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/early.txt | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/early.txt (limited to 'src/early.txt') diff --git a/src/early.txt b/src/early.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04ab997 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/early.txt @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +title: Early +genre: prose + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + css: paul + order: 35 + next: + - title: Toothpaste + link: toothpaste + - title: Father + link: father + previous: + - title: Stump + link: stump + - title: Dream + link: dream +... + +_YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home +while his mother watched TV and smoked. Dinner had been chicken and peas with +milk and afterward Paul and his mother sat on opposite ends of the couch. At +intervals she would look sideways at Paul writing. He pretended not to notice. + +_ART = ARTIFICE_ he wrote. _ARTIFICE MEANS UNNATURAL. ARTIFICE MEANS BUILT. +TO BUILD MEANS TO FIND A PATTERN & FIND A PATTERN IS WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT._ He +thought about this while someone else won a car. + +"Do you think humans are good at finding patterns because we are hunters" he +asked his mother. She looked sideways at him and said "Sure Paul." "Early on +in our evolution we were hunters right? And to hunt we had to see the +patterns in seemingly random events, like where the gazelle went each year" +"Paul I'm trying to watch TV. If you're going to write this stuff go do it in +your room you're distracting." Paul got up and went to his room and lay down +on his bed. + +"If the gazelle went to the same place every year" he thought "did they know +the pattern too? Or was it random for them, did they think each year 'This +seems like a good spot let's graze here' without knowing?" + +He wrote _PATTERN = MEMORY_ in his notebook. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81