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/stump.txt | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/stump.txt (limited to 'src/stump.txt') diff --git a/src/stump.txt b/src/stump.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aae6084 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/stump.txt @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: Stump +genre: prose + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + css: paul + order: 34 + next: + - title: Early + link: early + - title: Swear + link: swear + previous: + - title: Joke + link: joke + - title: Stagnant + link: stagnant +... + +He walked into the woods for the first time in months. It was a bright summer +day but under the canopy of leaves it was cool and quiet and twilight. There +was no sound but his footsteps, his breathing. Instead of an axe, his right +hand clutched his notebook. His left was in his pocket. A pencil perched +behind his ear. + +He walked aimlessly until coming over a short rise he saw a stump. He +recognized his handiwork in the way the stump made a kind of chair back---flat +until the axe had gone through far enough, then a frayed edge like a torn +page. Paul walked over to the stump and sat down. + +He looked up and tried to find a pattern in the placement of the trees. There +was none. They grew randomly, beginning nowhere and ending in the same place. +A squirrel ran down one and up another for no reason. He opened his notebook +and took his pencil from his ear but could think of nothing to write. + +A crow called hoarsely to another, something important. Paul looked up but +could not see the black bird in the leaves of the trees. He looked back down +to the cream-colored pages of his notebook. + +He was surprised that he'd written _YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART_. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81