diff options
author | Case Duckworth | 2015-04-20 12:11:04 -0700 |
---|---|---|
committer | Case Duckworth | 2015-04-20 12:11:04 -0700 |
commit | bede40c851fb0cf0034e0111c8522d820e70e90f (patch) | |
tree | 850dda931c6f3042549ec6dfb3e0255a26e59aae /shipwright.html | |
parent | Merge branch 'gh-pages' of https://github.com/duckwork/autocento into gh-pages (diff) | |
download | autocento-bede40c851fb0cf0034e0111c8522d820e70e90f.tar.gz autocento-bede40c851fb0cf0034e0111c8522d820e70e90f.zip |
Add link to text source
Diffstat (limited to 'shipwright.html')
-rw-r--r-- | shipwright.html | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/shipwright.html b/shipwright.html index eeaa1b7..1460413 100644 --- a/shipwright.html +++ b/shipwright.html | |||
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@ | |||
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> | 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> | 39 | </section> |
40 | </article> | 40 | </article> |
41 | |||
42 | <a id="textlink" title="Source file" href="text/shipwright.txt">¶</a> | ||
43 | |||
41 | <nav> | 44 | <nav> |
42 | <div class="anchors"> | 45 | <div class="anchors"> |
43 | <a href="backlinks/shipwright.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> | 46 | <a href="backlinks/shipwright.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> |