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authorCase Duckworth2015-03-01 18:07:48 -0700
committerCase Duckworth2015-03-01 18:07:48 -0700
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Fix typographical problems in src/
-rw-r--r--src/arspoetica.txt6
-rw-r--r--src/i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.txt23
-rw-r--r--src/january.txt2
-rw-r--r--src/last-passenger.txt2
-rw-r--r--src/telemarketer.txt2
-rw-r--r--src/words-meaning.txt2
-rw-r--r--src/worse-looking-over.txt6
7 files changed, 26 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/src/arspoetica.txt b/src/arspoetica.txt index 090b072..22f6240 100644 --- a/src/arspoetica.txt +++ b/src/arspoetica.txt
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ What is poetry?
19Inasmuch as life is, so is poetry. 19Inasmuch as life is, so is poetry.
20Here is the problem: life is very big and complex. 20Here is the problem: life is very big and complex.
21Human beings are neither. 21Human beings are neither.
22We are small, simple beings that don’t want to know all of the myriad interactions happening all around us, within us, as a part of us, all the hours of every day. 22We are small, simple beings that don't want to know all of the myriad interactions happening all around us, within us, as a part of us, all the hours of every day.
23We much prefer knowing only that which is just in front of our faces, staring us back with a look of utter contempt. 23We much prefer knowing only that which is just in front of our faces, staring us back with a look of utter contempt.
24This is why many people are depressed. 24This is why many people are depressed.
25 25
26Poetry is an attempt made by some to open up our field of view, to maybe check on something else that isn’t staring us in the face so contemptibly. 26Poetry is an attempt made by some to open up our field of view, to maybe check on something else that isn't staring us in the face so contemptibly.
27Maybe something else is smiling at us, we think. 27Maybe something else is smiling at us, we think.
28So we write poetry to force ourselves to look away from the [mirror][] of our existence to see something else. 28So we write poetry to force ourselves to look away from the [mirror][] of our existence to see something else.
29 29
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ What this means is: a poem should be self-extracting.
39It should be a rare vanilla in the bottle, waiting only for someone to open it and sniff it and suddenly there they are, in the orchid that vanilla came from, in the tropical land where it grew next to its brothers and sister vanilla plants. 39It should be a rare vanilla in the bottle, waiting only for someone to open it and sniff it and suddenly there they are, in the orchid that vanilla came from, in the tropical land where it grew next to its brothers and sister vanilla plants.
40They feel the pain of having their children taken from them. 40They feel the pain of having their children taken from them.
41A good poem leaves a feeling of loss and of intense beauty. 41A good poem leaves a feeling of loss and of intense beauty.
42The reader does nothing to achieve thisthey are merely the receptacle of the feeling that the poem forces onto them. 42The reader does nothing to achieve this---they are merely the receptacle of the feeling that the poem forces onto them.
43In a way, poetry is a crime. 43In a way, poetry is a crime.
44But it is the most beautiful crime on this crime-ridden earth. 44But it is the most beautiful crime on this crime-ridden earth.
45 45
diff --git a/src/i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.txt b/src/i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.txt index ad9a1c1..ca67229 100644 --- a/src/i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.txt +++ b/src/i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.txt
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@ project:
7 css: autocento 7 css: autocento
8... 8...
9 9
10I wanted to tell you something in order to \ 10I wanted to tell you something in order [to][] \
11explain the way I feel about the Universe, \ 11explain the way I feel about the [Universe][], \
12its workings, etc. But I couldn't yesterday \ 12its workings, etc. But I couldn't [yesterday][] \
13---I'm sorry---I wanted only to ball \ 13---I'm sorry---I wanted only to [ball][] \
14myself up and cry all day. It was the sixteenth \ 14myself up and cry all day. It was the [sixteenth][] \
15day in a row this happened to me, and to be 15day in a row this happened to me, and to [be][]
16 16
17more than two weeks waiting to cry is, \ 17more than two weeks waiting to cry is, \
18especially when, the whole time, I wasn't able to, \ 18especially when, the whole time, I wasn't able to, \
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ times, and all you can think is, "Some sixteenth \
32birthday! Maybe I will go die in a hole." Yesterday, \ 32birthday! Maybe I will go die in a hole." Yesterday, \
33at times like this, is a luxury the cruel Universe \ 33at times like this, is a luxury the cruel Universe \
34refuses to give you. This is when it's a pain just to _be_, \ 34refuses to give you. This is when it's a pain just to _be_, \
35when that Marvell line about "rolling our stuff into one ball" \ 35when that Marvell line about "[rolling our stuff into one ball][Marvell]" \
36just seems glib, when you don't want one body, let alone two. 36just seems glib, when you don't want one body, let alone two.
37 37
38Something else that may come as a surprise to \ 38Something else that may come as a surprise to \
@@ -52,3 +52,12 @@ and step around it lightly, as I would an exercise ball,
52but the problem is, dear Universe, there's no way I could be \ 52but the problem is, dear Universe, there's no way I could be \
53something as hard as all that, to wake up yesterday \ 53something as hard as all that, to wake up yesterday \
54morning, stretch over my sixteen selves, bound out like a ball. 54morning, stretch over my sixteen selves, bound out like a ball.
55
56[to]: poetry-time.html
57[Universe]: initial-conditions.html
58[yesterday]: exasperated.html
59[ball]: ouroboros_memory.html
60[sixteenth]: sixteenth-chapel.html
61[be]: love-as-god.html
62
63[Marvell]: http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/coy.htm
diff --git a/src/january.txt b/src/january.txt index c715a8a..2b45927 100644 --- a/src/january.txt +++ b/src/january.txt
@@ -51,4 +51,4 @@ with an argument for the white beauty of January.
51 51
52They know it's hard; they say each season \ 52They know it's hard; they say each season \
53has its detractors. One day, they say, the weather \ 53has its detractors. One day, they say, the weather \
54will be controlled - until then, patience in January. 54will be controlled---until then, patience in January.
diff --git a/src/last-passenger.txt b/src/last-passenger.txt index 71d1382..5991ada 100644 --- a/src/last-passenger.txt +++ b/src/last-passenger.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ project:
9 9
10Memory works strangely, spooling its thread \ 10Memory works strangely, spooling its thread \
11over the nails of events barely related, \ 11over the nails of events barely related, \
12creating finally some picture, if were \ 12creating finally some picture, if we're \
13lucky, of a life---but more likely, it knots \ 13lucky, of a life---but more likely, it knots \
14itself, catches on a nail or in our throats \ 14itself, catches on a nail or in our throats \
15that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air. 15that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air.
diff --git a/src/telemarketer.txt b/src/telemarketer.txt index 1837dd9..2953ea0 100644 --- a/src/telemarketer.txt +++ b/src/telemarketer.txt
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ So when Jane said, "Sure, I have nothing better to do," he was thrown completely
39"It's Ms, not Mrs. 39"It's Ms, not Mrs.
40Em ess. 40Em ess.
41Miz. 41Miz.
42No r,' Larry." 42No 'r,' Larry."
43She sounded patient, as if she were used to correcting people about the particulars of her title. 43She sounded patient, as if she were used to correcting people about the particulars of her title.
44But how often can that happen? 44But how often can that happen?
45Larry thought, and he was suddenly deeply confused. 45Larry thought, and he was suddenly deeply confused.
diff --git a/src/words-meaning.txt b/src/words-meaning.txt index 1efe4ba..c0fba74 100644 --- a/src/words-meaning.txt +++ b/src/words-meaning.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Language by definition compartmentalizes reality, sets this bit apart from that
26Most of the time I think of language as limiting, as defining a thing as the [inverse of everything][] is not. 26Most of the time I think of language as limiting, as defining a thing as the [inverse of everything][] is not.
27 27
28In this way, "everything is everything" becomes "everything is nothing," which is another thing I like to say and something that pisses people off. 28In this way, "everything is everything" becomes "everything is nothing," which is another thing I like to say and something that pisses people off.
29To me, infinity and zero are the same, two ways of looking at the same point on the circle–of numbers, of the universe, whatever. 29To me, infinity and zero are the same, two ways of looking at the same point on the circle---of numbers, of the universe, whatever.
30Maybe it's because I wear an analogue watch, and so my view of time is cyclical, or maybe it's some brain trauma I had in vitro, but whatever it is that's how I see the world, because I'm working against the limitations that language sets upon us. 30Maybe it's because I wear an analogue watch, and so my view of time is cyclical, or maybe it's some brain trauma I had in vitro, but whatever it is that's how I see the world, because I'm working against the limitations that language sets upon us.
31I think that's the role of the poet, or of any artist: to take the over-expansive experience of existing and to boil it down, boil and boil away until there is the ultimate concentrate at the center that is what the poem talks around, at, etc., but never of, because it is ultimately made of language and cannot get to it. 31I think that's the role of the poet, or of any artist: to take the over-expansive experience of existing and to boil it down, boil and boil away until there is the ultimate concentrate at the center that is what the poem talks around, at, etc., but never of, because it is ultimately made of language and cannot get to it.
32A poem is getting as close as possible to the speed of light, to absolute zero, to God, while knowing that it can't get all the way there, and never will. 32A poem is getting as close as possible to the speed of light, to absolute zero, to God, while knowing that it can't get all the way there, and never will.
diff --git a/src/worse-looking-over.txt b/src/worse-looking-over.txt index c445216..cf8fe12 100644 --- a/src/worse-looking-over.txt +++ b/src/worse-looking-over.txt
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ and over but they do not listen \
28they think of their children at home \ 28they think of their children at home \
29lying in bed dreaming sweet \ 29lying in bed dreaming sweet \
30childhood one of them is staying over \ 30childhood one of them is staying over \
31at a friends house they are staying \ 31at a friend's house they are staying \
32up late they never want it to be over \ 32up late they never want it to be over \
33not like the man. His life on the radio \ 33not like the man. His life on the radio \
34will be the only one he ever has \ 34will be the only one he ever has \
35his life it is wasted hes being spoken over \ 35his life it is wasted he's being spoken over \
36such pain is in his voice. I wish you \ 36such pain is in his voice. I wish you \
37could hear it. Its something never over. \ 37could hear it. It's something never over. \
38Suffering everywhere always and over it \ 38Suffering everywhere always and over it \
39the same serene murmur of the comfortable \ 39the same serene murmur of the comfortable \
40distracted or worse looking over \ 40distracted or worse looking over \