diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'river/about.river')
-rw-r--r-- | river/about.river | 948 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 948 deletions
diff --git a/river/about.river b/river/about.river deleted file mode 100644 index 341c0be..0000000 --- a/river/about.river +++ /dev/null | |||
@@ -1,948 +0,0 @@ | |||
1 | introduction | ||
2 | autocento | ||
3 | of | ||
4 | the | ||
5 | breakfast | ||
6 | table | ||
7 | is | ||
8 | a | ||
9 | hypertextual | ||
10 | exploration | ||
11 | of | ||
12 | the | ||
13 | workings | ||
14 | of | ||
15 | revision | ||
16 | across | ||
17 | time | ||
18 | somebody | ||
19 | citation | ||
20 | needed | ||
21 | once | ||
22 | said | ||
23 | that | ||
24 | every | ||
25 | relationship | ||
26 | we | ||
27 | have | ||
28 | is | ||
29 | part | ||
30 | of | ||
31 | the | ||
32 | same | ||
33 | relationship | ||
34 | the | ||
35 | same | ||
36 | is | ||
37 | true | ||
38 | of | ||
39 | authorship | ||
40 | as | ||
41 | we | ||
42 | write | ||
43 | as | ||
44 | we | ||
45 | continue | ||
46 | writing | ||
47 | across | ||
48 | our | ||
49 | lives | ||
50 | patterns | ||
51 | thread | ||
52 | themselves | ||
53 | through | ||
54 | our | ||
55 | work | ||
56 | images | ||
57 | certain | ||
58 | phrases | ||
59 | preoccupations | ||
60 | this | ||
61 | project | ||
62 | attempts | ||
63 | to | ||
64 | make | ||
65 | those | ||
66 | threads | ||
67 | more | ||
68 | apparent | ||
69 | using | ||
70 | the | ||
71 | technology | ||
72 | of | ||
73 | hypertext | ||
74 | i'm | ||
75 | also | ||
76 | an | ||
77 | mfa | ||
78 | candidate | ||
79 | at | ||
80 | northern | ||
81 | arizona | ||
82 | university | ||
83 | nau | ||
84 | this | ||
85 | is | ||
86 | my | ||
87 | thesis | ||
88 | genesis | ||
89 | this | ||
90 | project | ||
91 | revolves | ||
92 | around | ||
93 | two | ||
94 | sister | ||
95 | concepts | ||
96 | the | ||
97 | hapax | ||
98 | legomenon | ||
99 | and | ||
100 | the | ||
101 | cento | ||
102 | hapax | ||
103 | legomenon | ||
104 | is | ||
105 | greek | ||
106 | for | ||
107 | something | ||
108 | said | ||
109 | only | ||
110 | once | ||
111 | it's | ||
112 | used | ||
113 | in | ||
114 | linguistics | ||
115 | to | ||
116 | describe | ||
117 | words | ||
118 | that | ||
119 | appear | ||
120 | only | ||
121 | once | ||
122 | in | ||
123 | a | ||
124 | corpus | ||
125 | if | ||
126 | expanded | ||
127 | to | ||
128 | n-grams | ||
129 | it | ||
130 | can | ||
131 | be | ||
132 | used | ||
133 | to | ||
134 | describe | ||
135 | utterances | ||
136 | that | ||
137 | occur | ||
138 | only | ||
139 | once | ||
140 | and | ||
141 | this | ||
142 | is | ||
143 | where | ||
144 | it | ||
145 | gets | ||
146 | interesting | ||
147 | if | ||
148 | this | ||
149 | line | ||
150 | of | ||
151 | thinking | ||
152 | is | ||
153 | taken | ||
154 | to | ||
155 | its | ||
156 | logical | ||
157 | conclusion | ||
158 | we | ||
159 | can | ||
160 | say | ||
161 | that | ||
162 | all | ||
163 | writing | ||
164 | all | ||
165 | utterances | ||
166 | are | ||
167 | hapax | ||
168 | legomena | ||
169 | because | ||
170 | they | ||
171 | appear | ||
172 | only | ||
173 | once | ||
174 | in | ||
175 | the | ||
176 | world | ||
177 | as | ||
178 | they | ||
179 | are | ||
180 | in | ||
181 | short | ||
182 | everything | ||
183 | is | ||
184 | individual | ||
185 | everything | ||
186 | is | ||
187 | differentiated | ||
188 | everything | ||
189 | is | ||
190 | an | ||
191 | island | ||
192 | on | ||
193 | the | ||
194 | other | ||
195 | hand | ||
196 | a | ||
197 | cento | ||
198 | from | ||
199 | the | ||
200 | latin | ||
201 | from | ||
202 | the | ||
203 | greek | ||
204 | meaning | ||
205 | patchwork | ||
206 | garment | ||
207 | is | ||
208 | a | ||
209 | poem | ||
210 | composed | ||
211 | completely | ||
212 | of | ||
213 | fragments | ||
214 | of | ||
215 | other | ||
216 | poems | ||
217 | it's | ||
218 | a | ||
219 | mash-up | ||
220 | that | ||
221 | makes | ||
222 | up | ||
223 | for | ||
224 | its | ||
225 | lack | ||
226 | of | ||
227 | originality | ||
228 | in | ||
229 | utterance | ||
230 | with | ||
231 | a | ||
232 | novelty | ||
233 | in | ||
234 | arrangement | ||
235 | usually | ||
236 | it | ||
237 | refers | ||
238 | to | ||
239 | taking | ||
240 | phrases | ||
241 | lines | ||
242 | or | ||
243 | stanzas | ||
244 | from | ||
245 | other | ||
246 | authors | ||
247 | works | ||
248 | but | ||
249 | i | ||
250 | don't | ||
251 | see | ||
252 | why | ||
253 | it | ||
254 | couldn't | ||
255 | refer | ||
256 | to | ||
257 | n-grams | ||
258 | or | ||
259 | individual | ||
260 | words | ||
261 | if | ||
262 | this | ||
263 | line | ||
264 | of | ||
265 | thinking | ||
266 | is | ||
267 | taken | ||
268 | to | ||
269 | its | ||
270 | logical | ||
271 | conclusion | ||
272 | we | ||
273 | can | ||
274 | say | ||
275 | that | ||
276 | no | ||
277 | writing | ||
278 | is | ||
279 | truly | ||
280 | original | ||
281 | that | ||
282 | every | ||
283 | utterance | ||
284 | has | ||
285 | in | ||
286 | some | ||
287 | scrambled | ||
288 | way | ||
289 | at | ||
290 | least | ||
291 | been | ||
292 | uttered | ||
293 | before | ||
294 | in | ||
295 | other | ||
296 | words | ||
297 | nothing | ||
298 | is | ||
299 | individual | ||
300 | we | ||
301 | float | ||
302 | on | ||
303 | an | ||
304 | ocean | ||
305 | of | ||
306 | language | ||
307 | which | ||
308 | we | ||
309 | did | ||
310 | nothing | ||
311 | to | ||
312 | create | ||
313 | and | ||
314 | the | ||
315 | best | ||
316 | we | ||
317 | can | ||
318 | hope | ||
319 | for | ||
320 | is | ||
321 | to | ||
322 | find | ||
323 | some | ||
324 | combination | ||
325 | that | ||
326 | hasn't | ||
327 | been | ||
328 | thought | ||
329 | of | ||
330 | too | ||
331 | many | ||
332 | times | ||
333 | before | ||
334 | as | ||
335 | solomon | ||
336 | said | ||
337 | there | ||
338 | is | ||
339 | nothing | ||
340 | new | ||
341 | under | ||
342 | the | ||
343 | sun | ||
344 | autocento | ||
345 | of | ||
346 | the | ||
347 | breakfast | ||
348 | table | ||
349 | works | ||
350 | within | ||
351 | the | ||
352 | tension | ||
353 | caused | ||
354 | by | ||
355 | these | ||
356 | two | ||
357 | concepts | ||
358 | process | ||
359 | in | ||
360 | compiling | ||
361 | the | ||
362 | works | ||
363 | that | ||
364 | make | ||
365 | up | ||
366 | this | ||
367 | text | ||
368 | i've | ||
369 | pulled | ||
370 | from | ||
371 | a | ||
372 | few | ||
373 | different | ||
374 | projects | ||
375 | elegies | ||
376 | for | ||
377 | alternate | ||
378 | selves | ||
379 | and | ||
380 | html | ||
381 | the | ||
382 | book | ||
383 | of | ||
384 | hezekiah | ||
385 | prelude | ||
386 | html | ||
387 | stark | ||
388 | raving | ||
389 | table | ||
390 | contents | ||
391 | html | ||
392 | buildings | ||
393 | out | ||
394 | of | ||
395 | air | ||
396 | art | ||
397 | html | ||
398 | as | ||
399 | well | ||
400 | as | ||
401 | added | ||
402 | new | ||
403 | articles | ||
404 | written | ||
405 | quite | ||
406 | recently | ||
407 | as | ||
408 | i've | ||
409 | compiled | ||
410 | them | ||
411 | into | ||
412 | this | ||
413 | project | ||
414 | i've | ||
415 | linked | ||
416 | them | ||
417 | together | ||
418 | based | ||
419 | on | ||
420 | common | ||
421 | images | ||
422 | or | ||
423 | language | ||
424 | moving | ||
425 | back | ||
426 | and | ||
427 | forth | ||
428 | through | ||
429 | time | ||
430 | this | ||
431 | should | ||
432 | give | ||
433 | the | ||
434 | reader | ||
435 | a | ||
436 | fair | ||
437 | idea | ||
438 | of | ||
439 | what | ||
440 | my | ||
441 | head | ||
442 | looks | ||
443 | like | ||
444 | on | ||
445 | the | ||
446 | inside | ||
447 | technology | ||
448 | because | ||
449 | this | ||
450 | project | ||
451 | lives | ||
452 | online | ||
453 | i've | ||
454 | used | ||
455 | a | ||
456 | fair | ||
457 | amount | ||
458 | of | ||
459 | technology | ||
460 | to | ||
461 | get | ||
462 | it | ||
463 | there | ||
464 | first | ||
465 | i | ||
466 | converted | ||
467 | all | ||
468 | the | ||
469 | articles1 | ||
470 | present | ||
471 | into | ||
472 | plain | ||
473 | text | ||
474 | files | ||
475 | which | ||
476 | are | ||
477 | viewable | ||
478 | here | ||
479 | then | ||
480 | i | ||
481 | used | ||
482 | john | ||
483 | mcfarlane's | ||
484 | venerable | ||
485 | document | ||
486 | preparation | ||
487 | system | ||
488 | pandoc | ||
489 | along | ||
490 | with | ||
491 | a | ||
492 | short | ||
493 | script | ||
494 | to | ||
495 | compile | ||
496 | the | ||
497 | text | ||
498 | sources | ||
499 | to | ||
500 | html | ||
501 | using | ||
502 | this | ||
503 | template | ||
504 | the | ||
505 | compiled | ||
506 | html | ||
507 | is | ||
508 | what | ||
509 | you're | ||
510 | reading | ||
511 | now | ||
512 | 2 | ||
513 | to | ||
514 | host | ||
515 | the | ||
516 | project | ||
517 | i'm | ||
518 | using | ||
519 | github | ||
520 | an | ||
521 | online | ||
522 | code-collaboration | ||
523 | tool | ||
524 | with | ||
525 | the | ||
526 | version | ||
527 | control | ||
528 | system | ||
529 | git | ||
530 | under | ||
531 | the | ||
532 | hood | ||
533 | this | ||
534 | enables | ||
535 | me | ||
536 | and | ||
537 | you | ||
538 | dear | ||
539 | reader | ||
540 | to | ||
541 | explore | ||
542 | the | ||
543 | path | ||
544 | of | ||
545 | revision | ||
546 | even | ||
547 | more | ||
548 | from | ||
549 | beginning | ||
550 | to | ||
551 | end | ||
552 | based | ||
553 | on | ||
554 | my | ||
555 | commits | ||
556 | to | ||
557 | the | ||
558 | repository | ||
559 | you | ||
560 | can | ||
561 | view | ||
562 | the | ||
563 | repository | ||
564 | and | ||
565 | its | ||
566 | changes | ||
567 | and | ||
568 | files | ||
569 | at | ||
570 | my | ||
571 | github | ||
572 | profile | ||
573 | 3 | ||
574 | using | ||
575 | this | ||
576 | site | ||
577 | all | ||
578 | of | ||
579 | the | ||
580 | articles | ||
581 | on | ||
582 | this | ||
583 | site | ||
584 | are | ||
585 | linked | ||
586 | together | ||
587 | hypertextually | ||
588 | i | ||
589 | e | ||
590 | like | ||
591 | a | ||
592 | webpage | ||
593 | this | ||
594 | means | ||
595 | that | ||
596 | all | ||
597 | you | ||
598 | need | ||
599 | to | ||
600 | do | ||
601 | to | ||
602 | explore | ||
603 | the | ||
604 | creative | ||
605 | threads | ||
606 | linking | ||
607 | these | ||
608 | articles | ||
609 | together | ||
610 | is | ||
611 | to | ||
612 | start | ||
613 | clicking | ||
614 | links | ||
615 | however | ||
616 | if | ||
617 | you | ||
618 | find | ||
619 | you're | ||
620 | looping | ||
621 | around | ||
622 | to | ||
623 | a | ||
624 | lot | ||
625 | of | ||
626 | the | ||
627 | same | ||
628 | articles | ||
629 | you | ||
630 | can | ||
631 | head | ||
632 | back | ||
633 | to | ||
634 | the | ||
635 | index | ||
636 | and | ||
637 | click | ||
638 | through | ||
639 | the | ||
640 | titles | ||
641 | in | ||
642 | order | ||
643 | that | ||
644 | article | ||
645 | contains | ||
646 | the | ||
647 | titles | ||
648 | of | ||
649 | all | ||
650 | the | ||
651 | other | ||
652 | works | ||
653 | in | ||
654 | this | ||
655 | project | ||
656 | alternatively | ||
657 | you | ||
658 | can | ||
659 | click | ||
660 | the | ||
661 | lozenge | ||
662 | loz | ||
663 | at | ||
664 | the | ||
665 | bottom | ||
666 | of | ||
667 | each | ||
668 | page | ||
669 | it'll | ||
670 | take | ||
671 | you | ||
672 | to | ||
673 | a | ||
674 | random | ||
675 | article | ||
676 | in | ||
677 | the | ||
678 | project | ||
679 | thanks | ||
680 | to | ||
681 | this | ||
682 | javascript | ||
683 | if | ||
684 | you | ||
685 | want | ||
686 | to | ||
687 | experience | ||
688 | the | ||
689 | earlier | ||
690 | projects | ||
691 | in | ||
692 | something | ||
693 | resembling | ||
694 | the | ||
695 | original | ||
696 | orders | ||
697 | previous | ||
698 | and | ||
699 | next | ||
700 | links | ||
701 | are | ||
702 | provided | ||
703 | at | ||
704 | the | ||
705 | bottom | ||
706 | of | ||
707 | each | ||
708 | page | ||
709 | next | ||
710 | to | ||
711 | the | ||
712 | lozenge | ||
713 | sometimes | ||
714 | there | ||
715 | are | ||
716 | more | ||
717 | than | ||
718 | one | ||
719 | of | ||
720 | each | ||
721 | of | ||
722 | these | ||
723 | or | ||
724 | there | ||
725 | are | ||
726 | none | ||
727 | dependant | ||
728 | on | ||
729 | the | ||
730 | structure | ||
731 | of | ||
732 | their | ||
733 | original | ||
734 | project | ||
735 | things | ||
736 | still | ||
737 | to | ||
738 | do | ||
739 | autocento | ||
740 | of | ||
741 | the | ||
742 | breakfast | ||
743 | table | ||
744 | is | ||
745 | a | ||
746 | work | ||
747 | in | ||
748 | progress | ||
749 | the | ||
750 | first | ||
751 | draft | ||
752 | is | ||
753 | completed | ||
754 | but | ||
755 | some | ||
756 | revision | ||
757 | and | ||
758 | aesthetic | ||
759 | work | ||
760 | remains | ||
761 | to | ||
762 | be | ||
763 | done | ||
764 | for | ||
765 | me | ||
766 | to | ||
767 | consider | ||
768 | it | ||
769 | fully | ||
770 | published | ||
771 | what | ||
772 | does | ||
773 | this | ||
774 | word | ||
775 | mean | ||
776 | in | ||
777 | 2015 | ||
778 | you | ||
779 | can | ||
780 | see | ||
781 | the | ||
782 | full | ||
783 | list | ||
784 | of | ||
785 | to-dos | ||
786 | by | ||
787 | visiting | ||
788 | the | ||
789 | issues | ||
790 | page | ||
791 | of | ||
792 | the | ||
793 | github | ||
794 | site | ||
795 | contact | ||
796 | me | ||
797 | if | ||
798 | you'd | ||
799 | like | ||
800 | to | ||
801 | contact | ||
802 | me | ||
803 | about | ||
804 | the | ||
805 | state | ||
806 | of | ||
807 | this | ||
808 | work | ||
809 | or | ||
810 | my | ||
811 | writing | ||
812 | in | ||
813 | general | ||
814 | you | ||
815 | can | ||
816 | |||
817 | me | ||
818 | at | ||
819 | case | ||
820 | autocento | ||
821 | me | ||
822 | links | ||
823 | footnotes | ||
824 | of | ||
825 | the | ||
826 | breakfast | ||
827 | table | ||
828 | http | ||
829 | //www | ||
830 | ibiblio | ||
831 | org/eldritch/owh/abt | ||
832 | html | ||
833 | citation | ||
834 | needed | ||
835 | https | ||
836 | //en | ||
837 | wikipedia | ||
838 | org/wiki/wikipedia | ||
839 | citing | ||
840 | sources | ||
841 | dealing | ||
842 | with | ||
843 | unsourced | ||
844 | material | ||
845 | nau | ||
846 | http | ||
847 | //nau | ||
848 | edu/cal/english/degrees-programs/graduate/mfa/ | ||
849 | i'm | ||
850 | aware | ||
851 | that | ||
852 | the | ||
853 | true | ||
854 | etymology | ||
855 | http | ||
856 | //www | ||
857 | etymonline | ||
858 | com/index | ||
859 | php | ||
860 | search | ||
861 | article | ||
862 | of | ||
863 | article | ||
864 | does | ||
865 | not | ||
866 | reflect | ||
867 | my | ||
868 | use | ||
869 | of | ||
870 | it | ||
871 | namely | ||
872 | a | ||
873 | little | ||
874 | chunk | ||
875 | of | ||
876 | art | ||
877 | a | ||
878 | la | ||
879 | the | ||
880 | personal | ||
881 | folk | ||
882 | derivation | ||
883 | of | ||
884 | icicle | ||
885 | treicle | ||
886 | etc | ||
887 | this | ||
888 | means | ||
889 | that | ||
890 | if | ||
891 | in | ||
892 | the | ||
893 | future | ||
894 | i | ||
895 | choose | ||
896 | to | ||
897 | convert | ||
898 | this | ||
899 | project | ||
900 | to | ||
901 | a | ||
902 | printable | ||
903 | form | ||
904 | for | ||
905 | example | ||
906 | |||
907 | odt | ||
908 | or | ||
909 | even | ||
910 | docx | ||
911 | i'll | ||
912 | be | ||
913 | able | ||
914 | to | ||
915 | with | ||
916 | a | ||
917 | fairly | ||
918 | small | ||
919 | amount | ||
920 | of | ||
921 | work | ||
922 | 3 | ||
923 | for | ||
924 | more | ||
925 | information | ||
926 | on | ||
927 | the | ||
928 | technological | ||
929 | aspect | ||
930 | of | ||
931 | this | ||
932 | project | ||
933 | see | ||
934 | the | ||
935 | readme | ||
936 | md | ||
937 | https | ||
938 | //github | ||
939 | com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/readme | ||
940 | md | ||
941 | file | ||
942 | at | ||
943 | the | ||
944 | root | ||
945 | of | ||
946 | the | ||
947 | github | ||
948 | repo | ||