply into the ink well.
32He watched as again nothing filled the capsule.
33He screwed it down a third time.
34His thumb knocked the inkwell over somehow by accident.
35
36As he [swore][], stood up and away from the table, and went into the house proper for paper towels, he resolved to buy a typewriter.
37
38[ms]: telemarketer.html
39[The View from Saturday]: http://www.elkonigsburg.com/
40[swore]: swear.html
41[heart]: swansong-alt.html