From cbd5199529209059be3bde0d6572a1ba192b84d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:22:15 -0700 Subject: Add Elegies; template; pandoc compile script --- 99-elegyforanalternateself.txt | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) create mode 100644 99-elegyforanalternateself.txt (limited to '99-elegyforanalternateself.txt') diff --git a/99-elegyforanalternateself.txt b/99-elegyforanalternateself.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cb297d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/99-elegyforanalternateself.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +title: 'Elegy for an alternate self' +project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' +... + +Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined \ +from birth, or better still, say we are myself. \ +---But I still talk to myself, I build my world \ +through language, so if we say there are no words \ +this is not enough. Say we are instead some animal, \ +or better yet, a plant, or a flagellum motoring \ +aimlessly around. (Say that humans are the only things \ +that reason. Say that we're the only things that worry.) + +Say that I am separate. To say there's everything else \ +and then there's me is wrong. Each thing is separate: \ +there is no whole in the world. Say this is both good \ +and bad, or rather, say there is no good or bad but only \ +being, more and more of it always added, none taken out \ +though it can be forgotten. Say that forgetting \ +is a function of our remembering. (Say that humans only \ +worry about separation. Say that only humans feel it.) -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81