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authorCase Duckworth2015-04-18 13:59:29 -0700
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2title: Autocento of the breakfast table
3subtitle: _abstract_
4genre: prose
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6id: abstract
7toc: abstract
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9project:
10 title: Front matter
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14Technology has utterly changed the ways in which we interact with ourselves, society, and nature.
15Ways of thinking and collaborating thought all-but-impossible less than a generation ago have become commonplace, even necessary, in the Internet age.
16_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.
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18As a website, _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is at first enigmatic.
19The 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.
20In 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.
21In 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.
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23The Internet is the perfect medium for a text like _Autocento of the breakfast table_.
24Scott 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.
25The Web, envisioned this way, removes the arbitrary structuring of page order, publishing imprints, and temporality that print technology is bounded by.
26With 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.
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28The 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.”
29These 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.
30To put it another way, we’re all making pots out of the same clay, but each one is irrevocably ours.
31The cento of _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is the project itself, in its entirety; I am a composite of everything I’ve done.
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33_Case Duckworth_
34_Flagstaff, 2015_
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36[author]: about_author.html
37[Will Deep Links Ever Truly Be Deep?]:
38[_hapax legomenon_]: hapax.html