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title: Tapestry
genre: prose
project:
title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
css: paul
order: 17
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_Apparently typewriters need ribbon. Apparently ribbon is incredibly hard to
find anymore because no one uses typewriters. Apparently I am writing my
hymns from now on._ So he was back to calling his notes "hymns." He looked
up "hymns" in the dictionary. It said that a hymn was "an ode or song of
praise or adoration." Praise or adoration to what? he asked himself. He
thought maybe furniture. There was still a lot of notfurniture in what he was
again calling his Writing Shack.
The dictionary also had this to say about "hymn": that it was possibly related
to the old Greek word for "weave." "Weave what" Paul wondered to himself. He
wrote this down on a new notecard. _Apparently "hymn" means weave somehow.
Or it used to. Or its cousin did. What is it weaving? Who is it weaving for?
I remember in school we talked about Odysseus and his wife Penelope, who wove
a tapestry every day just to take it apart at night. I forget why._
_Maybe she wove the tapestry for Odysseus. Maybe she wove it for herself.
What did she weave it of? Memory, maybe? Or dream? I think these words make
a kind of tapestry, or at least the thread it will be made of. I will weave a
hymn to the gods of Literature, out of fiction. My furniture was a try at
weaving, but I am shit at furniture. So writing it is again._
He wrote _**NOTES FOR A HYMN**_ at the top of this notecard.
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