<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> <title>Leaf | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css"> <script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> </head> <body id="leaf" class="paul"> <article class="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">Leaf</h1> <div class="header-extra"> </div> </header> <section class="content prose"> <p>He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack. He exhaled looking out of the window. He hoped to see a bird fly by, maybe a blue jay or raven. <a href="last-passenger.html">No bird did</a>. He inhaled. He exhaled again in a way that could <a href="last-bastion.html">only be classified</a> as a sigh. He sat down at his writing desk. He began shuffling through what he’d written, trying to find some sort of pattern.</p> <p>“<em>Each piece of paper—each leaf—</em>” at this he smiled—“<em>is like a tree in the forest.</em>” He was writing as he thought aloud. “<em>I, as the artist, as the <strong>writer</strong>, must select which to use, chop down those trees, bring them back to my shed and</em>—and—” he frowned as he realized the only end to this <a href="the-night-we-met.html">metaphor was fire</a>. He ran his fingers through his hair in a self-soothing gesture.</p> <p>“I need to build some furniture” he thought.</p> </section> </article> <a id="textlink" title="Source file" href="text/leaf.txt">¶</a> <nav> <div class="anchors"> <a href="backlinks/leaf.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> φ </a> <a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">◊</a> <a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">ξ</a> </div> <a class="prevlink" href="axe.html" title="Previous article in Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"> Axe </a> <a class="prevlink" href="joke.html" title="Previous article in Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"> Joke </a> <a class="nextlink" href="writing.html" title="Next article in Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"> Writing </a> <a class="nextlink" href="leg.html" title="Next article in Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"> Leg </a> </nav> </body> </html>