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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Writing | ||
3 | genre: prose | ||
4 | |||
5 | id: writing | ||
6 | toc: "Writing" | ||
7 | |||
8 | project: | ||
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 | |||
24 | He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping. | ||
25 | He remembered how to fill it from _[The View from Saturday][]_, which he'd read as a kid. | ||
26 | It had been one of his favorite books. | ||
27 | He 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. | ||
28 | He smiled as he opened the lid on the ink well he'd just bought. | ||
29 | |||
30 | He dipped his pen in the inkwell, screwed the converter piston up, and watched as nothing entered the chamber. | ||
31 | He screwed it back down and up again, while dipping the nib more deeply into the ink well. | ||
32 | He watched as again nothing filled the capsule. | ||
33 | He screwed it down a third time. | ||
34 | His thumb knocked the inkwell over somehow by accident. | ||
35 | |||
36 | As 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 | ||