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 <h2>Introduction</h2>
-<p><em>Autocento <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/abt.html">of the breakfast table</a></em> is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time. Somebody<sup>[citation needed]</sup> once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship. As we write, as we continue writing across our lives, patterns thread themselves through our work: images, certain phrases, preoccupations. This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology of hypertext.</p>
+<p><em>Autocento <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/abt.html">of the breakfast table</a></em> is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time. Somebody<sup>[<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Dealing_with_unsourced_material">citation needed</a></em>]</sup> once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship. As we write, as we continue writing across our lives, patterns thread themselves through our work: images, certain phrases, preoccupations. This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology of hypertext.</p>
+<p>I’m also an MFA candidate at [Northern Arizona University][NAU]. This is my thesis.</p>
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 <h2>Process</h2>
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 <li><a href="table_contents.html">Stark raving</a></li>
 <li><a href="art.html">Buildings out of air</a></li>
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-<p>as well as added new poems, written quite recently. As I’ve compiled them into this project, I’ve linked them together based on common images or language, moving back and forth through time. This should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside.</p>
+<p>as well as added new articles, written quite recently. As I’ve compiled them into this project, I’ve linked them together based on common images or language, moving back and forth through time. This should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside.</p>
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 <h2>Technology</h2>
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 <section id="using-this-site" class="level2">
 <h2>Using this site</h2>
-<p>All of the articles on this site are linked together hypertextually, that is, like a webpage. This means that all you need to do to explore the creative threads linking these articles together is to start clicking links. However, if you find you’re looping around to a lot of the same articles, you can head back to the <a href="index.html">index</a> and click through the titles in order—that poem contains the titles of all the other poems in this project.</p>
+<p>All of the articles on this site are linked together hypertextually (i.e., like a webpage). This means that all you need to do to explore the creative threads linking these articles together is to start clicking links. However, if you find you’re looping around to a lot of the same articles, you can head back to the <a href="index.html">index</a> and click through the titles in order—that article contains the titles of all the other works in this project.</p>
 <p>Alternatively, you can click the lozenge (◊) at the bottom of each page. It’ll take you to a random article in the project, thanks to <a href="https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/js/lozenge.js">this javascript</a>.</p>
-<p>If you want to experience the earlier projects in something resembling the original orders, previous and next links are provided at the bottom of each page, next to the lozenge. Sometimes, there are more than one of each of these—they represent other work I’ve done with hypertextuality.</p>
+<p>If you want to experience the earlier projects in something resembling the original orders, previous and next links are provided at the bottom of each page, next to the lozenge. Sometimes, there are more than one of each of these, or there are none, dependant on the structure of their original project.</p>
+</section>
+<section id="things-still-to-do" class="level2">
+<h2>Things still to do</h2>
+<p><em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> is a work in progress. The first draft is completed, but some revision and aesthetic work remains to be done for me to consider it fully “<a href="published.html">published</a>” (what does this word mean in 2015?). You can see the full list of to-dos by visiting the <a href="https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/issues">issues page</a> of the Github site.</p>
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 _Autocento [of the breakfast table][]_ is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time.
-Somebody^[citation needed]^ once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship.
+Somebody^[_[citation needed][]_]^ once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship.
 As we write, as we continue writing across our lives, patterns thread themselves through our work: images, certain phrases, preoccupations.
 This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology of hypertext.
 
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 <!-- links & footnotes -->
 [of the breakfast table]: http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/abt.html
+[citation needed]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Dealing_with_unsourced_material
 
 [text]: src/index.html