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-rw-r--r--01-epigraph.txt34
-rw-r--r--02-howtoread.txt23
-rw-r--r--08-and.txt29
-rw-r--r--10-apollo11.txt23
-rw-r--r--11-arspoetica.txt6
-rw-r--r--12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.txt8
-rw-r--r--13-boar.txt8
-rw-r--r--14-deadman.txt6
-rw-r--r--15-angeltoabraham.txt4
-rw-r--r--16-feedingtheraven.txt8
-rw-r--r--19-onformalpoetry.txt6
-rw-r--r--21-i-am.txt6
-rw-r--r--22-howithappened.txt6
-rw-r--r--24-lovesong.txt6
-rw-r--r--25-roughgloves.txt8
-rw-r--r--26-ronaldmcdonald.txt6
-rw-r--r--28-moongone.txt6
-rw-r--r--31-mountain.txt6
-rw-r--r--32-serengeti.txt6
-rw-r--r--33-shipwright.txt6
-rw-r--r--34-spittle.txt6
-rw-r--r--35-squirrel.txt6
-rw-r--r--37-swansong.txt8
-rw-r--r--38-telemarketer.txt17
-rw-r--r--40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt6
-rw-r--r--41-todaniel.txt4
-rw-r--r--43-deathstrumpet.txt7
-rw-r--r--98-hez-likingthings.txt52
-rw-r--r--98-hez-movingsideways.txt56
-rw-r--r--98-hez-philosophy.txt31
-rw-r--r--98-hez-prelude.txt12
-rw-r--r--98-hez-problems.txt65
-rw-r--r--98-hez-proverbs.txt40
-rw-r--r--98-hez-purpose-dogs.txt35
-rw-r--r--98-words-meaning.txt50
-rw-r--r--README.html23
-rw-r--r--README.md25
-rw-r--r--_template.html59
38 files changed, 609 insertions, 104 deletions
diff --git a/01-epigraph.txt b/01-epigraph.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1adac49 --- /dev/null +++ b/01-epigraph.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
1---
2title: epigraph
3subtitle: An epigraph
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: Elegies for alternate selves
8 css: elegies
9 order: 1
10 next:
11 title: How to read this
12 link: howtoreadthis
13 prev:
14 title: Death's Trumpet
15 link: deathstrumpet
16...
17
18I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.
19From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future
20beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and
21another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and
22another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and
23Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and
24Attila and a pack of [other lovers][] and queer names and offbeat professions,
25and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these
26figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in
27the crotch of this fig tree, starving to [death][], just because I couldn't
28make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one
29of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there,
30unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one,
31they plopped to the ground at my feet.
32
33[other lovers]: spittle.html
34[death]: deathstrumpet.html
diff --git a/02-howtoread.txt b/02-howtoread.txt index fa3cd0e..2fed4be 100644 --- a/02-howtoread.txt +++ b/02-howtoread.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'How to read this' 2title: How to read this
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3genre: prose
4
5project:
6 title: Elegies for alternate selves
7 css: elegies
8 order: 2
9 next:
10 title: And
11 link: and
12 prev:
13 title: epigraph
14 link: epigraph
4... 15...
5 16
6This book is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be 17This book is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be
@@ -139,7 +150,7 @@ through like a magazine, or at least the way I flip through magazines. I
139think writing is a communication of the self, and I think this is the best way 150think writing is a communication of the self, and I think this is the best way
140to communicate mine in all its multiversity. 151to communicate mine in all its multiversity.
141 152
142[pessoa-exist]: 20.html 153[pessoa-exist]: philosophy.html
143[same river]: 31-mountain.html 154[same river]: mountain.html
144[elegy]: 98-words-meaning.html 155[elegy]: words-meaning.html
145[kernel]: 11-arspoetica.html 156[kernel]: arspoetica.html
diff --git a/08-and.txt b/08-and.txt index 0c2bced..a351665 100644 --- a/08-and.txt +++ b/08-and.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,24 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'And' 2title: And
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3genre: verse
4epigraph: | 4
5"What is your favorite word?" 5epigraph:
6"And. It is so hopeful." 6 content: |
7 "What is your favorite word?"
8 "And. It is so hopeful."
9 attrib: Margaret Atwood
10 link: 'http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/28/margaret-atwood-q-a'
11
12project:
13 title: Elegies for alternate selves
14 css: elegies
15 order: 3
16 next:
17 title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site
18 link: apollo11
19 prev:
20 title: How to read this
21 link: howtoread
7... 22...
8 23
9And you were there in the start of it all \ 24And you were there in the start of it all \
@@ -27,5 +42,5 @@ and I didn't understand him he was far away \
27and I could tell I was missing something important \ 42and I could tell I was missing something important \
28and you nodded to yourself at something he said 43and you nodded to yourself at something he said
29 44
30[church]: 13-boar.html 45[church]: boar.html
31[grieving something gone]: 25-roughgloves.html 46[grieving something gone]: roughgloves.html
diff --git a/10-apollo11.txt b/10-apollo11.txt index 4b6dc62..59dca05 100644 --- a/10-apollo11.txt +++ b/10-apollo11.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,23 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site' 2title: 'On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 10
5genre: 'verse'
6...
7---
8title: On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site
9genre: verse
10
11project:
12 title: Elegies for alternate selves
13 css: elegies
14 order: 4
15 next:
16 title: Ars poetica
17 link: arspoetica
18 prev:
19 title: And
20 link: and
4... 21...
5 22
6So it's the [fucking moon][]. Big deal. As if \ 23So it's the [fucking moon][]. Big deal. As if \
@@ -28,6 +45,6 @@ You keep trying to get away from it but it nuzzles closer \
28and sings you songs that sound like the cooing of a dove \ 45and sings you songs that sound like the cooing of a dove \
29that will only escape again into an empty sky at dawn. 46that will only escape again into an empty sky at dawn.
30 47
31[fucking moon]: 43-deathstrumpet.html 48[fucking moon]: deathstrumpet.html
32[rotten meat]: 25-roughgloves.html 49[rotten meat]: roughgloves.html
33[hearts]: 98-hez-proverbs.html 50[hearts]: proverbs.html
diff --git a/11-arspoetica.txt b/11-arspoetica.txt index a439ddd..b950645 100644 --- a/11-arspoetica.txt +++ b/11-arspoetica.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Ars poetica' 2title: 'Ars poetica'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 11
5genre: 'prose'
4... 6...
5 7
6What is poetry? [Poetry is.][is] Inasmuch as life is, so is poetry. Here is 8What is poetry? [Poetry is.][is] Inasmuch as life is, so is poetry. Here is
@@ -37,5 +39,5 @@ reader does nothing to achieve this—they are merely the receptacle of
37the feeling that the poem forces onto them. In a way, poetry is a crime. 39the feeling that the poem forces onto them. In a way, poetry is a crime.
38But it is the most beautiful crime on this crime-ridden earth. 40But it is the most beautiful crime on this crime-ridden earth.
39 41
40[is]: 98-words-meaning.html 42[is]: words-meaning.html
41[mirror]: 28-moongone.html 43[mirror]: moongone.html
diff --git a/12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.txt b/12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.txt index f3a44ab..a817011 100644 --- a/12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.txt +++ b/12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'The ocean overflows with camels' 2title: 'The ocean overflows with camels'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 12
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6We found your [shirt][] deep in the dark water, \ 8We found your [shirt][] deep in the dark water, \
@@ -24,6 +26,6 @@ flowed from you both like water from the rock. \
24God spoke up, but nobody listened to him. \ 26God spoke up, but nobody listened to him. \
25We hung you up on the line to dry. 27We hung you up on the line to dry.
26 28
27[shirt]: 24-lovesong.html 29[shirt]: lovesong.html
28[left hook]: 25-roughgloves.html 30[left hook]: roughgloves.html
29[father]: 15-angeltoabraham.html 31[father]: angeltoabraham.html
diff --git a/13-boar.txt b/13-boar.txt index 6397bc2..0608ec3 100644 --- a/13-boar.txt +++ b/13-boar.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'The Boar' 2title: 'The Boar'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 13
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6Now the ticking clocks scare me. \ 8Now the ticking clocks scare me. \
@@ -23,6 +25,6 @@ it locked, found the [house][] empty
23 25
24with a note saying, "Condemned." 26with a note saying, "Condemned."
25 27
26[empty]: 31-mountain.html 28[empty]: mountain.html
27[Fifteen feet]: 38-telemarketer.html 29[Fifteen feet]: telemarketer.html
28[house]: 21-i-am.html 30[house]: i-am.html
diff --git a/14-deadman.txt b/14-deadman.txt index b692455..6e134e7 100644 --- a/14-deadman.txt +++ b/14-deadman.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ because he liked to pretend that the rabbit \
21was running from a fox, and the rabbit \ 21was running from a fox, and the rabbit \
22always ended up safe, back in his hole. 22always ended up safe, back in his hole.
23 23
24[hearts]: 98-words-meaning.html 24[hearts]: words-meaning.html
25[they spin]: 28-moongone.html 25[they spin]: moongone.html
26[knot while mating]: 34-spittle.html 26[knot while mating]: spittle.html
diff --git a/15-angeltoabraham.txt b/15-angeltoabraham.txt index 54d5dea..ffd4a50 100644 --- a/15-angeltoabraham.txt +++ b/15-angeltoabraham.txt
@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ within them, intent on ending life.
24Will you hear my small voice amongst the creaking, \ 24Will you hear my small voice amongst the creaking, \
25or will it be the chance bleating of a passing ram? 25or will it be the chance bleating of a passing ram?
26 26
27[God]: 13-boar.html 27[God]: boar.html
28[will try]: 21-i-am.html 28[will try]: i-am.html
diff --git a/16-feedingtheraven.txt b/16-feedingtheraven.txt index e8d569f..14b50b7 100644 --- a/16-feedingtheraven.txt +++ b/16-feedingtheraven.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Feeding the raven' 2title: 'Feeding the raven'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 16
5genre: 'prose'
4... 6...
5 7
6You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life. For me, 8You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life. For me,
@@ -33,6 +35,6 @@ the [clock][], I went to the bathroom door. I knocked carefully---once, then
33twice---to no beaming face, no flowers. I opened the door. There was shit 35twice---to no beaming face, no flowers. I opened the door. There was shit
34on the floor and the window was open. There was a breeze blowing. 36on the floor and the window was open. There was a breeze blowing.
35 37
36[dog]: 98-hez-purpose-dogs.html 38[dog]: purpose-dogs.html
37[translation of a translation]: 41-todaniel.html 39[translation of a translation]: todaniel.html
38[clock]: 13-boar.html 40[clock]: boar.html
diff --git a/19-onformalpoetry.txt b/19-onformalpoetry.txt index 46c2471..af45519 100644 --- a/19-onformalpoetry.txt +++ b/19-onformalpoetry.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'On formal poetry' 2title: 'On formal poetry'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 19
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6I think that I could write formal poems \ 8I think that I could write formal poems \
@@ -21,5 +23,5 @@ My prepositions too---God, where's it stop? \
21The answer: never. I will never stop \ 23The answer: never. I will never stop \
22writing poems, or hating what I write. 24writing poems, or hating what I write.
23 25
24[knitting]: 25-roughgloves.html 26[knitting]: roughgloves.html
25[McNugget]: 26-ronaldmcdonald.html 27[McNugget]: ronaldmcdonald.html
diff --git a/21-i-am.txt b/21-i-am.txt index 63843bf..8605f22 100644 --- a/21-i-am.txt +++ b/21-i-am.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'I am' 2title: 'I am'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 21
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6I am a great pillar of [white smoke][]. \ 8I am a great pillar of [white smoke][]. \
@@ -22,5 +24,5 @@ there are still more. I don't think I know \
22where all of them are. I [don't think][not think] I can get \ 24where all of them are. I [don't think][not think] I can get \
23to all of them anymore. There are too many. 25to all of them anymore. There are too many.
24 26
25[white smoke]: 43-deathstrumpet.html 27[white smoke]: deathstrumpet.html
26[not think]: 22-howithappened.html 28[not think]: howithappened.html
diff --git a/22-howithappened.txt b/22-howithappened.txt index 89a6932..77e72aa 100644 --- a/22-howithappened.txt +++ b/22-howithappened.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'How it happened' 2title: 'How it happened'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 22
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6I was away on vacation when I heard--- \ 8I was away on vacation when I heard--- \
@@ -20,5 +22,5 @@ never saw a single drop of rain. I'm [the drunk][] \
20sitting on the curb who just pissed his pants, \ 22sitting on the curb who just pissed his pants, \
21holding up a sign asking where I am. 23holding up a sign asking where I am.
22 24
23[already written]: 33-shipwright.html 25[already written]: shipwright.html
24[the drunk]: 98-hez-problems.html 26[the drunk]: problems.html
diff --git a/24-lovesong.txt b/24-lovesong.txt index 675ead1..d146b35 100644 --- a/24-lovesong.txt +++ b/24-lovesong.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Love Song' 2title: 'Love Song'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 24
5genre: 'prose'
4... 6...
5 7
6Walking along in the dark is a good way to begin a song. Walking home in 8Walking along in the dark is a good way to begin a song. Walking home in
@@ -26,5 +28,5 @@ caught. Even those who cry dry their tears. I cannot tell you all I want
26because I want to tell you everything. There is no art because there is 28because I want to tell you everything. There is no art because there is
27no mirror big enough. We wake up every day. Sometimes we sleep. 29no mirror big enough. We wake up every day. Sometimes we sleep.
28 30
29[old shirt]: 26-ronaldmcdonald.html 31[old shirt]: ronaldmcdonald.html
30[every song]: 37-swansong.html 32[every song]: swansong.html
diff --git a/25-roughgloves.txt b/25-roughgloves.txt index cafd5e2..4848c9c 100644 --- a/25-roughgloves.txt +++ b/25-roughgloves.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Rough gloves' 2title: 'Rough gloves'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 25
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6I lost my hands & knit replacement ones \ 8I lost my hands & knit replacement ones \
@@ -18,6 +20,6 @@ the only way I have to knit a love \
18against whatever winters we may enter \ 20against whatever winters we may enter \
19like a silkworm in a spider's blackened [maw][]. 21like a silkworm in a spider's blackened [maw][].
20 22
21[cheek or thigh]: 16-feedingtheraven.html 23[cheek or thigh]: feedingtheraven.html
22[break a hand]: 40-weplayedthosegamestoo.html 24[break a hand]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html
23[maw]: 32-serengeti.html 25[maw]: serengeti.html
diff --git a/26-ronaldmcdonald.txt b/26-ronaldmcdonald.txt index 1094b7b..57d4642 100644 --- a/26-ronaldmcdonald.txt +++ b/26-ronaldmcdonald.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Ronald McDonald' 2title: 'Ronald McDonald'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 26
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6When Ronald McDonald takes off his [striped shirt][], \ 8When Ronald McDonald takes off his [striped shirt][], \
@@ -34,5 +36,5 @@ stuck to him like so many feathers with the tar
34of his everyday associations. His plight is that \ 36of his everyday associations. His plight is that \
35of everyone's---we are what we do who we are. 37of everyone's---we are what we do who we are.
36 38
37[striped shirt]: 12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html 39[striped shirt]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html
38[yellow gloves]: 25-roughgloves.html 40[yellow gloves]: roughgloves.html
diff --git a/28-moongone.txt b/28-moongone.txt index 8d3c50c..8ae62d5 100644 --- a/28-moongone.txt +++ b/28-moongone.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'The moon is gone and in its place a mirror' 2title: 'The moon is gone and in its place a mirror'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 28
5genre: 'prose'
4... 6...
5 7
6The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now 8The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now
@@ -15,5 +17,5 @@ a cloud above him, which due to optics has looked like someone else. The
15cloud blocks out the moon which is now a mirror, and the viewer is 17cloud blocks out the moon which is now a mirror, and the viewer is
16completely alone. 18completely alone.
17 19
18[alone]: 10-apollo11.html 20[alone]: apollo11.html
19[Earth]: 32-serengeti.html 21[Earth]: serengeti.html
diff --git a/31-mountain.txt b/31-mountain.txt index aa1d938..4221a3a 100644 --- a/31-mountain.txt +++ b/31-mountain.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Mountain' 2title: 'Mountain'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 31
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6The other side of this mountain \ 8The other side of this mountain \
@@ -25,5 +27,5 @@ sitting on a [dusty pew][].
25A hawk soars over the mountain. \ 27A hawk soars over the mountain. \
26She is looking for home. 28She is looking for home.
27 29
28[apollo]: 10-apollo11.html 30[apollo]: apollo11.html
29[dusty pew]: 08-and.html 31[dusty pew]: and.html
diff --git a/32-serengeti.txt b/32-serengeti.txt index c8dd4c1..29204e2 100644 --- a/32-serengeti.txt +++ b/32-serengeti.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Serengeti' 2title: 'Serengeti'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 32
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6The self is a serengeti \ 8The self is a serengeti \
@@ -18,5 +20,5 @@ a storm cloud builds on the horizon \
18Are you [running][] toward the rain or away from it \ 20Are you [running][] toward the rain or away from it \
19Do you stand still and crouch hoping for silence 21Do you stand still and crouch hoping for silence
20 22
21[formal]: 19-onformalpoetry.html 23[formal]: onformalpoetry.html
22[running]: 35-squirrel.html 24[running]: squirrel.html
diff --git a/33-shipwright.txt b/33-shipwright.txt index 04a30e7..16fd40f 100644 --- a/33-shipwright.txt +++ b/33-shipwright.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Shipwright' 2title: 'Shipwright'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 33
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6He builds a ship as if it were the last thing \ 8He builds a ship as if it were the last thing \
@@ -22,5 +24,5 @@ nail after nail into timber after timber, \
22but the wind [finally blows][] him into the growling ocean \ 24but the wind [finally blows][] him into the growling ocean \
23and the ship falls apart on its own. 25and the ship falls apart on its own.
24 26
25[louder]: 10-apollo11.html 27[louder]: apollo11.html
26[finally blows]: 12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html 28[finally blows]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html
diff --git a/34-spittle.txt b/34-spittle.txt index a9d7aea..fecf417 100644 --- a/34-spittle.txt +++ b/34-spittle.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Spittle' 2title: 'Spittle'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 34
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought. \ 8My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought. \
@@ -15,5 +17,5 @@ a square-jawed businessman with a briefcase full of memory? \
15I want to kiss the world to make it mine. I want to become \ 17I want to kiss the world to make it mine. I want to become \
16a Judas to reality, betray it with the wetness of emotion. 18a Judas to reality, betray it with the wetness of emotion.
17 19
18[God]: 22-howithappened.html 20[God]: howithappened.html
19[shirt-sleeve]: 24-lovesong.html 21[shirt-sleeve]: lovesong.html
diff --git a/35-squirrel.txt b/35-squirrel.txt index 61167a8..a4e3df6 100644 --- a/35-squirrel.txt +++ b/35-squirrel.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Squirrel' 2title: 'Squirrel'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 35
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6He is so full in himself: \ 8He is so full in himself: \
@@ -20,5 +22,5 @@ from his being by the slow inexorable evolution \
20of squirrels, that is why all squirrels \ 22of squirrels, that is why all squirrels \
21are so full in themselves, full in who they are. 23are so full in themselves, full in who they are.
22 24
23[birds singing]: 31-mountain.html 25[birds singing]: mountain.html
24[dance]: 98-hez-movingsideways.html 26[dance]: movingsideways.html
diff --git a/37-swansong.txt b/37-swansong.txt index eb25357..fd0badb 100644 --- a/37-swansong.txt +++ b/37-swansong.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Swan song' 2title: 'Swan song'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 37
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6Swans fly overhead singing goodbye \ 8Swans fly overhead singing goodbye \
@@ -19,6 +21,6 @@ Together, we are each other. You \
19and I have both nothing and everything \ 21and I have both nothing and everything \
20at once. We own the world and nothing in it. 22at once. We own the world and nothing in it.
21 23
22[ithappened]: 22-howithappened.html 24[ithappened]: howithappened.html
23[mirror]: 28-moongone.html 25[mirror]: moongone.html
24[trumpet]: 43-deathstrumpet.html 26[trumpet]: deathstrumpet.html
diff --git a/38-telemarketer.txt b/38-telemarketer.txt index 6d3899e..1a86afa 100644 --- a/38-telemarketer.txt +++ b/38-telemarketer.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Telemarketer' 2title: 'Telemarketer'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 38
5genre: 'prose'
4... 6...
5 7
6It was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the 8It was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the
@@ -47,11 +49,10 @@ if she were used to correcting people about the particulars of her
47title. But how often can that happen? Larry thought, and he was suddenly 49title. But how often can that happen? Larry thought, and he was suddenly
48deeply confused. 50deeply confused.
49 51
50"Oh, sorry, ma'am, uh, Miz Loring, but I wanted to know whether you'd 52"Oh, sorry, ma'am, uh, Miz Loring, but I wanted to know whether you'd like to,
51like to, ah, buy some…" Larry put his head in his hand and started 53ah, buy some..." Larry put his head in his hand and started twirling his hair
52twirling his hair in his finger, a nervous habit he'd had since 54in his finger, a nervous habit he'd had since childhood, and closed his eyes
53childhood, and closed his eyes tightly. "Why don't you have anything 55tightly. "Why don't you have anything better to do?"
54better to do?"
55 56
56Immediately he knew it was the wrong question. Even before the silence 57Immediately he knew it was the wrong question. Even before the silence
57on the other end moved past impatience and into stunned, Larry had a 58on the other end moved past impatience and into stunned, Larry had a
@@ -72,6 +73,6 @@ Quietly, with the same patience but with a [bigger pain][], Jane said, "My
72husband just left me and I thought you could take my mind off of him for 73husband just left me and I thought you could take my mind off of him for
73just a minute," and hung up. 74just a minute," and hung up.
74 75
75[ocean]: 12-theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html 76[ocean]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html
76[eagle perched]: 31-mountain.html 77[eagle perched]: mountain.html
77[bigger pain]: 11-arspoetica.html 78[bigger pain]: arspoetica.html
diff --git a/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt b/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt index e9dd274..478ca07 100644 --- a/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt +++ b/40-weplayedthosegamestoo.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'We played those games too' 2title: 'We played those games too'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 40
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game \ 8I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game \
@@ -25,5 +27,5 @@ I will never be able to say how \
25we share this blemish like conjoined twins. \ 27we share this blemish like conjoined twins. \
26I will fail you always to remember you. 28I will fail you always to remember you.
27 29
28[my daughter]: 08-and.html 30[my daughter]: and.html
29[spittle]: 34-spittle.html 31[spittle]: spittle.html
diff --git a/41-todaniel.txt b/41-todaniel.txt index dcbc67d..dfe4512 100644 --- a/41-todaniel.txt +++ b/41-todaniel.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'To Daniel: an elaboration of a previous comment' 2title: 'To Daniel: an elaboration of a previous comment'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 41
5genre: 'verse'
4... 6...
5 7
6There are more modern ideals of beauty \ 8There are more modern ideals of beauty \
@@ -21,4 +23,4 @@ I've never seen, although from many I've
21heard it's good. But it's still irrelevant--- \ 23heard it's good. But it's still irrelevant--- \
22no matter how comely, she lacks talent. 24no matter how comely, she lacks talent.
23 25
24[trumpet]: 43-deathstrumpet.html 26[trumpet]: deathstrumpet.html
diff --git a/43-deathstrumpet.txt b/43-deathstrumpet.txt index 5069904..eb874f8 100644 --- a/43-deathstrumpet.txt +++ b/43-deathstrumpet.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
1--- 1---
2title: 'Death's Trumpet' 2title: 'Death's Trumpet'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' 3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4project-order: 43
5genre: 'verse'
6
4epigraph: 'So Death plays his little fucking trumpet. So what, says the boy.' 7epigraph: 'So Death plays his little fucking trumpet. So what, says the boy.'
5epigraph-credit: 'Larry Levis' 8epigraph-credit: 'Larry Levis'
6... 9...
@@ -31,5 +34,5 @@ He's playing a first-person shooter. Death walks past him \
31and watches out of the corner of his eye. The kid's good. \ 34and watches out of the corner of his eye. The kid's good. \
32Death wants to congratulate him. His trumpet is in his hand. 35Death wants to congratulate him. His trumpet is in his hand.
33 36
34[moongone]: 28-moongone.html 37[moongone]: moongone.html
35[little boy]: 15-angeltoabraham.html 38[little boy]: angeltoabraham.html
diff --git a/98-hez-likingthings.txt b/98-hez-likingthings.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..385ea3d --- /dev/null +++ b/98-hez-likingthings.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
1---
2title: 'Liking Things'
3project: 'Book of Hezekiah'
4project-order: 7
5project-prev: 'problems.html'
6genre: 'prose'
7...
8
9The definition of happiness is *doing stuff that you really like*. That
10stuff can be eating soup, going to the bathroom, walking the dog,
11playing Dungeons and Dragons; whatever keeps your mind off the fact that
12you're so goddamn unhappy all the time. That, incidentally, is the
13definition of like: *that feeling you get when you forget how miserable
14you are for just a little bit*. Thus people like doing stuff they like
15all the time, as often as possible; because if they remember how
16horrible they really feel at not having a background to put themselves
17against, they will want to hurt themselves and those around them.
18
19The funny thing is that something we people really like to do is hurt
20ourselves and those around us. We do this by thinking other people are
21more unhappy than we are. We convince themselves that we are truly
22happy, ecstatic even, while they merely plod around life half-heartedly,
23or, if they're lucky, incorrectly. We take it upon ourselves (seeing as
24we are so happy, and can spare a little bit of happiness) to help them
25become happy as well. We fail to realize that the people will probably
26not appreciate our thinking that we're better than they are somehow, for
27that is what we do even if we don't mean it. We forget that we are also
28unhappy, and that we are just doing things we like in order to cheer
29ourselves up a little bit, which really means that this cheering is
30working; but there is such a thing as working too well. So in a sense
31what I'm doing here is cheering myself up by reminding you that you are
32unhappy; I'm trying to keep you honest in your unhappiness; and I admit
33this is usually called a dick move.
34
35In fact, the best way to overcome happy-hungering (this is the term as I
36dub it) is commit as many dick moves as possible, to keep people
37remembering that unhappiness abounds. If you see someone smiling like a
38little dog who knows it's about to get pet or get a treat or go to the
39vet to donate doggy sperm, smile back. Grin toothily (a little too
40toothily for a little too long). Their smile will start to fade if
41you're doing it right. Saunter to them, slide as if you're an Olympic
42quality ice-skater, as if you're a really good bowler who knows he's
43playing against twelve year olds and'll win by a hundred. Get really
44close. Far too close for what most people would call comfort. And remind
45them of how awful life can be: "I really like your [shirt][]---really only
46children chained to looms can get that tight of a weave," you can say,
47or "You're not really going to recycle that coffee cup, are you?" They
48will probably get angry, but that's what's supposed to happen. By making
49dick moves, you can overcome what may be the biggest evil on this earth:
50Happy-Hungering.
51
52[shirt]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html
diff --git a/98-hez-movingsideways.txt b/98-hez-movingsideways.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..43d5481 --- /dev/null +++ b/98-hez-movingsideways.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
1---
2title: 'Moving Sideways'
3project: 'Book of Hezekiah'
4project-order: 5
5project-prev: 'proverbs.html'
6project-next: 'problems.html'
7genre: 'prose'
8...
9
10A dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk. Thus if
11you want to be mindful of the movings of the universe sideways, become
12either drunk or sick. By doing this you remove yourself from the
13equation, and are able to observe, without being observed, the universe
14as it dances sideways drunkenly.
15
16Shit wait. The problem is not that by observing you are observed
17(although quantum mechanics may disagree[^1]), because obviously dogs
18don't know we're observing them when we watch them through cameras in
19their little yard while they play and eat and poop---who poops knowingly
20on camera? The problem is *the actual act of observing that distorts the
21world into what we want it to be*.
22
23What I want to know is this: Why is this necessarily a problem? The dog
24is made, by mankind, to frolic and poop and sniff and growl and dig. Why
25cannot the man be made to observe the world incorrectly around him, and
26worry about it? Men have always wandered about the earth; does it not
27make sense that also they should wonder in their minds what makes it all
28work?[^2] In fact this is the very center of the creative being: the
29ability to move sideways, to dance with reality and judge it as it
30judges you, much like teenagers at the junior prom.
31
32Of course, reality doesn't judge us back. But that doesn't mean that it
33doesn't! If you think it's judging you, then *observe in your
34surroundings your own insecurities*. It is obvious that this way of
35doing things is far from vogue; usually projecting [inner pain][] onto the
36outer world is classified as pathology. However, this is because it is
37assumed that the outer world is *on its own terms*, which it obviously
38isn't, as far as we know. It follows that as [there is no backdrop][backdrop]
39against which to judge our quirks, the quirks must not exist. Thus all
40is right with the world.
41
42[inner pain]: telemarketer.html
43[backdrop]: philosophy.html
44
45[^1]: Quantum mechanics, as is well known, are the most hornery and
46 least agreeable of all mechanics. The cost to get one quantum
47 serviced is usually at least eight times more expensive than the
48 cost of an average automobile tune-up, for reasons not clearly
49 known. The quantum mechanics themselves claim it's the smallness of
50 their work that justifies the price, but it doesn't really look like
51 they're doing anything, and besides, my quantum always seems to
52 break again within six months---maybe I'm just driving it too hard.
53
54[^2]: I attempted to strike this terrible pun from the account, but
55 Hezekiah demanded I keep it if he were to continue the relation of
56 his prophecy-slash-advice column
diff --git a/98-hez-philosophy.txt b/98-hez-philosophy.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1c50310 --- /dev/null +++ b/98-hez-philosophy.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
1---
2title: 'Philosophy'
3project: 'Book of Hezekiah'
4project-order: 3
5project-prev: 'purpose-dogs.html'
6project-next: 'proverbs.html'
7genre: 'prose'
8...
9
10Importance is important. But meaning is meaningful. Here we are at the
11crux of the matter, for both meaning and importance are also
12human-formed. So it would seem that nothing is important or meaningful,
13if importance and meaning are of themselves only products of the
14fallible human intellect. But here is the great secret: *so is the
15fallibility of the human intellect a mere product of the fallible human
16intellect.* The question here arises: Is anything real, and not a mere
17invention of a mistaken human mind? By real of course I mean
18"that which is *on its own terms*," that is, without any [modification][] on
19the part of mankind by observing it. But such a thing is impossible to
20be known, for if it be known it has certainly been observed by someone,
21and so it is not on its own terms but on the terms of the observer. So
22it cannot be known if anything exists on its own terms, for it exists on
23its own terms we certainly will not know anything about it.
24
25By this it is possible to see that nothing is knowable without the
26mediating factor of our mind fucking up the "[raw][]," the "real" world. But
27by this time it would seem that this chapter is far far too
28philosophical, not to mention pretentious, so I must try again.
29
30[modification]: i-am.html
31[raw]: spittle.html
diff --git a/98-hez-prelude.txt b/98-hez-prelude.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6e37f1 --- /dev/null +++ b/98-hez-prelude.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
1---
2title: 'Prelude'
3project: 'Book of Hezekiah'
4project-order: 1
5project-next: 'purpose-dogs.html'
6genre: 'prose'
7...
8
9Of course, there is a God. Of course, there is no God. Of course, what's
10really important is that these aren't important. No, they are; but not
11really important. All that's important is the relative importance of
12non-important things. Shit. Never mind; let's start over.
diff --git a/98-hez-problems.txt b/98-hez-problems.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d4a1f1c --- /dev/null +++ b/98-hez-problems.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
1---
2title: 'Problems'
3project: 'Book of Hezekiah'
4project-order: 6
5project-prev: 'movingsideways.html'
6project-next: 'likingthings.html'
7genre: 'prose'
8...
9
10The problem with people is this: we cannot be happy. No matter how hard
11or easy we try, it is not to be. It seems sometimes that, just as the
12dog was made for jumping in mud and sniffing out foxholes and having a
13good time all around, man was made for sadness, loneliness and
14heartache.
15
16Being the observant and judgmental people they are, people have for a
17long time tried to figure out why they aren't happy. Some say it's
18because we're obviously doing something wrong. Some say it's because we
19think too much. Some insist that it's because other people have more
20stuff than we do. These people don't have a clue any more than any of
21the rest of us. At least I don't think they do, and that's good enough
22for me.[^1] I think that the reason why people are unhappy (and this is
23a personal opinion) is that they realize on some level (for some it's a
24pretty shallow level, others it's way down there next to their love for
25women's stockings[^2]) that there is no background to put themselves
26against, no "[big picture][]" to get painted into. This makes sense, because
27on one level, the level of everyday life, the level of *observation*,
28there is always a background---look in a pair of binoculars sometime. But
29on another level, that of ... shit, wait. There are no other levels.[^3]
30
31What's more, people try to explain how to get happy again (although it's
32doubtful they were ever happy in the first place---people are very good at
33fooling). Some say standing or [sitting in a building][] with a lot of other
34unhappy people helps. Some say that you can't stop there; you also need
35to sing with those other unhappy people about how unhappy you are, and
36how you wish someone would come along and help you out, I guess by
37giving you money or something. I say all you really need to be happy is
38a good stiff drink.[^4]
39
40In any case, people have for some reason or another, and to some end or
41another, always been unhappy. And people have always tried to figure out
42ways to be less unhappy---one of the most important things to people
43everywhere is called "the pursuit of happiness." I think that calling it
44a pursuit makes people feel more like dogs, who are the most happy
45beings most people can think of. By pursuing happiness, they're like a
46dog pursuing a possum or a bone on a fishing rod: two activities that
47sound like a lot of fun to most people. I think most people wish they
48were dogs.
49
50[big picture]: ronaldmcdonald.html
51[sitting in a buiding]: feedingtheraven.html
52
53
54[^1]: This seems to be an attempt on Hezzy's part to set an example for
55 mankind. It should be noted that he is an alcoholic, and not in any
56 shape to be an example to anyone.
57
58[^2]: It is thought that only the leg coverings of the female sex are
59 here referenced
60
61[^3]: You have hereby found the super special secret cheat code room.
62 Yes, this is just like Super Mario Brothers---you can skip right to
63 the end. Go and face the final boss already!
64
65[^4]: See footnote, above
diff --git a/98-hez-proverbs.txt b/98-hez-proverbs.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b5c7a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/98-hez-proverbs.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
1---
2title: 'Proverbs'
3project: 'Book of Hezekiah'
4project-order: 4
5project-prev: 'philosophy.html'
6project-next: 'movingsideways.html'
7genre: 'prose'
8...
9
10[Nothing matters; everything is sacred. Everything matters; nothing is
11sacred][sacred].[^1] This is the only way we can move forward: by moving
12sideways. Life is a great big rugby game, and the entire field has to be run
13for a goal. The fact that the beginning two verses of this chapter have the
14same number of characters proves that they are a tautological pair, that is,
15they *complete each other*. Sometimes life seems like a dog wagging its tail,
16smiling up at you and wanting you to love it, just wanting that, simple simple
17love, oblivious to the fact that it just ran through your immaculately groomed
18flower garden and tracked all the mud in onto your freshly steamed carpet.
19Life is not life in a suburb. [There are no rosebushes, groomed never. There
20is no carpet, steamed at any time.][rosebush] The dog looks at you wanting you
21to love it. It wants to know that you know that it's there. *It wants to be
22observed*.[\^2]
23
24[sacred]: words-meaning.html
25[rosebush]: lovesong.html
26
27[^1]: Thank you Tom Stoppard. Ha ha ho ho and hee hee.
28
29[^2]: Ah ha! I knew this was going to happen at some point. Now things
30 are going to get more interesting because the dog wants what we
31 thought was a bad thing, right? Right? Didn't we go through that
32 part about how observing made it impossible to really know anything,
33 and I had to start over because it's really hard to figure out what
34 you're talking about when reality slips out of your hands like a
35 fish, but you're not a cat with claws so it just flops right outta
36 your hand back into the lake. (By the way, Nirvana is thought to be
37 what a drop of water feels upon flopping into a lake---doesn't that
38 seem important? Doesn't it seem like a fish and a drop of water here
39 are connected? It helps, of course, that the fish represents Reality
40 here.)
diff --git a/98-hez-purpose-dogs.txt b/98-hez-purpose-dogs.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..04c50b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/98-hez-purpose-dogs.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
1---
2title: 'The purpose of dogs'
3project: 'Book of Hezekiah'
4project-order: 2
5project-prev: 'prelude.html'
6project-next: 'philosophy.html'
7genre: 'prose'
8...
9
10Okay, so as we said in [the Prelude][], there either is or isn't a God. This
11has been one of the main past times of humanity, ever since ... since the
12first man (or woman) climbed out of whatever slime or swamp he thumbed his way
13out of. What humanity has failed to realize is that an incredibly plausible
14third, and heretofore unknown, hypothesis also exists: There is a dog.
15
16In fact, there are many dogs, and not only that. There are also many types of
17dogs; these are called breeds, and each breed was created by man in order to
18fulfill some use that man thought he needed. Some dogs are for chasing birds,
19and some are for chasing badgers. Some are for laying in your lap and being
20petted all day. Some dogs don't seem to be really for anything, besides being
21fucking stupid and chewing up your one-of-a-kind collectible
22individually-numbered King Kong figurine from the Peter Jackson film. But the
23important thing is, (and here we go with important things again) all dogs have
24been bred by people for performing some certain function that we think is
25important.
26
27Note: *Just because we think it's important doesn't mean it is
28important.* But it might as well be, because what we as humans think is
29important is important. But be careful! just because something's important
30doesn't mean it means anything, or that it actually makes anything happen.
31Even though just because something makes something else happen doesn't mean
32it's important. [Shit][]. Let me start again.
33
34[the Prelude]: prelude.html
35[Shit]: feedingtheraven.html
diff --git a/98-words-meaning.txt b/98-words-meaning.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..092b2d2 --- /dev/null +++ b/98-words-meaning.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
1---
2title: 'Words and meaning'
3project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves'
4genre: 'prose'
5...
6
7"How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, / and frightening
8that it does not quite," Jack Gilbert opens his poem "The Forgotten
9Dialect of the Heart." In a similar vein, Hass's "Meditation at
10Legunitas" states, "A word is elegy to what it signifies." These poems
11get to the heart of language, and express the old duality of thought: by
12giving a word to an entity, it is both tethered and made meaningful.
13
14Words are the inevitable byproduct of an analytic mind. Humans are
15constantly classifying and reclassifying ideas, objects, animals,
16people, into ten thousand arbitrary categories. A favorite saying of
17mine is that "Everything is everything," a tautology that I like,
18because it gets to the core of the human linguistic machine, and because
19every time I say it people think I'm being [disingenuous][]. But what I mean
20by "everything is everything" is that there is a continuity to existence
21that works beyond, or rather underneath, our capacity to understand it
22through language. Language by definition compartmentalizes reality, sets
23this bit apart from that bit, sets up boundaries as to what is and is
24not a stone, a leaf, a door. Most of the time I think of language as
25limiting, as defining a thing as the [inverse of everything][] is not.
26
27In this way, "everything is everything" becomes "everything is nothing,"
28which is another thing I like to say and something that pisses people
29off. To me, infinity and zero are the same, two ways of looking at the
30same point on the circle–of numbers, of the universe, whatever. Maybe
31it's because I wear an analogue watch, and so my view of time is
32cyclical, or maybe it's some brain trauma I had in vitro, but whatever it
33is that's how I see the world, because I'm working against the
34limitations that language sets upon us. I think that's the role of the
35poet, or of any artist: to take the over-expansive experience of
36existing and to boil it down, boil and boil away until there is the
37ultimate concentrate at the center that is what the poem talks around,
38at, etc., but never of, because it is ultimately made of language and
39cannot get to it. A poem is getting as close as possible to the speed of
40light, to absolute zero, to God, while knowing that it can't get all the
41way there, and never will. A poem is doing this and coming back and
42showing what happened as it happened. Exegesis is hard because a really
43good poem will be just that, it will be the most basic and best way to
44say what it's saying, so attempts to say the same thing differently will
45fail. A poem is a kernel of existence. It is a description of the
46kernel. [It is][].
47
48[disingenuous]: likingthings.html
49[inverse of everything]: i-am.html
50[It is]: arspoetica.html
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@@ -9,9 +9,22 @@
9<p><em>Note: you're on Windows right now, so make sure and type <code>bash compile.sh</code> to run the program.</em></p> 9<p><em>Note: you're on Windows right now, so make sure and type <code>bash compile.sh</code> to run the program.</em></p>
10<p>At the top of each file, there should be a YAML block that looks something like this:</p> 10<p>At the top of each file, there should be a YAML block that looks something like this:</p>
11<pre class="sourceCode yaml"><code class="sourceCode yaml"><span class="ot">---</span> 11<pre class="sourceCode yaml"><code class="sourceCode yaml"><span class="ot">---</span>
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15<span class="fu">epigraph-credit:</span> <span class="st">&#39;Who said the epigraph or wrote it or whatever&#39;</span> 15
16<span class="fu">project:</span> <span class="st">&#39;Original project here&#39;</span> 16<span class="fu">project:</span>
17<span class="kw">-</span> <span class="fu">title:</span> <span class="st">&#39;Original project name&#39;</span>
18 <span class="fu">order:</span> <span class="kw">[</span>number<span class="kw">]</span>
19 <span class="fu">prev:</span>
20 <span class="kw">-</span> <span class="fu">title:</span> <span class="st">&#39;Title of previous thing in original project&#39;</span>
21 <span class="fu">link:</span> <span class="st">&#39;link to that thing&#39;</span>
22 <span class="fu">next:</span>
23 <span class="kw">-</span> <span class="fu">title:</span> <span class="st">&#39;Title of next thing in original project&#39;</span>
24 <span class="kw">-</span> <span class="fu">link:</span> <span class="st">&#39;link to that thing&#39;</span>
25
26<span class="fu">epigraph:</span> <span class="co"># optional</span>
27<span class="kw">-</span> <span class="fu">content:</span> <span class="st">&#39;Quote from outside&#39;</span>
28 <span class="fu">link:</span> <span class="st">&#39;Link to online version of epigraph&#39;</span>
29 <span class="fu">attrib:</span> <span class="st">&#39;Who said the epigraph&#39;</span><span class="er"> # optional</span>
17<span class="co">...</span></code></pre> 30<span class="co">...</span></code></pre>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b03d323..91e57b3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md
@@ -23,13 +23,24 @@ like this:
23 23
24````yaml 24````yaml
25--- 25---
26title: 'Title of poem or whatever' 26title: 'Title of poem'
27subtitle: 'Subtitle, if it exists' 27subtitle: 'Subtitle' # optional
28epigraph: 'Include epigraph here, if it exists' 28genre: '[verse|prose]'
29epigraph-link: 'Link for the epigraph online (required)' 29
30epigraph-credit: 'Credit for epigraph (optional)' 30project:
31project: 'Original project here' 31- title: 'Original project name'
32genre: 'Genre of file: [verse|prose]' 32 order: [number]
33 prev:
34 - title: 'Title of previous thing in original project'
35 link: 'link to that thing'
36 next:
37 - title: 'Title of next thing in original project'
38 - link: 'link to that thing'
39
40epigraph: # optional
41- content: 'Quote from outside'
42 link: 'Link to online version of epigraph'
43 attrib: 'Who said the epigraph' # optional
33... 44...
34```` 45````
35 46
diff --git a/_template.html b/_template.html index 187e5d7..fef7b40 100644 --- a/_template.html +++ b/_template.html
@@ -7,34 +7,55 @@
7 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> 7 <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes">
8 <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> 8 <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth">
9 <!-- more meta tags here --> 9 <!-- more meta tags here -->
10 <title>$pagetitle$</title> 10 <title>$title$ | Autocento of the breakfast table</title>
11 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_poems.css"> 11 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_common.css">
12 $for(css)$ 12 $if(genre)$
13 <link rel="stylesheet" href="$css$"> 13 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_$genre$.css">
14 $endfor$ 14 $endif$
15 <!-- link to javascript? --> 15 $if(project.css)$
16 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="_$project.css$.css">
17 $endif$
16 <!--[if lt IE 9]> 18 <!--[if lt IE 9]>
17 <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> 19 <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script>
18 <![endif]--> 20 <![endif]-->
19 $for(header-includes)$ 21 $for(header-includes)$
20 $header-includes$ 22 $headerincludes$
21 $endfor$ 23 $endfor$
22</head> 24</head>
23<body> 25<body>
24 $for(include-before)$ 26$for(include-before)$ $include-before$ $endfor$
25 $include-before$ 27
26 $endfor$
27 $if(title)$
28 <header> 28 <header>
29 <h1 class="title">$title</h1> 29 <!-- title -->
30 $if(subtitle)$ 30 $if(title)$<h1 class="title">$title$</h1>$endif$
31 <h1 class="subtitle">$subtitle$</h1> 31 $if(subtitle)$<h1 class="subtitle">$subtitle$</h1>$endif$
32 $if(epigraph.content)$
33 <!-- epigraph -->
34 <p class="epigraph">
35 $epigraph.content$
36 $if(epigraph.link)$<a href="$epigraph.link$">&gt;</a>$endif$
37 </p>
38 $if(epigraph.attrib)$
39 <p class="epigraph-attrib">&mdash; $epigraph.attrib$</p>
40 $endif$
32 $endif$ 41 $endif$
33 </header> 42 </header>
34 $endif$ 43
35 $body$ 44 $body$
36 $for(include-after)$ 45
37 $include-after$ 46 <nav>
38 $endfor$ 47 $if(project.prev.title)$
48 <!--previous -->
49 <a href="$project.prev.link$.html">&lt; $project.prev.title$</a>
50 $endif$
51 $if(project.next.title)$
52 <!-- next -->
53 <a href="$project.next.link$.html">$project.next.title$ &gt;</a>
54 $endif$
55 </nav>
56
57$for(include-after)$
58$include-after$
59$endfor$
39</body> 60</body>
40</html> 61</html>