summary refs log tree commit diff stats
path: root/shipwright.html
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorCase Duckworth2015-04-14 18:09:55 -0700
committerCase Duckworth2015-04-14 18:09:55 -0700
commit08fd8e95dccb91d0495a50d1009f85cb80cfad65 (patch)
tree9accf8a6e9b1f836e3c7c7b5437d11351545a07e /shipwright.html
parentChange file hierarchy and rewrite makefile (diff)
downloadautocento-0af6ad9f9bc07c4a922b00b47c48ef1104ed5037.tar.gz
autocento-0af6ad9f9bc07c4a922b00b47c48ef1104ed5037.zip
First compile in v1.0.0 v1.0.0
Diffstat (limited to 'shipwright.html')
-rw-r--r--shipwright.html62
1 files changed, 62 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/shipwright.html b/shipwright.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eeaa1b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/shipwright.html
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
1<!DOCTYPE html>
2<!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE -->
3<!-- vim: fdm=indent
4-->
5<html lang="en">
6<head>
7<meta charset="utf-8">
8<meta name="generator" content="pandoc">
9<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
10<meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth">
11
12<title>The shipwright | Autocento of the breakfast table</title>
13<link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" />
14
15<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css">
16<script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
17<script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script>
18
19<!--[if lt IE 9]>
20<script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script>
21<![endif]-->
22</head>
23<body id="shipwright" class="elegies">
24
25<article class="container">
26<header>
27<!-- title -->
28<h1 class="title">The shipwright</h1>
29
30
31<div class="header-extra">
32
33</div>
34</header>
35
36
37<section class="content verse">
38<p><span class="line">He builds a ship as if it were the last thing</span><span class="line">holding him together, as if, when he stops,</span><span class="line">his body will fall onto the plate-glass water</span><span class="line">and shatter into sand. To keep his morale up</span><span class="line">he whistles and sings, but the wind whistles <a href="apollo11.html">louder</a></span><span class="line">and taunts him: Your ship will build itself</span><span class="line">if you throw yourself into the sea; time</span><span class="line">has a way of growing your beard for you.</span><span class="line">Soon, you’ll find yourself on a rocking chair</span><span class="line">on some porch made from your ship’s timbers.</span><span class="line">The window behind you is made from a sail, thick</span><span class="line">canvas, and no one inside will hear your calling</span><span class="line">for milk or a chamberpot. Your children</span><span class="line">will have all sailed to the New World and left you.</span><span class="line">But he tries not to listen, continues to hammer</span><span class="line">nail after nail into timber after timber,</span><span class="line">but the wind <a href="theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html">finally blows</a> him into the growling ocean</span><span class="line">and the ship falls apart on its own.</span></p>
39</section>
40</article>
41<nav>
42<div class="anchors">
43<a href="backlinks/shipwright.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page">
44&phi;
45</a>
46<a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">&loz;</a>
47<a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">&xi;</a>
48</div>
49
50<a class="prevlink" href="serengeti.html"
51title="Previous article in Elegies for alternate selves">
52Serengeti
53</a>
54
55<a class="nextlink" href="spittle.html"
56title="Next article in Elegies for alternate selves">
57Spittle
58</a>
59</nav>
60
61</body>
62</html>