diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'tapestry.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tapestry.txt | 60 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 60 deletions
| diff --git a/tapestry.txt b/tapestry.txt deleted file mode 100644 index e621d90..0000000 --- a/tapestry.txt +++ /dev/null | |||
| @@ -1,60 +0,0 @@ | |||
| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Tapestry | ||
| 3 | genre: prose | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | id: tapestry | ||
| 6 | toc: "Tapestry" | ||
| 7 | |||
| 8 | project: | ||
| 9 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
| 10 | class: paul | ||
| 11 | order: 17 | ||
| 12 | next: | ||
| 13 | - title: Window | ||
| 14 | link: window | ||
| 15 | - title: Toilet | ||
| 16 | link: toilet | ||
| 17 | prev: | ||
| 18 | - title: Phone | ||
| 19 | link: phone | ||
| 20 | - title: Swear | ||
| 21 | link: swear | ||
| 22 | ... | ||
| 23 | |||
| 24 | _Apparently typewriters need ribbon. | ||
| 25 | Apparently ribbon is incredibly hard to find anymore because no one uses typewriters. | ||
| 26 | Apparently I am writing my hymns from now on._ | ||
| 27 | So he was back to calling his notes "hymns." | ||
| 28 | He looked up "hymns" in the dictionary. | ||
| 29 | It said that a hymn was "an ode or song of praise or adoration." | ||
| 30 | Praise or adoration to what? he asked himself. | ||
| 31 | He thought maybe furniture. | ||
| 32 | There was still a lot of notfurniture in what he was again calling his Writing Shack. | ||
| 33 | |||
| 34 | The dictionary also had this to say about "hymn": that it was possibly related to the old Greek word for "[weave][]." | ||
| 35 | "[Weave what][]" Paul wondered to himself. | ||
| 36 | He wrote this down on a new notecard. | ||
| 37 | _Apparently "hymn" means weave somehow. | ||
| 38 | Or it used to. | ||
| 39 | Or its cousin did. | ||
| 40 | What is it weaving? | ||
| 41 | Who is it weaving for? | ||
| 42 | I remember in school we talked about Odysseus and his wife Penelope, who wove a tapestry every day just to take it apart at night. | ||
| 43 | I forget why._ | ||
| 44 | |||
| 45 | _Maybe she wove the tapestry for Odysseus. | ||
| 46 | Maybe she wove it for herself. | ||
| 47 | What did she weave it of? | ||
| 48 | [Memory][], maybe? | ||
| 49 | [Or dream][]? | ||
| 50 | I think these words make a kind of tapestry, or at least the thread it will be made of. | ||
| 51 | I will weave a hymn to the gods of Literature, out of fiction. | ||
| 52 | My furniture was a try at weaving, but I am shit at furniture. | ||
| 53 | So writing it is again._ | ||
| 54 | |||
| 55 | He wrote _**NOTES FOR A HYMN**_ at the top of this notecard. | ||
| 56 | |||
| 57 | [weave]: likingthings.html | ||
| 58 | [Weave what]: roughgloves.html | ||
| 59 | [Memory]: ouroboros_memory.html | ||
| 60 | [Or dream]: in-bed.html | ||