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authorCase Duckworth2015-03-25 21:49:45 -0700
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Flatten directory structure
All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /.
I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make
linking easier.  I'm still thinking about whether I should
move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into
an 'assets' folder of some sort.  We'll see.
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2title: Last bastion
3id: last-bastion
4genre: verse
5
6project:
7 title: Stark Raving
8 class: stark
9 order: 10
10 next:
11 - title: AMBER alert
12 link: amber-alert
13 - title: Initial conditions
14 link: initial-conditions
15 prev:
16 - title: The Sixteenth Chapel
17 link: sixteenth-chapel.txt
18 - title: Boy on the bus
19 link: boy_bus
20...
21
22Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle \
23down the cold and darkened highways of the heart. \
24They are the last personality left. They are [the meek \
25who inherited the heart][meek], what was left of it.\
26
27Without food to cook in new or exciting ways \
28nor audience to gasp and cackle, the chefs \
29of the heart quietly waste away while staring \
30doe-eyed into now-empty Safeway windows \
31checking under the dusty produce shelves \
32for something they pray the [rats][] haven't found yet.
33
34Years ago, the economy of the heart boomed \
35and there was food everywhere. Produce \
36piled high in pyramids of devotion, meat in \
37gilded glass cases opulent under fluorescence, \
38dairy which ran like the [mythical river][] toward \
39cereals hot and cold. Under it all, thrumming \
40like great stone wheels on sand under a hot sun \
41near a river where reeds sang in the wind \
42the heart produced and gave reward for hard labor.
43
44No one knows when it all ended. No one can say \
45if it was the heart that dried up or the heart's supply. \
46Either way, food of the heart became scarcer and scarcer. \
47People began dying, not of starvation \
48but of a certain facial expression that could only \
49be described as desperation. Now \
50all that are left are the celebrity chefs, last bastion \
51of a once mighty empire of the [heart \
52are reduced to husks][heart] blown dry by wind.
53
54[meek]: http://biblehub.com/matthew/5-5.htm
55[rats]: in-bed.html
56[mythical river]: music-433.html
57[heart]: sense-of-it.html