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diff --git a/about.txt b/about.txt index f9390ef..d4fd965 100644 --- a/about.txt +++ b/about.txt | |||
@@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ project: | |||
18 | link: first-lines | 18 | link: first-lines |
19 | ... | 19 | ... |
20 | 20 | ||
21 | Introduction | 21 | ## Introduction |
22 | ------------ | ||
23 | 22 | ||
24 | _Autocento [of the breakfast table][]_ is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time. | 23 | _Autocento [of the breakfast table][]_ is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time. |
25 | Somebody^[[citation needed][]]^ once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship. | 24 | Somebody^[[citation needed][]]^ once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship. |
@@ -29,8 +28,7 @@ This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology | |||
29 | I'm also an MFA candidate at [Northern Arizona University][NAU]. | 28 | I'm also an MFA candidate at [Northern Arizona University][NAU]. |
30 | This is my thesis. | 29 | This is my thesis. |
31 | 30 | ||
32 | Genesis | 31 | ## Genesis |
33 | ------- | ||
34 | 32 | ||
35 | This project revolves around two sister concepts: the _hapax legomenon_ and the _cento_. | 33 | This project revolves around two sister concepts: the _hapax legomenon_ and the _cento_. |
36 | 34 | ||
@@ -50,8 +48,7 @@ As Solomon said, "[There is nothing new under the sun][nothing-new]." | |||
50 | 48 | ||
51 | _Autocento of the breakfast table_ works within the tension caused by these two concepts. | 49 | _Autocento of the breakfast table_ works within the tension caused by these two concepts. |
52 | 50 | ||
53 | Process | 51 | ## Process |
54 | ------- | ||
55 | 52 | ||
56 | In compiling the works that make up this text, I've pulled from a few different projects: | 53 | In compiling the works that make up this text, I've pulled from a few different projects: |
57 | 54 | ||
@@ -64,8 +61,7 @@ as well as added new articles, written quite recently. | |||
64 | As I've compiled them into this project, I've linked them together based on common images or language, moving back and forth through time. | 61 | As I've compiled them into this project, I've linked them together based on common images or language, moving back and forth through time. |
65 | This should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside. | 62 | This should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside. |
66 | 63 | ||
67 | Technology | 64 | ## Technology |
68 | ---------- | ||
69 | 65 | ||
70 | Because this project lives online, I've used a fair amount of technology to get it there. | 66 | Because this project lives online, I've used a fair amount of technology to get it there. |
71 | First, I converted all the articles[^1] present into plain text files, which are viewable from [here][text]. | 67 | First, I converted all the articles[^1] present into plain text files, which are viewable from [here][text]. |
@@ -76,8 +72,7 @@ To host the project, I'm using [Github][], an online code-collaboration tool wit | |||
76 | This enables me (and you, dear Reader!) to explore the path of revision even more, from beginning to end, based on my commits to the repository. | 72 | This enables me (and you, dear Reader!) to explore the path of revision even more, from beginning to end, based on my commits to the repository. |
77 | You can view the repository and its changes and files at [my Github profile][].[^3] | 73 | You can view the repository and its changes and files at [my Github profile][].[^3] |
78 | 74 | ||
79 | Using this site | 75 | ## Using this site |
80 | --------------- | ||
81 | 76 | ||
82 | All of the articles on this site are linked together hypertextually (i.e., like a webpage). | 77 | All of the articles on this site are linked together hypertextually (i.e., like a webpage). |
83 | This means that all you need to do to explore the creative threads linking these articles together is to start clicking links. | 78 | This means that all you need to do to explore the creative threads linking these articles together is to start clicking links. |
@@ -89,16 +84,14 @@ It'll take you to a random article in the project, thanks to [this javascript][] | |||
89 | If you want to experience the earlier projects in something resembling the original orders, previous and next links are provided at the bottom of each page, next to the lozenge. | 84 | If you want to experience the earlier projects in something resembling the original orders, previous and next links are provided at the bottom of each page, next to the lozenge. |
90 | Sometimes, there are more than one of each of these, or there are none, dependant on the structure of their original project. | 85 | Sometimes, there are more than one of each of these, or there are none, dependant on the structure of their original project. |
91 | 86 | ||
92 | Things still to do | 87 | ## Things still to do |
93 | ------------------ | ||
94 | 88 | ||
95 | _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is a work in progress. | 89 | _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is a work in progress. |
96 | The first draft is completed, but some revision and aesthetic work remains to be done for me to consider it fully "[published][]" | 90 | The first draft is completed, but some revision and aesthetic work remains to be done for me to consider it fully "[published][]" |
97 | (what does this word mean in 2015?). | 91 | (what does this word mean in 2015?). |
98 | You can see the full list of to-dos by visiting the [issues page][issues] of the Github site. | 92 | You can see the full list of to-dos by visiting the [issues page][issues] of the Github site. |
99 | 93 | ||
100 | Contact me | 94 | ## Contact me |
101 | ---------- | ||
102 | 95 | ||
103 | If you'd like to contact me about the state of this work or my writing in general, you can email me at <case@autocento.me>. | 96 | If you'd like to contact me about the state of this work or my writing in general, you can email me at <case@autocento.me>. |
104 | 97 | ||
diff --git a/abstract.txt b/abstract.txt index 845faee..899a4fb 100644 --- a/abstract.txt +++ b/abstract.txt | |||
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9 | class: meta | 9 | class: meta |
10 | ... | 10 | ... |
11 | 11 | ||
12 | Brief Description | 12 | ## Brief Description |
13 | ----------------- | ||
14 | 13 | ||
15 | _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is my Master's thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. | 14 | _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is my Master's thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. |
16 | I've compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole. | 15 | I've compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole. |
17 | To make this easier than collating everything by hand, I've relied on a process that leverages open-source technologies to publish my work onto a web platform. | 16 | To make this easier than collating everything by hand, I've relied on a process that leverages open-source technologies to publish my work onto a web platform. |
18 | 17 | ||
19 | Things to notice | 18 | ## Things to notice |
20 | ---------------- | ||
21 | 19 | ||
22 | Take a look around the site. | 20 | Take a look around the site. |
23 | See how it's navigable: there are links within each article to other articles and to the wider web, mapping common images, themes, or inspirations; | 21 | See how it's navigable: there are links within each article to other articles and to the wider web, mapping common images, themes, or inspirations; |
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2 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | 2 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table |
3 | id: common-titles | 3 | id: common-titles |
4 | subtitle: index of common titles | 4 | subtitle: index of common titles |
5 | genre: verse | 5 | genre: prose |
6 | 6 | ||
7 | project: | 7 | project: |
8 | title: About Autocento | 8 | title: About Autocento |
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16 | ... | 16 | ... |
17 | 17 | ||
18 | [100 lines](100-lines.html) | 18 | [100 lines](100-lines.html) |
19 | [about the author](about-the-author.html), | 19 | [About the author](about-the-author.html) |
20 | [Case Duckworth](about_author.html) (nee | 20 | [Autocento of the breakfast table](about.html) |
21 | [Amber): alert](amber-alert.html)! | 21 | [About Case Duckworth](about_author.html) |
22 | 22 | [Autocento of the breakfast table](abstract.html) | |
23 | [AMBER alert](amber-alert.html) | ||
23 | [And](and.html) | 24 | [And](and.html) |
24 | [the angel, to Abraham](angeltoabraham.html), | 25 | [The angel to Abraham](angeltoabraham.html) |
25 | [on seeing the panorama \ | 26 | [On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site](apollo11.html) |
26 | of the Apollo 11 landing site](apollo11.html): | 27 | [Ars poetica](arspoetica.html) |
27 | "[Ars poetica](arspoetica.html): | 28 | [Art](art.html) |
28 | [art](art.html), | 29 | [Axe](axe.html) |
29 | an [axe](axe.html), \ | 30 | [The Big Dipper](big-dipper.html) |
30 | [the big dipper](big-dipper.html) and | 31 | [The boar](boar.html) |
31 | [the boar](boar.html). | 32 | [Boy on the bus](boy_bus.html) |
32 | The [boy on the bus](boy_bus.html) is | 33 | [Building](building.html) |
33 | [building](building.html). \ | ||
34 | [Call me](call-me-aural-pleasure.html) | 34 | [Call me](call-me-aural-pleasure.html) |
35 | [_Cereal_](cereal.html) or | 35 | [Cereal](cereal.html) |
36 | [_Cold Wind_](cold-wind.html). \ | 36 | [Cold wind](cold-wind.html) |
37 | [Instrument](collage-instrumented.html) a collage." | 37 | [Instrumented](collage-instrument.html) |
38 | 38 | [Creation myth](creation-myth.html) | |
39 | [Creation myth](creation-myth.html): | 39 | [Dead man](deadman.html) |
40 | [dead man](deadman.html) = | 40 | [The Death Zone](death-zone.html) |
41 | [the death zone](death-zone.html) = \ | 41 | [Death's trumpet](deathstrumpet.html) |
42 | [Death's trumpet](deathstrumpet.html). | 42 | [Something](dollywood.html) |
43 | [Dream](dream.html) | 43 | [Dream](dream.html) |
44 | [early](early.html). | 44 | [Early](early.html) |
45 | 45 | [Elegy for an alternate self](elegyforanalternateself.html) | |
46 | [Elegy for an alternate self:](elegyforanalternateself.html) | 46 | [epigraph](epigraph.html) |
47 | an [epigraph](epigraph.html), \ | 47 | [Ex machina](ex-machina.html) |
48 | [_ex machina_](ex-machina.html) and | 48 | [Exasperated](exasperated.html) |
49 | [exasperated](exasperated.html); | 49 | [Father](father.html) |
50 | [Father](father.html) [feeding \ | 50 | [Feeding the raven](feedingtheraven.html) |
51 | the raven](feedingtheraven.html), | 51 | [Finding the Lion](finding-the-lion.html) |
52 | [finding the lion](finding-the-lion.html), | 52 | [Fire](fire.html) |
53 | setting a [fire](fire.html). | 53 | [Look](found-typewriter-poem.html) |
54 | 54 | [Hands](hands.html) | |
55 | [Look](found-typewriter-poem.html): | 55 | [A hard game](hard-game.html) |
56 | [hands](hands.html)-[on poetry](on-genre-dimension.html)! \ | 56 | [Hardware](hardware.html) |
57 | [A hard game](hard-game.html): | 57 | [How it happened](howithappened.html) |
58 | [hardware](hardware.html). \ | ||
59 | ([How it happened](howithappened.html)?) \ | ||
60 | |||
61 | [How to read this](howtoread.html) | 58 | [How to read this](howtoread.html) |
62 | [hymnal](hymnal.html): \ | 59 | [Hymnal](hymnal.html) |
63 | "[I am](i-am.html)." "[I think it's \ | 60 | [I am](i-am.html) |
64 | you (but it's not)](i-think-its-you.html)." | 61 | [I think it's you (but it's not)](i-think-its-you.html) |
65 | |||
66 | [I wanted to tell you something](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) | ||
67 | [in bed](in-bed.html)--- \ | ||
68 | [I want to say](i-want-to-say.html) | 62 | [I want to say](i-want-to-say.html) |
69 | the [initial conditions](initial-conditions.html) | 63 | [I wanted to tell you something](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) |
70 | of [January](january.html)'s | 64 | [In bed](in-bed.html) |
71 | [joke](joke.html) are | 65 | [Initial conditions](initial-conditions.html) |
72 | [_l'appel du vide_](lappel-du-vide.html). \ | 66 | [January](january.html) |
73 | [The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt](largest-asteroid.html) is the | 67 | [Joke](joke.html) |
74 | [last bastion](last-bastion.html), \ | 68 | [L'appel du vide](lappel-du-vide.html) |
75 | the [last passenger](last-passenger.html) | 69 | [The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt](largest-asteroid.html) |
76 | [leaf](leaf.html), the | 70 | [Last bastion](last-bastion.html) |
77 | [leg](leg.html) | 71 | [Last passenger](last-passenger.html) |
78 | [liking things](likingthings.html). | 72 | [Leaf](leaf.html) |
79 | 73 | [Leg](leg.html) | |
80 | [Listen](listen.html): | 74 | [Liking Things](likingthings.html) |
81 | [love as God](love-as-god.html) loves, better \ | 75 | [Listen](listen.html) |
82 | than a [love song](lovesong.html), | 76 | [Love as God](love-as-god.html) |
83 | [man](man.html). This is \ | 77 | [Love Song](lovesong.html) |
84 | a [manifesto](manifesto_poetics.html). | 78 | [Man](man.html) |
85 | 79 | [Manifesto of poetics](manifesto_poetics.html) | |
86 | [The moon is drowning](moon-drowning.html). | 80 | [The Moon is drowning](moon-drowning.html) |
87 | [The moon is gone, \ | 81 | [The moon is gone and in its place a mirror](moongone.html) |
88 | and in its place: a mirror](moongone.html). | 82 | [The mountain](mountain.html) |
89 | [The mountain](mountain.html)'s \ | 83 | [Moving Sideways](movingsideways.html) |
90 | [moving sideways](movingsideways.html), [something about all music \ | 84 | [Something](music-433.html) |
91 | being performances of _4′33″_ in places \ | 85 | [No nothing](no-nothing.html) |
92 | where other bands happen to be playing](music-433.html). Listen: \ | 86 | [Notes](notes.html) |
93 | [no nothing](no-nothing.html), no | 87 | [Nothing is ever over](nothing-is-ever-over.html) |
94 | [notes](notes.html), [_nothing_ is ever over](nothing-is-ever-over.html). | 88 | [On genre and the dimensionality of poetry](on-genre-dimension.html) |
95 | 89 | [On formal poetry](onformalpoetry.html) | |
96 | [On formal poetry](onformalpoetry.html), | 90 | [Options](options.html) |
97 | [options](options.html): \ | 91 | [Ouroboros of Memory](ouroboros_memory.html) |
98 | an [ouroboros of memory](ouroboros_memory.html), | 92 | [Paul](paul.html) |
99 | [_Paul_](paul.html), | 93 | [Peaches](peaches.html) |
100 | [philosophy](philosophy.html), \ | 94 | [Philosophy](philosophy.html) |
101 | [phone](phone.html)s, or | 95 | [Phone](phone.html) |
102 | [planks](planks.html). | 96 | [Planks](planks.html) |
103 | A [litany for a plant](plant.html). | 97 | [Litany for a plant](plant.html) |
104 | 98 | [Something](poetry-time.html) | |
105 | [Something about the nature \ | 99 | [Prelude](prelude.html) |
106 | of poetry and time](poetry-time.html): | 100 | [Problems](problems.html) |
107 | [prelude](prelude.html), | 101 | [Autocento of the breakfast table](process.html) |
108 | [problems](problems.html), | 102 | [Proverbs](proverbs.html) |
109 | [proverbs](proverbs.html), \ | ||
110 | some [peaches](peaches.html). | ||
111 | [Punch](punch.html) | 103 | [Punch](punch.html) |
112 | is [the purpose of dogs](purpose-dogs.html). | 104 | [The purpose of dogs](purpose-dogs.html) |
113 | 105 | [Question](question.html) | |
114 | A [question](question.html): if | 106 | [A real writer](real-writer.html) |
115 | [a real writer](real-writer.html) | 107 | [Reports](reports.html) |
116 | [reports](reports.html) on \ | 108 | [Riptide of memory](riptide_memory.html) |
117 | the [riptide of memory](riptide_memory.html), does | 109 | [Ronald McDonald](ronaldmcdonald.html) |
118 | [Ronald McDonald](ronaldmcdonald.html) \ | 110 | [Rough gloves](roughgloves.html) |
119 | wear [rough gloves](roughgloves.html) or | 111 | [Sapling](sapling.html) |
120 | a [sapling](sapling.html)? | 112 | [Seasonal affective disorder](seasonal-affective-disorder.html) |
121 | 113 | [Sense of it](sense-of-it.html) | |
122 | [Seasonal affective disorder](seasonal-affective-disorder.html) is part of | 114 | [Serengeti](serengeti.html) |
123 | the [sense of it](sense-of-it.html). \ | 115 | [Shed](shed.html) |
124 | The [serengeti](serengeti.html) is | 116 | [The shipwright](shipwright.html) |
125 | a [shed](shed.html). | 117 | [The Sixteenth Chapel](sixteenth-chapel.html) |
126 | [The shipwright](shipwright.html) \ | 118 | [Snow](snow.html) |
127 | builds | 119 | [Let's start with something simple:](something-simple.html) |
128 | [the sixteenth chapel](sixteenth-chapel.html) in | 120 | [Spittle](spittle.html) |
129 | [snow](snow.html). | 121 | [The squirrel](squirrel.html) |
130 | 122 | [Stagnant](stagnant.html) | |
131 | [Let's start with something simple](something-simple.html): \ | ||
132 | [spittle](spittle.html) on | ||
133 | [the squirrel](squirrel.html) sitting | ||
134 | [stagnant](stagnant.html). \ | ||
135 | [Something about my tenure as a bear](dollywood.html). | ||
136 | [Statements](statements-frag.html) | 123 | [Statements](statements-frag.html) |
137 | [stayed on the bus too long](stayed-on-the-bus.html). | 124 | [Stayed on the bus too long](stayed-on-the-bus.html) |
138 | 125 | [Stump](stump.html) | |
139 | A [stump](stump.html) is not | 126 | [Swansong](swansong-alt.html) |
140 | a [swansong](swansong-alt.html) is not | 127 | [Swan song](swansong.html) |
141 | a [_swan_, Song](swansong.html). \ | ||
142 | |||
143 | [Swear](swear.html) | 128 | [Swear](swear.html) |
144 | the [table of contents](table_contents.html) is | 129 | [Table of contents](table_contents.html) |
145 | a [tapestry](tapestry.html). \ | 130 | [Tapestry](tapestry.html) |
146 | [Telemarketer](telemarketer.html)s swear that | 131 | [Telemarketer](telemarketer.html) |
147 | [the night we met, I \ | 132 | [The night we met, I was out of my mind](the-night-we-met.html) |
148 | was out of my mind](the-night-we-met.html). | 133 | [The sea and the beach](the-sea_the-beach.html) |
149 | 134 | [The ocean overflows with camels](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html) | |
150 | [The sea and the beach](the-sea_the-beach.html), even | 135 | [Time looks up to the sky](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html) |
151 | [the ocean overflows \ | 136 | [To Daniel](todaniel.html) |
152 | with camels](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html). | 137 | [Toilet](toilet.html) |
153 | [Time looks up to the sky](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html), \ | 138 | [Toothpaste](toothpaste.html) |
154 | [to Daniel](todaniel.html) on | 139 | [Treatise](treatise.html) |
155 | the [toilet](toilet.html) writing | 140 | [Underwear](underwear.html) |
156 | "[Toothpaste](toothpaste.html)," \ | 141 | [Walking in the rain](walking-in-the-rain.html) |
157 | a [treatise](treatise.html) on | 142 | [Wallpaper](wallpaper.html) |
158 | [underwear](underwear.html) and | 143 | [We played those games too](weplayedthosegamestoo.html) |
159 | [wallpaper](wallpaper.html). | 144 | [What we are made of](what-we-are-made-of.html) |
160 | 145 | [When I'm sorry I wash dishes](when-im-sorry-i.html) | |
161 | [We played those games too](weplayedthosegamestoo.html). | 146 | [Window](window.html) |
162 | 147 | [Words and their irritable reaching](words-irritable-reaching.html) | |
163 | [When I'm sorry I wash dishes](when-im-sorry-i.html) in | 148 | [Words and meaning](words-meaning.html) |
164 | the [window](window.html), [walking \ | 149 | [Worse looking over](worse-looking-over.html) |
165 | in the rain](walking-in-the-rain.html), thinking \ | 150 | [Writing](writing.html) |
166 | about | 151 | [X-ray](x-ray.html) |
167 | [what we are made of](what-we-are-made-of.html): \ | 152 | [Yellow](yellow.html) |
168 | [words and meaning](words-meaning.html), | ||
169 | [irritably reaching after reason](words-irritable-reaching.html). | ||
170 | I feel [worse, \ | ||
171 | looking over](worse-looking-over.html) at you, | ||
172 | than when I'm [writing](writing.html) \ | ||
173 | an [x-ray](x-ray.html) in | ||
174 | [yellow](yellow.html). | ||
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36 | 36 | ||
37 | 37 | ||
38 | <section class="content verse"> | 38 | <section class="content verse"> |
39 | <p><span class="line">So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings</span><span class="line">walk into a bar. One turns to the other and says,</span><span class="line">“Did you remember to check the end state<br />of that simulation we were running?” The other</span><span class="line">says, “No, I thought that you did?” To which</span><span class="line">the first replies, “<a href="movingsideways.html">Oh shit</a>, we missed it.</span><span class="line">I suppose we must do all of this again. Barkeep,</span></p> | 39 | <p><span class="line">So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings</span><span class="line">walk into a bar. One turns to the other and says,</span><span class="line">“Did you remember to check the end state</span><span class="line">of that simulation we were running?" The other</span><span class="line">says, “No, I thought that you did?” To which</span><span class="line">the first replies, “<a href="movingsideways.html">Oh shit</a>, we missed it.</span><span class="line">I suppose we must do all of this again. Barkeep,</span></p> |
40 | <p><span class="line">two beers please." The bartender nods in that way</span><span class="line">that bartenders do, pours the two beers,</span><span class="line">expertly, by the way, just so, and hands them</span><span class="line">to the first <a href="http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mice">hyperintelligent pandimensional</a> being.</span><span class="line">The second one pulls a few singles out of his</span><span class="line">wallet, places them on the bar, and the pair</span><span class="line">turn around and begin walking toward a table</span><span class="line">in the middle of the mostly-empty bar. The bar-</span><span class="line">tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns,</span><span class="line">and calls to his patrons’ backs: “Hey, this<br />isn’t enough!” The two turn around simultan-</span><span class="line">eously, with parity, and stare at him. A beat.</span></p> | 40 | <p><span class="line">two beers please." The bartender nods in that way</span><span class="line">that bartenders do, pours the two beers,</span><span class="line">expertly, by the way, just so, and hands them</span><span class="line">to the first <a href="http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mice">hyperintelligent pandimensional</a> being.</span><span class="line">The second one pulls a few singles out of his</span><span class="line">wallet, places them on the bar, and the pair</span><span class="line">turn around and begin walking toward a table</span><span class="line">in the middle of the mostly-empty bar. The bar-</span><span class="line">tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns,</span><span class="line">and calls to his patrons’ backs: “Hey, this</span><span class="line">isn’t enough!" The two turn around simultan-</span><span class="line">eously, with parity, and stare at him. A beat.</span></p> |
41 | <p><span class="line">One of them, the one without the beer, breaks</span><span class="line">the silence by exclaiming, “Oh dear god, I’m<br />sorry! I didn’t know your prices went up since<br />last time. What do I owe you?” The bartender</span><span class="line">says, “Oh, just another <a href="100-lines.html">dollar</a>-fifty.” The being</span><span class="line">reaches in his back pocket, slides out his</span><span class="line">wallet, looks in smiling, and frowns when he sees</span><span class="line">it’s empty. He looks to the other and says,</span><span class="line">“You got a <a href="plant.html">buck</a>-fifty I can borrow?”</span></p> | 41 | <p><span class="line">One of them, the one without the beer, breaks</span><span class="line">the silence by exclaiming, “Oh dear god, I’m</span><span class="line">sorry! I didn’t know your prices went up since</span><span class="line">last time. What do I owe you?" The bartender</span><span class="line">says, “Oh, just another <a href="100-lines.html">dollar</a>-fifty.” The being</span><span class="line">reaches in his back pocket, slides out his</span><span class="line">wallet, looks in smiling, and frowns when he sees</span><span class="line">it’s empty. He looks to the other and says,</span><span class="line">“You got a <a href="plant.html">buck</a>-fifty I can borrow?”</span></p> |
42 | <p><span class="line">The second hyperintelligent pandimensional being</span><span class="line">considers this. He sets the beers down</span><span class="line">on the table, pulls out his own wallet, opens</span><span class="line">it, and frowns. “I’m broke too,” he says.</span></p> | 42 | <p><span class="line">The second hyperintelligent pandimensional being</span><span class="line">considers this. He sets the beers down</span><span class="line">on the table, pulls out his own wallet, opens</span><span class="line">it, and frowns. “I’m broke too,” he says.</span></p> |
43 | </section> | 43 | </section> |
44 | </article> | 44 | </article> |
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8 | class: autocento | 8 | class: autocento |
9 | ... | 9 | ... |
10 | 10 | ||
11 | So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings \ | 11 | | So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings |
12 | walk into a bar. One turns to the other and says, \ | 12 | | walk into a bar. One turns to the other and says, |
13 | "Did you remember to check the end state \ | 13 | | "Did you remember to check the end state |
14 | of that simulation we were running?" The other \ | 14 | | of that simulation we were running?" The other |
15 | says, "No, I thought that you did?" To which \ | 15 | | says, "No, I thought that you did?" To which |
16 | the first replies, "[Oh shit][], we missed it. \ | 16 | | the first replies, "[Oh shit][], we missed it. |
17 | I suppose we must do all of this again. Barkeep, | 17 | | I suppose we must do all of this again. Barkeep, |
18 | 18 | ||
19 | two beers please." The bartender nods in that way \ | 19 | | two beers please." The bartender nods in that way |
20 | that bartenders do, pours the two beers, \ | 20 | | that bartenders do, pours the two beers, |
21 | expertly, by the way, just so, and hands them \ | 21 | | expertly, by the way, just so, and hands them |
22 | to the first [hyperintelligent pandimensional][] being. \ | 22 | | to the first [hyperintelligent pandimensional][] being. |
23 | The second one pulls a few singles out of his \ | 23 | | The second one pulls a few singles out of his |
24 | wallet, places them on the bar, and the pair \ | 24 | | wallet, places them on the bar, and the pair |
25 | turn around and begin walking toward a table \ | 25 | | turn around and begin walking toward a table |
26 | in the middle of the mostly-empty bar. The bar- \ | 26 | | in the middle of the mostly-empty bar. The bar- |
27 | tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns, \ | 27 | | tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns, |
28 | and calls to his patrons' backs: "Hey, this \ | 28 | | and calls to his patrons' backs: "Hey, this |
29 | isn't enough!" The two turn around simultan- \ | 29 | | isn't enough!" The two turn around simultan- |
30 | eously, with parity, and stare at him. A beat. | 30 | | eously, with parity, and stare at him. A beat. |
31 | 31 | ||
32 | One of them, the one without the beer, breaks \ | 32 | | One of them, the one without the beer, breaks |
33 | the silence by exclaiming, "Oh dear god, I'm \ | 33 | | the silence by exclaiming, "Oh dear god, I'm |
34 | sorry! I didn't know your prices went up since \ | 34 | | sorry! I didn't know your prices went up since |
35 | last time. What do I owe you?" The bartender \ | 35 | | last time. What do I owe you?" The bartender |
36 | says, "Oh, just another [dollar][]-fifty." The being \ | 36 | | says, "Oh, just another [dollar][]-fifty." The being |
37 | reaches in his back pocket, slides out his \ | 37 | | reaches in his back pocket, slides out his |
38 | wallet, looks in smiling, and frowns when he sees \ | 38 | | wallet, looks in smiling, and frowns when he sees |
39 | it's empty. He looks to the other and says, \ | 39 | | it's empty. He looks to the other and says, |
40 | "You got a [buck][]-fifty I can borrow?" | 40 | | "You got a [buck][]-fifty I can borrow?" |
41 | 41 | ||
42 | The second hyperintelligent pandimensional being \ | 42 | | The second hyperintelligent pandimensional being |
43 | considers this. He sets the beers down \ | 43 | | considers this. He sets the beers down |
44 | on the table, pulls out his own wallet, opens \ | 44 | | on the table, pulls out his own wallet, opens |
45 | it, and frowns. "I'm broke too," he says. | 45 | | it, and frowns. "I'm broke too," he says. |
46 | 46 | ||
47 | [hyperintelligent pandimensional]: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mice | 47 | [hyperintelligent pandimensional]: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mice |
48 | [Oh shit]: movingsideways.html | 48 | [Oh shit]: movingsideways.html |
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39 | <p><a href="100-lines.html">Whenever you call me friend</a> <a href="about-the-author.html">He was born on a few separate occasions <em>green traffic lights at night</em></a> <a href="about.html"><em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time.</a> <a href="about_author.html">Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV.</a> <a href="abstract.html"><em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> is my Master’s thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession.</a> <a href="amber-alert.html">Lost things have a way of staying lost.</a> <a href="and.html">And you were there at the start of it all</a> <a href="angeltoabraham.html">Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:</a> <a href="apollo11.html">So it’s the fucking moon. Big deal. As if</a> <a href="arspoetica.html">What is poetry?</a> <a href="art.html">Paul was writing in his diary about art.</a> <a href="axe.html">Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.</a> <a href="big-dipper.html">After searching for days or even months</a> <a href="boar.html">Now the ticking clocks scare me.</a> <a href="boy_bus.html">When he said Bible I heard his southern accent</a> <a href="building.html">_ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building.</a> <a href="call-me-aural-pleasure.html">Like <em>40</em> as I challenge anyone to come too!</a> <a href="cereal.html">He woke up after eleven and didn’t go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.</a> <a href="cold-wind.html">Man of autumn, cold wind,</a> <a href="collage-instrument.html"><code>tr</code> has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.</a> <a href="creation-myth.html">So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings</a> <a href="deadman.html">A dead man finds his way into our hearts</a> <a href="death-zone.html">When I think of death I think</a> <a href="deathstrumpet.html">He didn’t have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing,</a> <a href="dollywood.html">I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.</a> <a href="dream.html">It had gotten cold.</a> <a href="early.html"><em>YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED</em> he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.</a> <a href="elegyforanalternateself.html">Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined</a> <a href="epigraph.html">I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.</a> <a href="ex-machina.html">Bottom of the drink: they had</a> <a href="exasperated.html">I didn’t write this sestina yesterday.</a> <a href="father.html">“Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things” he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed.</a> <a href="feedingtheraven.html">You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.</a> <a href="finding-the-lion.html">Tonight, as I look up, the stars</a> <a href="fire.html">His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.</a> <a href="found-typewriter-poem.html">Look, I say—look here—</a> <a href="hands.html">He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.</a> <a href="hard-game.html">You think building Hoggle’s a hard game?</a> <a href="hardware.html">His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.</a> <a href="howithappened.html">I was away on vacation when I heard—</a> <a href="howtoread.html">This book is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.</a> <a href="hymnal.html"><em>It’s all jokes</em> Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.</a> <a href="i-am.html">I am a great pillar of white smoke.</a> <a href="i-think-its-you.html">I thought I saw you walking</a> <a href="i-want-to-say.html">I want to say I take it all back</a> <a href="i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html">I wanted to tell you something in order to</a> <a href="in-bed.html">I hear the rats run</a> <a href="initial-conditions.html">There is a theory which states the Universe</a> <a href="january.html">January.</a> <a href="joke.html">He wrote <em><strong>JOKES</strong></em> on the top of a page in his notebook.</a> <a href="lappel-du-vide.html">Walter rides the bus into work on Wednesday morning when he realizes, with the force and surprise of a rogue current, that he is in the home-for-death phase of life.</a> <a href="largest-asteroid.html">What secrets does it hold?</a> <a href="last-bastion.html">Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle</a> <a href="last-passenger.html">Memory works strangely, spooling its thread</a> <a href="leaf.html">He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.</a> <a href="leg.html">His first chair was a stool.</a> <a href="likingthings.html">The definition of happiness is <em>doing stuff that you really like</em>.</a> <a href="listen.html">If you swallow hard enough</a> <a href="love-as-god.html">God is love, they say, but there is</a> <a href="lovesong.html">Walking along in the dark is a good way to begin a song.</a> <a href="man.html"><em>THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES</em></a> <a href="manifesto_poetics.html">What is a poem?</a> <a href="moon-drowning.html">The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them</a> <a href="moongone.html">The moon is gone and in its place a mirror.</a> <a href="mountain.html">The other side of this mountain</a> <a href="movingsideways.html">A dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk.</a> <a href="music-433.html">Silence lies underneath us all in the same way</a> <a href="no-nothing.html">While swimming in the river</a> <a href="notes.html">Paul began typing on notecards.</a> <a href="nothing-is-ever-over.html">Nothing is ever over; nothing</a> <a href="on-genre-dimension.html">How does one describe a poem?</a> <a href="onformalpoetry.html">I think that I could write formal poems</a> <a href="options.html">What did he do when he was in the woods?</a> <a href="ouroboros_memory.html">He said at the beginning, “It’s like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.</a> <a href="paul.html">CONTENTS OF THE SHED</a> <a href="peaches.html">“My anger is like a peach,” he said.</a> <a href="philosophy.html">Importance is important.</a> <a href="phone.html">“Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me” the voice on the phone was a woman’s.</a> <a href="planks.html">EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING</a> <a href="plant.html">I need a plant. I need a thing</a> <a href="poetry-time.html">I’m writing this now because I have to.</a> <a href="prelude.html">Of course, there is a God.</a> <a href="problems.html">The problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.</a> <a href="process.html"><em>Autocento of the breakfast table</em> is an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession.</a> <a href="proverbs.html">Nothing matters; everything is sacred.</a> <a href="punch.html">When he finally got back to work he was surprised they threw him a party.</a> <a href="purpose-dogs.html">Okay, so as we said in the Prelude, there either is or isn’t a God.</a> <a href="question.html">“Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything” Paul asked Jill on his first coffee break at work.</a> <a href="real-writer.html">Sometimes I feel as though I am not a real writer.</a> <a href="reports.html">“Paul, you can’t turn in your reports on four-by-six notecards” Jill told him after he handed her his reports, typed carefully on twelve four-by-six notecards.</a> <a href="riptide_memory.html">Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.</a> <a href="ronaldmcdonald.html">When Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,</a> <a href="roughgloves.html">I lost my hands & knit replacement ones</a> <a href="sapling.html">He chopped down a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.</a> <a href="seasonal-affective-disorder.html">On your desk I set a tangerine:</a> <a href="sense-of-it.html">I only write poems on the bus anymore.</a> <a href="serengeti.html">The self is a serengeti</a> <a href="shed.html">“What do you do all day in that shed out back” his mother asked one night while they ate dinner in front of the TV.</a> <a href="shipwright.html">He builds a ship as if it were the last thing</a> <a href="sixteenth-chapel.html">If Justin Bieber isn’t going for the sixteenth</a> <a href="snow.html"><em>I don’t care if they burn</em> he wrote on his last blank notecard.</a> <a href="something-simple.html">in mammals the ratio between bladder size</a> <a href="spittle.html">My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.</a> <a href="squirrel.html">He is so full in himself:</a> <a href="stagnant.html">“Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read” Paul thought to himself on the bus ride to work.</a> <a href="statements-frag.html">“Can one truly describe an emotion?” Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.</a> <a href="stayed-on-the-bus.html">It was a gamble</a> <a href="stump.html">He walked into the woods for the first time in months.</a> <a href="swansong-alt.html">This poem is dry like chapped lips.</a> <a href="swansong.html">Swans fly overhead singing goodbye</a> <a href="swear.html">EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME</a> <a href="table_contents.html">4. The look she gave me 4. Half-hours in heaven are three times</a> <a href="tapestry.html">_Apparently typewriters need ribbon.</a> <a href="telemarketer.html">It was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the street only if Larry craned his neck to almost vertical.</a> <a href="the-night-we-met.html">My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,</a> <a href="the-sea_the-beach.html">Waiting for a reading to start</a> <a href="theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html">We found your shirt deep in the dark water,</a> <a href="time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html">I wish I’d kissed you when I had the chance.</a> <a href="todaniel.html">There are more modern ideals of beauty</a> <a href="toilet.html">Paul only did his reading on the toilet.</a> <a href="toothpaste.html">He couldn’t find a shirt to go to work in.</a> <a href="treatise.html">TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS “SPOOKY</a> <a href="underwear.html">He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.</a> <a href="walking-in-the-rain.html">I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence</a> <a href="wallpaper.html">He didn’t go back into the shed for a long time.</a> <a href="weplayedthosegamestoo.html">I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game</a> <a href="what-we-are-made-of.html">There is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.</a> <a href="when-im-sorry-i.html">Your casserole dish takes the longest:</a> <a href="window.html"><em><strong>HYMN 386: JOKES</strong></em></a> <a href="words-irritable-reaching.html">Somewhere I remember reading advice for beginning writers not to show their work to anyone, at least that in the early stages.</a> <a href="words-meaning.html">“How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, / and frightening that it does not quite,” Jack Gilbert opens his poem “The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart.”</a> <a href="worse-looking-over.html">The radio is screaming the man</a> <a href="writing.html">He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.</a> <a href="x-ray.html">While chopping a tree in the woods with his hatchet (a Christmas gift from his mother) a bird he’d never heard before cried out.</a> <a href="yellow.html">He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.</a></p> | ||
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17 | 17 | ||
18 | [A dead man finds his way into our hearts](deadman.html) | 18 | [Whenever you call me friend](100-lines.html) |
19 | [a dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk.](movingsideways.html) | 19 | [He was born on a few separate occasions _green traffic lights at night_](about-the-author.html) |
20 | [ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building.](building.html) | 20 | [_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time.](about.html) |
21 | [Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:](angeltoabraham.html) | ||
22 | [after searching for days or even months](big-dipper.html) | ||
23 | [and you were there in the start of it all](and.html) | ||
24 | [apparently typewriters need ribbon.](tapestry.html) | ||
25 | [Bottom of the drink: they had](ex-machina.html) | ||
26 | [contents of the shed](paul.html). | ||
27 | |||
28 | ["Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.](statements-frag.html) | ||
29 | [Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV.](about_author.html) | 21 | [Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV.](about_author.html) |
30 | [Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle](last-bastion.html). | 22 | [_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is my Master's thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession.](abstract.html) |
31 | ["Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything" Paul asked Jill on his first coffee break at work.](question.html) | 23 | [Lost things have a way of staying lost.](amber-alert.html) |
32 | [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](planks.html). | 24 | [And you were there at the start of it all](and.html) |
33 | [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](swear.html). | 25 | [Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:](angeltoabraham.html) |
34 | [God is love, they say, but there is](love-as-god.html) | 26 | [So it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if](apollo11.html) |
35 | [hymn 386: jokes](window.html). | 27 | [What is poetry?](arspoetica.html) |
36 | 28 | [Paul was writing in his diary about art.](art.html) | |
37 | [He builds a ship as if it were the last thing](shipwright.html) | 29 | [Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.](axe.html) |
38 | [he chopped down: a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.](sapling.html) | 30 | [After searching for days or even months](big-dipper.html) |
39 | [He couldn't find a shirt to go to work in.](toothpaste.html) | 31 | [Now the ticking clocks scare me.](boar.html) |
40 | [He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.](wallpaper.html) | 32 | [When he said Bible I heard his southern accent](boy_bus.html) |
33 | [_ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building.](building.html) | ||
34 | [Like _40_ as I challenge anyone to come too!](call-me-aural-pleasure.html) | ||
35 | [He woke up after eleven and didn't go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.](cereal.html) | ||
36 | [Man of autumn, cold wind,](cold-wind.html) | ||
37 | [`tr` has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.](collage-instrument.html) | ||
38 | [So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings](creation-myth.html) | ||
39 | [A dead man finds his way into our hearts](deadman.html) | ||
40 | [When I think of death I think](death-zone.html) | ||
41 | [He didn't have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing,](deathstrumpet.html) | 41 | [He didn't have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing,](deathstrumpet.html) |
42 | [he dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.](underwear.html) | 42 | [I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.](dollywood.html) |
43 | [He is so full in himself:](squirrel.html) | 43 | [It had gotten cold.](dream.html) |
44 | [_YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.](early.html) | ||
45 | [Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined](elegyforanalternateself.html) | ||
46 | [I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.](epigraph.html) | ||
47 | [Bottom of the drink: they had](ex-machina.html) | ||
48 | [I didn't write this sestina yesterday.](exasperated.html) | ||
49 | ["Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed.](father.html) | ||
50 | [You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.](feedingtheraven.html) | ||
51 | [Tonight, as I look up, the stars](finding-the-lion.html) | ||
52 | [His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.](fire.html) | ||
53 | [Look, I say---look here---](found-typewriter-poem.html) | ||
44 | [He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.](hands.html) | 54 | [He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.](hands.html) |
45 | [He said at the beginning, "It's like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.](ouroboros_memory.html)" | 55 | [You think building Hoggle's a hard game?](hard-game.html) |
46 | [He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.](writing.html) | 56 | [His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.](hardware.html) |
57 | [I was away on vacation when I heard---](howithappened.html) | ||
58 | [This book is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.](howtoread.html) | ||
59 | [_It's all jokes_ Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.](hymnal.html) | ||
60 | [I am a great pillar of white smoke.](i-am.html) | ||
61 | [I thought I saw you walking](i-think-its-you.html) | ||
62 | [I want to say I take it all back](i-want-to-say.html) | ||
63 | [I wanted to tell you something in order to](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) | ||
64 | [I hear the rats run](in-bed.html) | ||
65 | [There is a theory which states the Universe](initial-conditions.html) | ||
66 | [January.](january.html) | ||
67 | [He wrote _**JOKES**_ on the top of a page in his notebook.](joke.html) | ||
68 | [Walter rides the bus into work on Wednesday morning when he realizes, with the force and surprise of a rogue current, that he is in the home-for-death phase of life.](lappel-du-vide.html) | ||
69 | [What secrets does it hold?](largest-asteroid.html) | ||
70 | [Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle](last-bastion.html) | ||
71 | [Memory works strangely, spooling its thread](last-passenger.html) | ||
47 | [He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.](leaf.html) | 72 | [He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.](leaf.html) |
48 | [He walked into the woods for the first time in months.](stump.html) | ||
49 | [He was born on a few separate occasions: green traffic lights at night](about-the-author.html). | ||
50 | [He woke up after eleven and didn't go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.](cereal.html) | ||
51 | [He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.](yellow.html) | ||
52 | [He wrote JOKES on the top of a page in his notebook.](joke.html) | ||
53 | |||
54 | ["Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me" the voice on the phone was a woman's.](phone.html) | ||
55 | [His first chair was a stool.](leg.html) | 73 | [His first chair was a stool.](leg.html) |
56 | [His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.](hardware.html) | 74 | [The definition of happiness is *doing stuff that you really like*.](likingthings.html) |
57 | [His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.](fire.html) | 75 | [If you swallow hard enough](listen.html) |
58 | 76 | [God is love, they say, but there is](love-as-god.html) | |
59 | ["How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, / and frightening that it does not quite," Jack Gilbert opens his poem "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart."](words-meaning.html) | 77 | [Walking along in the dark is a good way to begin a song.](lovesong.html) |
78 | [_THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES_](man.html) | ||
79 | [What is a poem?](manifesto_poetics.html) | ||
80 | [The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them](moon-drowning.html) | ||
81 | [The moon is gone and in its place a mirror.](moongone.html) | ||
82 | [The other side of this mountain](mountain.html) | ||
83 | [A dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk.](movingsideways.html) | ||
84 | [Silence lies underneath us all in the same way](music-433.html) | ||
85 | [While swimming in the river](no-nothing.html) | ||
86 | [Paul began typing on notecards.](notes.html) | ||
87 | [Nothing is ever over; nothing](nothing-is-ever-over.html) | ||
60 | [How does one describe a poem?](on-genre-dimension.html) | 88 | [How does one describe a poem?](on-genre-dimension.html) |
61 | [I am a great pillar of white smoke.](i-am.html) | 89 | [I think that I could write formal poems](onformalpoetry.html) |
62 | [I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence](walking-in-the-rain.html). | 90 | [What did he do when he was in the woods?](options.html) |
63 | [I didn't write this sestina yesterday.](exasperated.html) | 91 | [He said at the beginning, "It's like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.](ouroboros_memory.html) |
64 | [I don't care if they burn he wrote on his last blank notecard.](snow.html) | 92 | [CONTENTS OF THE SHED](paul.html) |
65 | [I hear the rats run](in-bed.html). | 93 | ["My anger is like a peach," he said.](peaches.html) |
66 | [I lost my hands & knit replacement ones](roughgloves.html). | 94 | [Importance is important.](philosophy.html) |
67 | [I need a plant. I need a thing](plant.html). | 95 | ["Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me" the voice on the phone was a woman's.](phone.html) |
68 | [I only write poems on the bus anymore.](sense-of-it.html) | 96 | [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING](planks.html) |
69 | [I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.](epigraph.html) | 97 | [I need a plant. I need a thing](plant.html) |
70 | [I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game](weplayedthosegamestoo.html) | ||
71 | [I think that I could write formal poems](onformalpoetry.html); | ||
72 | [I thought I saw you walking](i-think-its-you.html). | ||
73 | [I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.](dollywood.html) | ||
74 | |||
75 | [I want to say I take it all back](i-want-to-say.html), | ||
76 | [I wanted to tell you something in order to](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) --- | ||
77 | [I was away on vacation when I heard ---](howithappened.html) | ||
78 | [I wish I'd kissed you when I had the chance.](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html) | ||
79 | [I'm writing this now because I have to.](poetry-time.html) | 98 | [I'm writing this now because I have to.](poetry-time.html) |
80 | [If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth](sixteenth-chapel.html) --- | 99 | [Of course, there is a God.](prelude.html) |
81 | [if you swallow hard enough](listen.html) --- | 100 | [The problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.](problems.html) |
82 | [importance is important.](philosophy.html) | 101 | [_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession.](process.html) |
102 | [Nothing matters; everything is sacred.](proverbs.html) | ||
103 | [When he finally got back to work he was surprised they threw him a party.](punch.html) | ||
104 | [Okay, so as we said in the Prelude, there either is or isn't a God.](purpose-dogs.html) | ||
105 | ["Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything" Paul asked Jill on his first coffee break at work.](question.html) | ||
106 | [Sometimes I feel as though I am not a real writer.](real-writer.html) | ||
107 | ["Paul, you can't turn in your reports on four-by-six notecards" Jill told him after he handed her his reports, typed carefully on twelve four-by-six notecards.](reports.html) | ||
83 | [Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.](riptide_memory.html) | 108 | [Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.](riptide_memory.html) |
84 | 109 | [When Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,](ronaldmcdonald.html) | |
85 | ["Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed.](father.html) | 110 | [I lost my hands & knit replacement ones](roughgloves.html) |
86 | [It had gotten cold.](dream.html) | 111 | [He chopped down a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.](sapling.html) |
87 | [It was a gamble](stayed-on-the-bus.html); | ||
88 | [it was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the street only if Larry craned his neck to almost vertical.](telemarketer.html) | ||
89 | [It's all jokes Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.](hymnal.html) | ||
90 | [January.](january.html) | ||
91 | |||
92 | "[Like 40 as I challenge anyone to come too!](call-me-aural-pleasure.html) | ||
93 | [Look, I say --- look here ---](found-typewriter-poem.html) | ||
94 | [Lost things have a way of staying lost.](amber-alert.html)" | ||
95 | [Man of autumn, cold wind,](cold-wind.html) | ||
96 | [memory works strangely, spooling its thread](last-passenger.html). | ||
97 | |||
98 | ["My anger is like a peach," he said.](peaches.html) | ||
99 | "[My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.](spittle.html)" | ||
100 | [My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,](the-night-we-met.html) | ||
101 | [nothing is ever over; nothing](nothing-is-ever-over.html) --- | ||
102 | [nothing matters; everything is sacred.](proverbs.html) | ||
103 | [Now the ticking clocks scare me.](boar.html) | ||
104 | |||
105 | [Of course, there is a God.](prelude.html) --- | ||
106 | [Okay, so there either is or isn't a God.](purpose-dogs.html) | ||
107 | [On your desk I set a tangerine:](seasonal-affective-disorder.html) | 112 | [On your desk I set a tangerine:](seasonal-affective-disorder.html) |
108 | [Paul began typing on notecards.](notes.html) | 113 | [I only write poems on the bus anymore.](sense-of-it.html) |
109 | 114 | [The self is a serengeti](serengeti.html) | |
110 | [Paul only did his reading on the toilet.](toilet.html) | 115 | ["What do you do all day in that shed out back" his mother asked one night while they ate dinner in front of the TV.](shed.html) |
111 | [Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.](axe.html) | 116 | [He builds a ship as if it were the last thing](shipwright.html) |
112 | [Paul was writing in his diary about art.](art.html) | 117 | [If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth](sixteenth-chapel.html) |
113 | 118 | [_I don't care if they burn_ he wrote on his last blank notecard.](snow.html) | |
114 | ["Paul, you can't turn in your reports on four-by-six notecards" Jill told him after he handed her his reports, typed carefully on twelve four-by-six notecards.](reports.html) | 119 | [in mammals the ratio between bladder size](something-simple.html) |
120 | [My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.](spittle.html) | ||
121 | [He is so full in himself:](squirrel.html) | ||
115 | ["Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read" Paul thought to himself on the bus ride to work.](stagnant.html) | 122 | ["Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read" Paul thought to himself on the bus ride to work.](stagnant.html) |
116 | 123 | ["Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.](statements-frag.html) | |
117 | [Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined](elegyforanalternateself.html): | 124 | [It was a gamble](stayed-on-the-bus.html) |
118 | [silence lies underneath us all in the same way](music-433.html) | 125 | [He walked into the woods for the first time in months.](stump.html) |
119 | [it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if](apollo11.html) | ||
120 | [two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings](creation-myth.html) | ||
121 | [feel as though I am not a real writer.](real-writer.html) | ||
122 | [Somewhere I remember reading advice for beginning writers not to show their work to anyone, at least that in the early stages.](words-irritable-reaching.html) | ||
123 | |||
124 | [Swans fly overhead singing goodbye](swansong.html): | ||
125 | [THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES](man.html). | ||
126 | [TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE"](treatise.html): | ||
127 | [the definition of happiness is _doing stuff that you really like_.](likingthings.html) | ||
128 | [The look she gave me (Half-hours in heaven are three times that in hell)](table_contents.html). | ||
129 | [The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them](moon-drowning.html) --- | ||
130 | [The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now](moongone.html), | ||
131 | [the other side of this mountain](mountain.html): | ||
132 | [the problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.](problems.html) | ||
133 | [The radio is screaming the man](worse-looking-over.html) --- | ||
134 | [the self is a serengeti](serengeti.html) --- | ||
135 | [there are more modern ideals of beauty](todaniel.html) --- | ||
136 | [there is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.](what-we-are-made-of.html) | ||
137 | |||
138 | [There is a theory which states the Universe](initial-conditions.html), | ||
139 | [this book, is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.](howtoread.html) | ||
140 | [This poem is dry like chapped lips.](swansong-alt.html) | 126 | [This poem is dry like chapped lips.](swansong-alt.html) |
141 | [Tonight, as I look up, the stars](finding-the-lion.html), | 127 | [Swans fly overhead singing goodbye](swansong.html) |
142 | [waiting for a reading to start](the-sea_the-beach.html), | 128 | [EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](swear.html) |
143 | [walking along in the dark, is a good way to begin a song.](lovesong.html) | 129 | [4. The look she gave me 4. Half-hours in heaven are three times](table_contents.html) |
144 | 130 | [_Apparently typewriters need ribbon.](tapestry.html) | |
145 | [Walter rides the bus into work on Wednesday morning when he realizes, with the force and surprise of a rogue current, that he is in the home-for-death phase of life.](lappel-du-vide.html) | 131 | [It was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the street only if Larry craned his neck to almost vertical.](telemarketer.html) |
146 | [We found your shirt deep in the dark water](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html) --- | 132 | [My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,](the-night-we-met.html) |
147 | [what did he do when he was in the woods?](options.html) | 133 | [Waiting for a reading to start](the-sea_the-beach.html) |
148 | 134 | [We found your shirt deep in the dark water,](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html) | |
149 | ["What do you do all day in that shed out back" his mother asked one night while they ate dinner in front of the TV.](shed.html) | 135 | [I wish I'd kissed you when I had the chance.](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html) |
150 | 136 | [There are more modern ideals of beauty](todaniel.html) | |
151 | [What is a poem?](manifesto_poetics.html) | 137 | [Paul only did his reading on the toilet.](toilet.html) |
152 | [What is poetry?](arspoetica.html) | 138 | [He couldn't find a shirt to go to work in.](toothpaste.html) |
153 | [What secrets does it hold?](largest-asteroid.html) | 139 | [TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY](treatise.html) |
154 | [When I think of death I think](death-zone.html), | 140 | [He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.](underwear.html) |
155 | [when Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,](ronaldmcdonald.html) | 141 | [I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence](walking-in-the-rain.html) |
156 | [when he finally got back to work, he was surprised they threw him a party.](punch.html) | 142 | [He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.](wallpaper.html) |
157 | [When he said Bible I heard his southern accent](boy_bus.html): | 143 | [I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game](weplayedthosegamestoo.html) |
158 | [whenever you call me friend](100-lines.html) | 144 | [There is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.](what-we-are-made-of.html) |
159 | [while chopping a tree in the woods with his hatchet (a Christmas gift from his mother) a bird he'd never heard before cried out.](x-ray.html) | ||
160 | [While swimming in the river](no-nothing.html): | ||
161 | [YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.](early.html) | ||
162 | |||
163 | [You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.](feedingtheraven.html) | ||
164 | [You think building Hoggle's a hard game?](hard-game.html) | ||
165 | [Your casserole dish takes the longest:](when-im-sorry-i.html) | 145 | [Your casserole dish takes the longest:](when-im-sorry-i.html) |
166 | [in mammals the ratio between bladder size](something-simple.html) | 146 | [_**HYMN 386: JOKES**_](window.html) |
167 | [has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.](collage-instrument.html) | 147 | [Somewhere I remember reading advice for beginning writers not to show their work to anyone, at least that in the early stages.](words-irritable-reaching.html) |
148 | ["How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, / and frightening that it does not quite," Jack Gilbert opens his poem "The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart."](words-meaning.html) | ||
149 | [The radio is screaming the man](worse-looking-over.html) | ||
150 | [He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.](writing.html) | ||
151 | [While chopping a tree in the woods with his hatchet (a Christmas gift from his mother) a bird he'd never heard before cried out.](x-ray.html) | ||
152 | [He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.](yellow.html) | ||
diff --git a/howithappened.txt b/howithappened.txt index 4e606f4..c592c67 100644 --- a/howithappened.txt +++ b/howithappened.txt | |||
@@ -15,22 +15,22 @@ project: | |||
15 | link: lovesong | 15 | link: lovesong |
16 | ... | 16 | ... |
17 | 17 | ||
18 | I was away on vacation when I heard--- \ | 18 | | I was away on vacation when I heard--- |
19 | someone sat at my desk while I was away. \ | 19 | | someone sat at my desk while I was away. |
20 | They took my pen, while I was taking \ | 20 | | They took my pen, while I was taking |
21 | surf lessons, and wrote the sun into the sky. \ | 21 | | surf lessons, and wrote the sun into the sky. |
22 | They pre-approved the earth and the waters, \ | 22 | | They pre-approved the earth and the waters, |
23 | and all of the living things, without even \ | 23 | | and all of the living things, without even |
24 | having the decency to text me. It was not I \ | 24 | | having the decency to text me. It was not I |
25 | who was behind the phrase "creeping things." \ | 25 | | who was behind the phrase "creeping things." |
26 | When I got back, of course I was pissed, \ | 26 | | When I got back, of course I was pissed, |
27 | but it was [already written][] into the policy. \ | 27 | | but it was [already written][] into the policy. |
28 | I'm just saying: don't blame me for Cain \ | 28 | | I'm just saying: don't blame me for Cain |
29 | killing Abel. That was a murder. I'm not a cop. \ | 29 | | killing Abel. That was a murder. I'm not a cop. |
30 | The Tower of Babel fell on its own. The ark \ | 30 | | The Tower of Babel fell on its own. The ark |
31 | never saw a single drop of rain. I'm [the drunk][] \ | 31 | | never saw a single drop of rain. I'm [the drunk][] |
32 | sitting on the curb who just pissed his pants, \ | 32 | | sitting on the curb who just pissed his pants, |
33 | holding up a sign asking where I am. | 33 | | holding up a sign asking where I am. |
34 | 34 | ||
35 | [already written]: shipwright.html | 35 | [already written]: shipwright.html |
36 | [the drunk]: problems.html | 36 | [the drunk]: problems.html |
diff --git a/lappel-du-vide.txt b/lappel-du-vide.txt index 49c4da9..77ac2e9 100644 --- a/lappel-du-vide.txt +++ b/lappel-du-vide.txt | |||
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ project: | |||
24 | link: love-as-god | 24 | link: love-as-god |
25 | ... | 25 | ... |
26 | 26 | ||
27 | I. Walter | 27 | ## I. Walter |
28 | --------- | ||
29 | 28 | ||
30 | Walter [rides the bus][] into work on Wednesday morning when he realizes, with the force and surprise of a rogue current, that he is in the home-for-death phase of life. | 29 | Walter [rides the bus][] into work on Wednesday morning when he realizes, with the force and surprise of a rogue current, that he is in the home-for-death phase of life. |
31 | That era in which the next time he goes under, to the fields of seaweed waving gently, the anemones slowly filtering seawater, it will most likely be for a death in the family. | 30 | That era in which the next time he goes under, to the fields of seaweed waving gently, the anemones slowly filtering seawater, it will most likely be for a death in the family. |
@@ -44,8 +43,7 @@ The problem was that the best wasn't good enough. | |||
44 | 43 | ||
45 | [accounting firm]: telemarketer.html | 44 | [accounting firm]: telemarketer.html |
46 | 45 | ||
47 | II. L'appel du vide {.verse} | 46 | ## II. L'appel du vide {.verse} |
48 | ------------------- | ||
49 | 47 | ||
50 | And I'll get in my car and drive \ | 48 | And I'll get in my car and drive \ |
51 | and I'll want to keep driving \ | 49 | and I'll want to keep driving \ |
diff --git a/makefile b/makefile index 4808e11..c6fc575 100644 --- a/makefile +++ b/makefile | |||
@@ -10,9 +10,13 @@ trunk := trunk | |||
10 | metas = hapax first-lines common-titles index | 10 | metas = hapax first-lines common-titles index |
11 | metas += $(templates) | 11 | metas += $(templates) |
12 | 12 | ||
13 | txts = $(filter-out \ | ||
14 | $(patsubst %,%.txt,$(metas)),\ | ||
15 | $(srcs)) | ||
16 | |||
13 | htmls = $(filter-out \ | 17 | htmls = $(filter-out \ |
14 | $(patsubst %,%.html,$(metas)),\ | 18 | $(patsubst %,%.html,$(metas)),\ |
15 | $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(srcs))) | 19 | $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(srcs))) |
16 | htmlPre = $(trunk)/versify.exe | 20 | htmlPre = $(trunk)/versify.exe |
17 | htmlPreSrc = $(trunk)/versify.hs | 21 | htmlPreSrc = $(trunk)/versify.hs |
18 | htmlTemplate = _template.html | 22 | htmlTemplate = _template.html |
@@ -24,8 +28,8 @@ lozenger = $(trunk)/lozenge.sh | |||
24 | lozengeOut = $(trunk)/lozenge.js | 28 | lozengeOut = $(trunk)/lozenge.js |
25 | 29 | ||
26 | hapaxs = $(filter-out \ | 30 | hapaxs = $(filter-out \ |
27 | $(patsubst %,%.hapax,$(metas)),\ | 31 | $(patsubst %,%.hapax,$(metas)),\ |
28 | $(patsubst %.txt,%.hapax,$(srcs))) | 32 | $(patsubst %.txt,%.hapax,$(srcs))) |
29 | hapaxer = $(trunk)/hapax.lua | 33 | hapaxer = $(trunk)/hapax.lua |
30 | hapaxPre = $(trunk)/forceascii.exe | 34 | hapaxPre = $(trunk)/forceascii.exe |
31 | hapaxPreSrc = $(trunk)/forceascii.hs | 35 | hapaxPreSrc = $(trunk)/forceascii.hs |
@@ -39,10 +43,19 @@ backHtms = $(patsubst %.back,%_backlinks.htm,$(backTxts)) | |||
39 | backHead = $(trunk)/backlink.head | 43 | backHead = $(trunk)/backlink.head |
40 | backlinker = $(trunk)/backlink.sh | 44 | backlinker = $(trunk)/backlink.sh |
41 | backPandocOptions = --template=$(htmlTemplate) --smart | 45 | backPandocOptions = --template=$(htmlTemplate) --smart |
46 | |||
47 | firstLinesTxt = first-lines.txt | ||
48 | firstLinesOut = first-lines.html | ||
49 | firstLiner = $(trunk)/first-lines.sh | ||
50 | firstLinesHead = $(trunk)/first-lines.head | ||
51 | commonTitlesTxt = common-titles.txt | ||
52 | commonTitlesOut = common-titles.html | ||
53 | commonTitler = $(trunk)/common-titles.sh | ||
54 | commonTitlesHead = $(trunk)/common-titles.head | ||
42 | # }}} | 55 | # }}} |
43 | 56 | ||
44 | .PHONY: all | 57 | .PHONY: all |
45 | all: $(hapaxOut)\ | 58 | all: $(hapaxOut) $(firstLinesOut) $(commonTitlesOut)\ |
46 | $(htmlPre) $(htmls) $(lozengeOut)\ | 59 | $(htmlPre) $(htmls) $(lozengeOut)\ |
47 | $(backTxts) $(backHtms) | 60 | $(backTxts) $(backHtms) |
48 | 61 | ||
@@ -61,7 +74,7 @@ $(lozengeOut): $(htmls) | |||
61 | @bash $(backlinker) $< $@ $(backHead) $(htmls) | 74 | @bash $(backlinker) $< $@ $(backHead) $(htmls) |
62 | 75 | ||
63 | %_backlinks.htm: %.back | $(htmlTemplate) | 76 | %_backlinks.htm: %.back | $(htmlTemplate) |
64 | pandoc $< -t html5 $(backPandocOptions) -o $@ && rm $< | 77 | pandoc $< -t html5 $(backPandocOptions) -o $@ |
65 | # }}} | 78 | # }}} |
66 | # HAPAX {{{ | 79 | # HAPAX {{{ |
67 | $(hapaxPre): $(hapaxPreSrc) | 80 | $(hapaxPre): $(hapaxPreSrc) |
@@ -73,15 +86,26 @@ $(hapaxPre): $(hapaxPreSrc) | |||
73 | $(hapaxOut): $(hapaxs) | $(hapaxPre) $(hapaxLinker) $(hapaxHead) | 86 | $(hapaxOut): $(hapaxs) | $(hapaxPre) $(hapaxLinker) $(hapaxHead) |
74 | pandoc $^ -t $(hapaxer) -o $(hapaxOut) | 87 | pandoc $^ -t $(hapaxer) -o $(hapaxOut) |
75 | @bash $(hapaxLinker) $@ $(hapaxHead) $^ | 88 | @bash $(hapaxLinker) $@ $(hapaxHead) $^ |
76 | -rm *.hapax | ||
77 | # }}} | 89 | # }}} |
78 | # FIRST LINES & COMMON TITLES {{{ | 90 | # FIRST LINES & COMMON TITLES {{{ |
79 | # TODO | 91 | $(firstLinesTxt): $(txts) | $(firstLiner) $(firstLinesHead) |
92 | @bash $(firstLiner) $@ $(firstLinesHead) $^ | ||
93 | |||
94 | $(firstLinesOut): $(firstLinesTxt) | $(htmlTemplate) $(htmlPre) | ||
95 | pandoc $< -t html5 $(htmlPandocOptions) -o $@ | ||
96 | |||
97 | $(commonTitlesTxt): $(txts) | $(commonTitler) $(commonTitlesHead) | ||
98 | @bash $(commonTitler) $@ $(commonTitlesHead) $^ | ||
99 | |||
100 | $(commonTitlesOut): $(commonTitlesTxt) | $(htmlTemplate) $(htmlPre) | ||
101 | pandoc $< -t html5 $(htmlPandocOptions) -o $@ | ||
80 | # }}} | 102 | # }}} |
81 | # CLEAN {{{ | 103 | # CLEAN {{{ |
82 | .PHONY: clean | 104 | .PHONY: clean |
83 | clean: | 105 | clean: |
84 | -rm -f $(hapaxs) $(hapaxOut) | 106 | -rm -f $(hapaxs) $(hapaxOut) |
107 | -rm -f $(firstLinesOut) $(firstLinesTxt) | ||
108 | -rm -f $(commonTitlesOut) $(commonTitlesTxt) | ||
85 | -rm -f $(htmls) | 109 | -rm -f $(htmls) |
86 | -rm -f $(backHtms) | 110 | -rm -f $(backHtms) |
87 | -rm -f *.tmp trunk/*.tmp | 111 | -rm -f *.tmp trunk/*.tmp |
diff --git a/process.txt b/process.txt index 080dd0d..e3f3793 100644 --- a/process.txt +++ b/process.txt | |||
@@ -9,15 +9,13 @@ project: | |||
9 | class: meta | 9 | class: meta |
10 | ... | 10 | ... |
11 | 11 | ||
12 | Hi. My name is Case Duckworth. This is my thesis. | 12 | ## Hi. My name is Case Duckworth. This is my thesis. |
13 | --------------------------------------------------- | ||
14 | 13 | ||
15 | _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. | 14 | _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. |
16 | I've compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole. | 15 | I've compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole. |
17 | To make this easier than collating everything by hand, I've relied on a process that leverages open-source technologies to publish my work onto a web platform. | 16 | To make this easier than collating everything by hand, I've relied on a process that leverages open-source technologies to publish my work onto a web platform. |
18 | 17 | ||
19 | Process steps | 18 | ## Process steps |
20 | ------------- | ||
21 | 19 | ||
22 | 1. Write poems. | 20 | 1. Write poems. |
23 | 2. Convert to Markdown. | 21 | 2. Convert to Markdown. |
@@ -51,8 +49,7 @@ Process steps | |||
51 | - As of now, I've completed a _[Hapax legomenon][]_ compiler, a [back-link][] compiler, and an updater for the [random link functionality][] that's on this site. | 49 | - As of now, I've completed a _[Hapax legomenon][]_ compiler, a [back-link][] compiler, and an updater for the [random link functionality][] that's on this site. |
52 | - I'd like to build a compiler for the [Index of first lines][] and [Index of common titles][] once I have time. | 50 | - I'd like to build a compiler for the [Index of first lines][] and [Index of common titles][] once I have time. |
53 | 51 | ||
54 | The beauty of this system | 52 | ## The beauty of this system |
55 | ------------------------- | ||
56 | 53 | ||
57 | - I can compile these poems into (almost) any format: `pandoc` supports a lot. | 54 | - I can compile these poems into (almost) any format: `pandoc` supports a lot. |
58 | - Once I complete the above process once, I can focus on revising my poems. | 55 | - Once I complete the above process once, I can focus on revising my poems. |
diff --git a/question_backlinks.htm b/question_backlinks.htm index 0094634..24b3946 100644 --- a/question_backlinks.htm +++ b/question_backlinks.htm | |||
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ | |||
38 | <section class="content list"> | 38 | <section class="content list"> |
39 | <ul> | 39 | <ul> |
40 | <li><a href="exasperated.html">Exasperated</a></li> | 40 | <li><a href="exasperated.html">Exasperated</a></li> |
41 | <li><a href="i-want-to-say.html">I want to say</a></li> | 41 | <li><a href="i-want-to-say.html">I want to say</a> punch.html</li> |
42 | <li><a href="punch.html">Punch</a></li> | ||
43 | <li><a href="reports.html">Reports</a></li> | 42 | <li><a href="reports.html">Reports</a></li> |
44 | <li><a href="sapling.html">Sapling</a></li> | 43 | <li><a href="sapling.html">Sapling</a></li> |
45 | <li><a href="window.html">Window</a></li> | 44 | <li><a href="window.html">Window</a></li> |
diff --git a/statements-frag.txt b/statements-frag.txt index 63d160c..ef943f2 100644 --- a/statements-frag.txt +++ b/statements-frag.txt | |||
@@ -9,8 +9,7 @@ project: | |||
9 | class: autocento | 9 | class: autocento |
10 | ... | 10 | ... |
11 | 11 | ||
12 | I. Eli {#eli} | 12 | ## I. Eli {#eli} |
13 | ------ | ||
14 | 13 | ||
15 | "Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie. | 14 | "Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie. |
16 | He was in the bathroom, & had taken the walkie-talkie in with him absent-mindedly. | 15 | He was in the bathroom, & had taken the walkie-talkie in with him absent-mindedly. |
@@ -44,8 +43,7 @@ So I walked around the coffee table as he sat down, not looking at me anymore, a | |||
44 | The blanket I had been sitting in was crumpled next to him like a dead bird. | 43 | The blanket I had been sitting in was crumpled next to him like a dead bird. |
45 | I opened my mouth but thought better of talking, and closed the door behind me slowly. | 44 | I opened my mouth but thought better of talking, and closed the door behind me slowly. |
46 | 45 | ||
47 | II. Dimorphic {#dimorphic .verse} | 46 | ## II. Dimorphic {#dimorphic .verse} |
48 | ------------- | ||
49 | 47 | ||
50 | [Oranges][]. Poison. A compromise \ | 48 | [Oranges][]. Poison. A compromise \ |
51 | between Mary & [Judas][]. Blue \ | 49 | between Mary & [Judas][]. Blue \ |
@@ -58,8 +56,7 @@ has a seething mass of eels \ | |||
58 | for a brain, mating in the water so forcefully \ | 56 | for a brain, mating in the water so forcefully \ |
59 | that it could [drown you under the moon][]. | 57 | that it could [drown you under the moon][]. |
60 | 58 | ||
61 | III. Declaration of Poetry {#declaration-of-poetry} | 59 | ## III. Declaration of Poetry {#declaration-of-poetry} |
62 | -------------------------- | ||
63 | 60 | ||
64 | You have to go one line at a time, and you have to start on the first or second line. | 61 | You have to go one line at a time, and you have to start on the first or second line. |
65 | 62 | ||
diff --git a/trunk/common-titles.head b/trunk/common-titles.head new file mode 100644 index 0000000..705647d --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/common-titles.head | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ | |||
1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
3 | id: common-titles | ||
4 | subtitle: index of common titles | ||
5 | genre: prose | ||
6 | |||
7 | project: | ||
8 | title: About Autocento | ||
9 | class: meta | ||
10 | next: | ||
11 | - title: Index of first lines | ||
12 | link: first-lines | ||
13 | prev: | ||
14 | - title: About _Autocento_ | ||
15 | link: about | ||
16 | ... | ||
17 | |||
diff --git a/trunk/common-titles.sh b/trunk/common-titles.sh new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9bc0de8 --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/common-titles.sh | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ | |||
1 | #!/bin/bash | ||
2 | |||
3 | outFile="$1"; | ||
4 | header="$2"; | ||
5 | shift 2; | ||
6 | glob="$@"; | ||
7 | |||
8 | echo -n "Compiling ${outFile}..."; | ||
9 | cat "$header" > $outFile; | ||
10 | |||
11 | for file in $glob; do | ||
12 | # Copy title to $outFile & link | ||
13 | title="$(grep '^title:' "$file" | cut -d' ' -f2- | sed 's/"//g')"; | ||
14 | if (( $RANDOM % 13 == 0 )); then | ||
15 | echo -n "| "; | ||
16 | else | ||
17 | echo -n " "; | ||
18 | fi | ||
19 | echo "[$title](${file%.*}.html)" >> "$outFile"; | ||
20 | done | ||
21 | echo "Done."; | ||
diff --git a/trunk/first-lines.head b/trunk/first-lines.head new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f73b410 --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/first-lines.head | |||
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ | |||
1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Autocento of the breakfast table | ||
3 | id: first-lines | ||
4 | subtitle: index of first lines | ||
5 | genre: prose | ||
6 | |||
7 | project: | ||
8 | title: About Autocento | ||
9 | class: meta | ||
10 | next: | ||
11 | - title: About _Autocento_ | ||
12 | link: about | ||
13 | prev: | ||
14 | - title: Index of common titles | ||
15 | link: common-titles | ||
16 | ... | ||
17 | |||
diff --git a/trunk/first-lines.sh b/trunk/first-lines.sh index 50b0e0c..37b7291 100644 --- a/trunk/first-lines.sh +++ b/trunk/first-lines.sh | |||
@@ -1,17 +1,27 @@ | |||
1 | #!/bin/bash | 1 | #!/bin/bash |
2 | 2 | ||
3 | outFile=src/first-lines.txt | 3 | outFile="$1"; |
4 | header="$2"; | ||
5 | shift 2; | ||
6 | glob="$@"; | ||
4 | 7 | ||
5 | echo "" > $outFile | 8 | firstLineOf() { # $1 = file |
9 | endOfYaml=$(sed -n '/^\.\.\.$/=' "$1") | ||
10 | tryLineNumber=$((endOfYaml + 1)) | ||
11 | try="" | ||
12 | while [[ -z $try ]]; do | ||
13 | try=$(head -n $tryLineNumber "$1" | tail -n 1 |\ | ||
14 | sed -e 's/^[|>] //' -e 's/[][]//g' -e 's/^#.*//' -e 's/^--.*//') | ||
15 | (( tryLineNumber += 1 )) | ||
16 | done | ||
17 | echo "$try" | ||
18 | } | ||
6 | 19 | ||
7 | for file in src/*.txt; do | 20 | echo -n "Compiling ${outFile}..." |
8 | echo -n "Getting first line of $file .. " | 21 | cat "$header" > $outFile |
9 | endOfYAML=$(sed -n '/^\.\.\.$/=' "$file") | ||
10 | firstLineNumber=$((endOfYAML + 2)) | ||
11 | 22 | ||
12 | echo "$file: " >> $outFile | 23 | for file in $glob; do |
13 | echo " $(head -n $firstLineNumber "$file" | tail -n 1)" >> $outFile | 24 | # Copy first line to $outFile & link |
14 | 25 | echo "[$(firstLineOf "$file")](${file%.*}.html)" >> $outFile | |
15 | unset endOfYAML firstLineNumber | ||
16 | echo "Done." | ||
17 | done | 26 | done |
27 | echo "Done." | ||