From 96ab7a3ce522f38a768e67c73021bf1071832a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:04:05 -0700 Subject: Add Paul; move source files to src/ --- src/building.txt | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/building.txt (limited to 'src/building.txt') diff --git a/src/building.txt b/src/building.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4ceb244 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/building.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +title: Building +genre: prose + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + css: paul + order: 28 + next: + - title: Yellow + link: yellow + - title: Cereal + link: cereal + previous: + - title: Stagnant + link: stagnant + - title: Axe + link: axe +... + +_ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building. The +ceiling is_---here he put his eraser to his bottom lip, thinking. He crossed +out _~~The ceiling is.~~_ _The floor is reality and the ceiling is +~~aspiration~~ ~~desire~~ that which is desired. CRAFT is building a chair +from wood. ART is using the wood as a substrate for an emotional message to a +future person, the READER / VIEWER._ + +_The important thing is they are both made of wood. The important thing is +they were both, at one point, alive natural things that grew and changed and +pushed their way out of the dirt into the air. They formed buildings out of +the air. They didn't even try._ + +_What separates us from them, the trees? We have to try. We must labor to +create our ART, our buildings of air. We lay them out brick by brick, we +build them up by disintegrating trees and forming them again into what they +were before. Why must we do this? are there any advantages to this human +method?_ + +_Our advantage is memory. Our advantage is the reaching-out over space and +time to others with our words, our ART. Our buildings last for generations, +and after they are demolished they are written about, photographs are taken, +we **remember**. The act of memory is our only ART._ -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81