Revise abstract & add to index.html

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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 <header>
 <!-- title -->
 <h1 class="title">Autocento of the breakfast table</h1>
-<h1 class="subtitle">abstract</h1>
+<h1 class="subtitle"><em>abstract</em></h1>
 
 <div class="header-extra">
 
@@ -35,21 +35,12 @@
 
 
 <section class="content prose">
-<section id="brief-description" class="level2">
-<h2>Brief Description</h2>
-<p><em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> is my Master’s thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. I’ve compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole. To make this easier than collating everything by hand, I’ve relied on a process that leverages open-source technologies to publish my work onto a web platform.</p>
-</section>
-<section id="things-to-notice" class="level2">
-<h2>Things to notice</h2>
-<p>Take a look around the site. See how it’s navigable: there are links within each article to other articles and to the wider web, mapping common images, themes, or inspirations; there’s also navigation links at the bottom of each page:</p>
-<ul>
-<li>The <strong>φ</strong> shows you the backlinks to each page.</li>
-<li>The <strong>◊</strong> takes you back to the cover of the project, to start over.</li>
-<li>The <strong>ξ</strong> takes you to a random article in the project.</li>
-<li>Some pages also have <em>previous</em> and <em>next</em> links. These take you to other articles in their original project-order. It’s another way to navigate the page.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Check out my <a href="process.html">process narrative</a> for the technical details of putting this site together, or see my <a href="about.html">about page</a> for an artist’s statement.</p>
-</section>
+<p>Technology has utterly changed the ways in which we interact with ourselves, society, and nature. Ways of thinking and collaborating thought all-but-impossible less than a generation ago have become commonplace, even necessary, in the Internet age. <em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> is an attempt to leverage the power of the Internet to capture the <a href="about_author.html">author</a>’s inspiration, composition, and revision processes all at one time, through a linked hypertext.</p>
+<p>As a website, <em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> is at first enigmatic. The reader is unable to merely consume the text; they must actively interact with it—by clicking links, in this case—in order to create a meaning. In doing so, the reader empathetically engages with the author’s published self, journeying with the author or around the author to create a text that is utterly unique to the moment it’s being read. In a sense, the reader is not merely a reader, but a user of the text in front of them: they can get as much or as little from it as they are willing.</p>
+<p>The Internet is the perfect medium for a text like <em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em>. Scott Rosenberg, in his essay “[Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep?][]” on Medium, notes that “originally, the exact purpose of links was” to make “conceptual links” and connect “disparate thoughts” across a democratic space—the Web. The Web, envisioned this way, removes the arbitrary structuring of page order, publishing imprints, and temporality that print technology is bounded by. With a Web-like platform, ideas can live of themselves, by themselves, and for themselves: instead of ordering ideas by some value system, we can organically link them together by similarities.</p>
+<p>The ideas that <em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> works with and links together are the [<em>hapax legomenon</em>][], or “something said only once,” and the <em>cento</em>, or “patchwork garment.” These two ideas are held in a kind of balance when expanded to the scale of a poem: while every word has necessarily been said before, every thought unoriginal, the author can hope to arrange these unoriginal thoughts into their own shapes. To put it another way, we’re all making pots out of the same clay, but each one is irrevocably ours. The cento of <em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> is the project itself, in its entirety; I am a composite of everything I’ve done.</p>
+<p><em>Case Duckworth</em> <em>Flagstaff, 2015</em></p>
+<p>[Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep?]: [<em>hapax legomenon</em>]: hapax.html</p>
 </section>
 </article>
 <nav>
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
             <section class="content">
                 <ul>
                     <li><a href="about.html">About this project</a>.</li>
+                    <li><a href="abstract.html">Abstract</a>.</li>
                     <li>Appendices of
                         <ul class="commaed">
                             <li>
@@ -1,34 +1,38 @@
 ---
 title: Autocento of the breakfast table
-subtitle: abstract
+subtitle: _abstract_
 genre: prose
 
 id: abstract
-toc: "_abstract_"
+toc: abstract
 
 project:
     title: Front matter
     class: front-matter
 ...
 
-## Brief Description
+Technology has utterly changed the ways in which we interact with ourselves, society, and nature.
+Ways of thinking and collaborating thought all-but-impossible less than a generation ago have become commonplace, even necessary, in the Internet age.
+_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is an attempt to leverage the power of the Internet to capture the [author][]’s inspiration, composition, and revision processes all at one time, through a linked hypertext.
 
-_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is my Master's thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession.
-I've compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole.
-To make this easier than collating everything by hand, I've relied on a process that leverages open-source technologies to publish my work onto a web platform.
+As a website, _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is at first enigmatic.
+The reader is unable to merely consume the text; they must actively interact with it---by clicking links, in this case---in order to create a meaning.
+In doing so, the reader empathetically engages with the author’s published self, journeying with the author or around the author to create a text that is utterly unique to the moment it’s being read.
+In a sense, the reader is not merely a reader, but a user of the text in front of them: they can get as much or as little from it as they are willing.
 
-## Things to notice
+The Internet is the perfect medium for a text like _Autocento of the breakfast table_.
+Scott Rosenberg, in his essay “[Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep?][]” on Medium, notes that “originally, the exact purpose of links was” to make “conceptual links” and connect “disparate thoughts” across a democratic space---the Web.
+The Web, envisioned this way, removes the arbitrary structuring of page order, publishing imprints, and temporality that print technology is bounded by.
+With a Web-like platform, ideas can live of themselves, by themselves, and for themselves: instead of ordering ideas by some value system, we can organically link them together by similarities.
 
-Take a look around the site.
-See how it's navigable: there are links within each article to other articles and to the wider web, mapping common images, themes, or inspirations;
-  there's also navigation links at the bottom of each page:
+The ideas that _Autocento of the breakfast table_ works with and links together are the [_hapax legomenon_][], or “something said only once,” and the _cento_, or “patchwork garment.”
+These two ideas are held in a kind of balance when expanded to the scale of a poem: while every word has necessarily been said before, every thought unoriginal, the author can hope to arrange these unoriginal thoughts into their own shapes.
+To put it another way, we’re all making pots out of the same clay, but each one is irrevocably ours.
+The cento of _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is the project itself, in its entirety; I am a composite of everything I’ve done.
 
-- The **&phi;** shows you the backlinks to each page.
-- The **&loz;** takes you back to the cover of the project, to start over.
-- The **&xi;** takes you to a random article in the project.
-- Some pages also have _previous_ and _next_ links.  These take you to other articles in their original project-order.  It's another way to navigate the page.
+_Case Duckworth_
+_Flagstaff, 2015_
 
-Check out my [process narrative][] for the technical details of putting this site together, or see my [about page][] for an artist's statement.
-
-[process narrative]: process.html
-[about page]: about.html
+[author]: about_author.html
+[Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep?]:
+[_hapax legomenon_]: hapax.html
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 title: How it happened
-genre: 'verse'
+genre: verse
 
 id: howithappened
 toc: "How it happened"