Taking 'A funny place for a piece of brown paper, I mused. ' as a given, does it logically imply 'I thought that the brown paper being there was strange, but unfortunately I put the thought out of my mind and went about my day.'
A funny place for a piece of brown paper, I mused. ###I thought that the brown paper being there was strange, but unfortunately I put the thought out of my mind and went about my day.