Autocento of the breakfast table is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time. Somebody[citation needed] once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship. As we write, as we continue writing across our lives, patterns thread themselves through our work: images, certain phrases, preoccupations. This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology of hypertext.
This project revolves around two sister concepts: the hapax legomenon and the cento.
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Hapax legomenon (ἅπαξ λεγόμενον) is Greek for “something said only once.” It’s used in linguistics to describe words that appear only once in a corpus. If expanded to n-grams, it can be used to describe utterances that occur only once, and this is where it gets interesting. If this line of thinking is taken to its logical conclusion, we can say that all writing, all utterances, are hapax legomena, because they appear only once in the world as they are. In short, everything is individual; everything is differentiated; everything is an island.
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On the other hand, a cento, from the Latin, from the Greek κέντρόνη, meaning “patchwork garment,” is a poem composed completely of fragments of other poems. It’s a mash-up that makes up for its lack of originality in utterance with a novelty in arrangement. Usually, it refers to taking phrases, lines, or stanzas from other authors’ works, but I don’t see why it couldn’t refer to n-grams or individual words. If this line of thinking is taken to its logical conclusion, we can say that no writing is truly original; that every utterance has, in some scrambled way at least, been uttered before. In other words, nothing is individual. We float on an ocean of language which we did nothing to create, and the best we can hope for is to find some combination that hasn’t been thought of too many times before. As Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
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Autocento of the breakfast table works within the tension caused by these two concepts.
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-
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Process
-
In compiling the works that make up this text, I’ve pulled from a few different projects:
as well as added new articles, written quite recently. 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. This should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside.
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Technology
-
Because this project lives online, I’ve used a fair amount of technology to get it there. First, I converted all the articles1 present into plain text files, which are viewable here. Then, I used John McFarlane’s venerable document preparation system pandoc, along with a short script, to compile the text sources to HTML using this template. The compiled HTML is what you’re reading now.2
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To host the project, I’m using Github, an online code-collaboration tool with the version control system git under the hood. 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. You can view the repository and its changes and files at my Github profile.3
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-
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Using this site
-
All of the articles on this site are linked together hypertextually (i.e., like a webpage). This means that all you need to do to explore the creative threads linking these articles together is to start clicking links. However, if you find you’re looping around to a lot of the same articles, you can head back to the index and click through the titles in order—that article contains the titles of all the other works in this project.
-
Alternatively, you can click the lozenge (◊) at the bottom of each page. It’ll take you to a random article in the project, thanks to this javascript.
-
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. Sometimes, there are more than one of each of these, or there are none, dependant on the structure of their original project.
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Things still to do
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Autocento of the breakfast table is a work in progress. The first draft is completed, but some revision and aesthetic work remains to be done for me to consider it fully “published” (what does this word mean in 2015?). You can see the full list of to-dos by visiting the issues page of the Github site.
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-
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Contact me
-
If you’d like to contact me about the state of this work or my writing in general, you can email me at .
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-
-
-
-
I’ve decided to use the word article instead of poem, because not all of the texts included are poems; and instead of piece, because piece is vague and, to my mind, pretentious. I’m aware that the true etymology of article does not reflect my use of it, namely “a little chunk of art”, a la the (personal folk) derivation of icicle, treicle, etc.↩
-
The great thing about pandoc is that it can compile to, and convert between, about fifty formats or so. This means that if, in the future, I choose to convert this project to a printable form (for example PDF, ODT, or even DOCX), I’ll be able to with a fairly small amount of work.↩
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For more information on the technological aspect of this project, see the README.md file at the root of the github repo.↩
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 80d5d0d..cf1780d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,14 +17,15 @@ At the top of each file, there is a YAML metadata block that looks something lik
````yaml
---
-title: Title of poem
+title: Title of article
+id: file-name-without-extension
subtitle: Subtitle # optional
genre: verse # verse or prose
epigraph: # optional
-- content: 'Content of epigraph' # req'd if epigraph exists
- link: 'http://link-to-epigraph-source/' # optional
- attrib: 'Epigraph attribution' # optional
+ content: 'Content of epigraph' # req'd if epigraph exists
+ link: 'http://link-to-epigraph-source/' # optional
+ attrib: 'Epigraph attribution' # optional
dedication: my mother # optional
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ ekphrastic: # optional image ekphrastic
project:
title: Original project name
+ class: class-name-for-css
order: 1 # page number, optional
prev: # optional
- title: Title of previous thing in original project
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Autocento of the breakfast table
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about this site
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+ by Case Duckworth
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Introduction
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Autocento of the breakfast table is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time. Somebody[citation needed] once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship. As we write, as we continue writing across our lives, patterns thread themselves through our work: images, certain phrases, preoccupations. This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology of hypertext.
This project revolves around two sister concepts: the hapax legomenon and the cento.
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Hapax legomenon (ἅπαξ λεγόμενον) is Greek for “something said only once.” It’s used in linguistics to describe words that appear only once in a corpus. If expanded to n-grams, it can be used to describe utterances that occur only once, and this is where it gets interesting. If this line of thinking is taken to its logical conclusion, we can say that all writing, all utterances, are hapax legomena, because they appear only once in the world as they are. In short, everything is individual; everything is differentiated; everything is an island.
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On the other hand, a cento, from the Latin, from the Greek κέντρόνη, meaning “patchwork garment,” is a poem composed completely of fragments of other poems. It’s a mash-up that makes up for its lack of originality in utterance with a novelty in arrangement. Usually, it refers to taking phrases, lines, or stanzas from other authors’ works, but I don’t see why it couldn’t refer to n-grams or individual words. If this line of thinking is taken to its logical conclusion, we can say that no writing is truly original; that every utterance has, in some scrambled way at least, been uttered before. In other words, nothing is individual. We float on an ocean of language which we did nothing to create, and the best we can hope for is to find some combination that hasn’t been thought of too many times before. As Solomon said, “There is nothing new under the sun.”
+
Autocento of the breakfast table works within the tension caused by these two concepts.
+
+
+
Process
+
In compiling the works that make up this text, I’ve pulled from a few different projects:
as well as added new articles, written quite recently. 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. This should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside.
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+
+
Technology
+
Because this project lives online, I’ve used a fair amount of technology to get it there. First, I converted all the articles1 present into plain text files, which are viewable here. Then, I used John McFarlane’s venerable document preparation system pandoc, along with a short script, to compile the text sources to HTML using this template. The compiled HTML is what you’re reading now.2
+
To host the project, I’m using Github, an online code-collaboration tool with the version control system git under the hood. 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. You can view the repository and its changes and files at my Github profile.3
+
+
+
Using this site
+
All of the articles on this site are linked together hypertextually (i.e., like a webpage). This means that all you need to do to explore the creative threads linking these articles together is to start clicking links. However, if you find you’re looping around to a lot of the same articles, you can head back to the index and click through the titles in order—that article contains the titles of all the other works in this project.
+
Alternatively, you can click the lozenge (◊) at the bottom of each page. It’ll take you to a random article in the project, thanks to this javascript.
+
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. Sometimes, there are more than one of each of these, or there are none, dependant on the structure of their original project.
+
+
+
Things still to do
+
Autocento of the breakfast table is a work in progress. The first draft is completed, but some revision and aesthetic work remains to be done for me to consider it fully “published” (what does this word mean in 2015?). You can see the full list of to-dos by visiting the issues page of the Github site.
+
+
+
Contact me
+
If you’d like to contact me about the state of this work or my writing in general, you can email me at .
+
+
+
+
+
+
I’ve decided to use the word article instead of poem, because not all of the texts included are poems; and instead of piece, because piece is vague and, to my mind, pretentious. I’m aware that the true etymology of article does not reflect my use of it, namely “a little chunk of art”, a la the (personal folk) derivation of icicle, treicle, etc.↩
+
The great thing about pandoc is that it can compile to, and convert between, about fifty formats or so. This means that if, in the future, I choose to convert this project to a printable form (for example PDF, ODT, or even DOCX), I’ll be able to with a fairly small amount of work.↩
+
For more information on the technological aspect of this project, see the README.md file at the root of the github repo.↩
diff --git a/js/lozenge.js b/js/lozenge.js
index 6c4a27b..1e5a338 100644
--- a/js/lozenge.js
+++ b/js/lozenge.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
function _lozenge() {
var lozenge = document.getElementById('lozenge');
// array with all files {{{
-var files=["100-lines.html","README.html","about-the-author.html","about_author.html","amber-alert.html","and.html","angeltoabraham.html","apollo11.html","arspoetica.html","art.html","axe.html","big-dipper.html","boar.html","boy_bus.html","building.html","call-me-aural-pleasure.html","cereal.html","cold-wind.html","collage-instrument.html","common-titles.html","creation-myth.html","deadman.html","death-zone.html","deathstrumpet.html","dollywood.html","dream.html","early.html","elegyforanalternateself.html","epigraph.html","ex-machina.html","exasperated.html","father.html","feedingtheraven.html","finding-the-lion.html","fire.html","first-lines.html","found-typewriter-poem.html","hands.html","hard-game.html","hardware.html","howithappened.html","howtoread.html","hymnal.html","i-am.html","i-think-its-you.html","i-want-to-say.html","i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html","in-bed.html","index.html","initial-conditions.html","january.html","joke.html","lappel-du-vide.html","largest-asteroid.html","last-bastion.html","last-passenger.html","leaf.html","leg.html","likingthings.html","listen.html","love-as-god.html","lovesong.html","man.html","manifesto_poetics.html","moon-drowning.html","moongone.html","mountain.html","movingsideways.html","music-433.html","no-nothing.html","notes.html","nothing-is-ever-over.html","on-genre-dimension.html","onformalpoetry.html","options.html","ouroboros_memory.html","paul.html","peaches.html","philosophy.html","phone.html","planks.html","plant.html","poetry-time.html","prelude.html","problems.html","proverbs.html","punch.html","purpose-dogs.html","question.html","real-writer.html","reports.html","riptide_memory.html","ronaldmcdonald.html","roughgloves.html","sapling.html","seasonal-affective-disorder.html","sense-of-it.html","serengeti.html","shed.html","shipwright.html","sixteenth-chapel.html","snow.html","something-simple.html","spittle.html","squirrel.html","stagnant.html","statements-frag.html","stayed-on-the-bus.html","stump.html","swansong-alt.html","swansong.html","swear.html","table_contents.html","tapestry.html","telemarketer.html","the-night-we-met.html","the-sea_the-beach.html","theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html","time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html","todaniel.html","toilet.html","toothpaste.html","treatise.html","underwear.html","walking-in-the-rain.html","wallpaper.html","weplayedthosegamestoo.html","what-we-are-made-of.html","when-im-sorry-i.html","window.html","words-irritable-reaching.html","words-meaning.html","worse-looking-over.html","writing.html","x-ray.html","yellow.html"]
+var files=["100-lines.html","about-the-author.html","about.html","about_author.html","amber-alert.html","and.html","angeltoabraham.html","apollo11.html","arspoetica.html","art.html","axe.html","big-dipper.html","boar.html","boy_bus.html","building.html","call-me-aural-pleasure.html","cereal.html","cold-wind.html","collage-instrument.html","common-titles.html","creation-myth.html","deadman.html","death-zone.html","deathstrumpet.html","dollywood.html","dream.html","early.html","elegyforanalternateself.html","epigraph.html","ex-machina.html","exasperated.html","father.html","feedingtheraven.html","finding-the-lion.html","fire.html","first-lines.html","found-typewriter-poem.html","hands.html","hard-game.html","hardware.html","howithappened.html","howtoread.html","hymnal.html","i-am.html","i-think-its-you.html","i-want-to-say.html","i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html","in-bed.html","index.html","initial-conditions.html","january.html","joke.html","lappel-du-vide.html","largest-asteroid.html","last-bastion.html","last-passenger.html","leaf.html","leg.html","likingthings.html","listen.html","love-as-god.html","lovesong.html","man.html","manifesto_poetics.html","moon-drowning.html","moongone.html","mountain.html","movingsideways.html","music-433.html","no-nothing.html","notes.html","nothing-is-ever-over.html","on-genre-dimension.html","onformalpoetry.html","options.html","ouroboros_memory.html","paul.html","peaches.html","philosophy.html","phone.html","planks.html","plant.html","poetry-time.html","prelude.html","problems.html","proverbs.html","punch.html","purpose-dogs.html","question.html","real-writer.html","reports.html","riptide_memory.html","ronaldmcdonald.html","roughgloves.html","sapling.html","seasonal-affective-disorder.html","sense-of-it.html","serengeti.html","shed.html","shipwright.html","sixteenth-chapel.html","snow.html","something-simple.html","spittle.html","squirrel.html","stagnant.html","statements-frag.html","stayed-on-the-bus.html","stump.html","swansong-alt.html","swansong.html","swear.html","table_contents.html","tapestry.html","telemarketer.html","the-night-we-met.html","the-sea_the-beach.html","theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html","time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html","todaniel.html","toilet.html","toothpaste.html","treatise.html","underwear.html","walking-in-the-rain.html","wallpaper.html","weplayedthosegamestoo.html","what-we-are-made-of.html","when-im-sorry-i.html","window.html","words-irritable-reaching.html","words-meaning.html","worse-looking-over.html","writing.html","x-ray.html","yellow.html"]
// }}}
var index = Math.floor(Math.random() * files.length);
diff --git a/poetry-time.html b/poetry-time.html
index 33eb018..59aeb91 100644
--- a/poetry-time.html
+++ b/poetry-time.html
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
I’m writing this now because I have to. Not in some “my soul yearns for this and I can’t help it” way, but in the way that this moment is structured as such, that it is crystallized this way, me writing this, and later you reading it, now for you, later for me,
and this tenuous connection mates me and you forever, combined with each other, two electrons momentarily entwined. Later, when I’m dead or far too famous for you, and you’re in school, reading my words because it is required reading, I want you to remember this
connection we’ve always had, this spider’s thread hanging between you and me. Which of us is the spider and which is the fly still remains to be seen. To eat, perchance to fly: all of that and more. We can settle all of this later.
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Yes, it is you I’m thinking of in your later time: you specifically, not another. This is true for all such that and is a real person, though it doesn’t bother me to write to a fictional figure or to a figment, maybe, of my imagination. This is
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Yes, it is you I’m thinking of in your later time: you specifically, not another. This is true for all such that and is a real person, though it doesn’t bother me to write to a fictional figure or to a figment, maybe, of my imagination. This is
what you are right now, anyway, dear Reader, is it not? I’m talking about my now, of course, not later, which is your now. Later will be my now too, and maybe I’m ultimately writing to a future part of this self: you could very well be me. In fact, you probably are me, some other version, and
I am you in the past, or what you could’ve been, and at the same time, this isn’t true. Everything is, and nothing isn’t. The difference between “you” and “me” is in name only. Maybe you’ll get this later, when you’re older, when I’m older, when all of this is something we’ll look fondly back to,
because I do hope to meet you, although much later, and I hope your feeling is the same. All this talk on me and you and you and me we’ll keep between us two.
diff --git a/river/README.river b/river/README.river
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-title
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-of
-the
-breakfast
-table
-id
-readme
-subtitle
-about
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-genre
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-epigraph
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-title
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-of
-the
-breakfast
-table
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-autocento
-introduction
-autocento
-of
-the
-breakfast
-table
-is
-a
-hypertextual
-exploration
-of
-the
-workings
-of
-revision
-across
-time
-somebody
-citation
-needed
-once
-said
-that
-every
-relationship
-we
-have
-is
-part
-of
-the
-same
-relationship
-the
-same
-is
-true
-of
-authorship
-as
-we
-write
-as
-we
-continue
-writing
-across
-our
-lives
-patterns
-thread
-themselves
-through
-our
-work
-images
-certain
-phrases
-preoccupations
-this
-project
-attempts
-to
-make
-those
-threads
-more
-apparent
-using
-the
-technology
-of
-hypertext
-i'm
-also
-an
-mfa
-candidate
-at
-northern
-arizona
-university
-nau
-this
-is
-my
-thesis
-genesis
-this
-project
-revolves
-around
-two
-sister
-concepts
-the
-hapax
-legomenon
-and
-the
-cento
-hapax
-legomenon
-is
-greek
-for
-something
-said
-only
-once
-it's
-used
-in
-linguistics
-to
-describe
-words
-that
-appear
-only
-once
-in
-a
-corpus
-if
-expanded
-to
-n-grams
-it
-can
-be
-used
-to
-describe
-utterances
-that
-occur
-only
-once
-and
-this
-is
-where
-it
-gets
-interesting
-if
-this
-line
-of
-thinking
-is
-taken
-to
-its
-logical
-conclusion
-we
-can
-say
-that
-all
-writing
-all
-utterances
-are
-hapax
-legomena
-because
-they
-appear
-only
-once
-in
-the
-world
-as
-they
-are
-in
-short
-everything
-is
-individual
-everything
-is
-differentiated
-everything
-is
-an
-island
-on
-the
-other
-hand
-a
-cento
-from
-the
-latin
-from
-the
-greek
-meaning
-patchwork
-garment
-is
-a
-poem
-composed
-completely
-of
-fragments
-of
-other
-poems
-it's
-a
-mash-up
-that
-makes
-up
-for
-its
-lack
-of
-originality
-in
-utterance
-with
-a
-novelty
-in
-arrangement
-usually
-it
-refers
-to
-taking
-phrases
-lines
-or
-stanzas
-from
-other
-authors
-works
-but
-i
-don't
-see
-why
-it
-couldn't
-refer
-to
-n-grams
-or
-individual
-words
-if
-this
-line
-of
-thinking
-is
-taken
-to
-its
-logical
-conclusion
-we
-can
-say
-that
-no
-writing
-is
-truly
-original
-that
-every
-utterance
-has
-in
-some
-scrambled
-way
-at
-least
-been
-uttered
-before
-in
-other
-words
-nothing
-is
-individual
-we
-float
-on
-an
-ocean
-of
-language
-which
-we
-did
-nothing
-to
-create
-and
-the
-best
-we
-can
-hope
-for
-is
-to
-find
-some
-combination
-that
-hasn't
-been
-thought
-of
-too
-many
-times
-before
-as
-solomon
-said
-there
-is
-nothing
-new
-under
-the
-sun
-nothing-new
-autocento
-of
-the
-breakfast
-table
-works
-within
-the
-tension
-caused
-by
-these
-two
-concepts
-process
-in
-compiling
-the
-works
-that
-make
-up
-this
-text
-i've
-pulled
-from
-a
-few
-different
-projects
-elegies
-for
-alternate
-selves
-and
-html
-the
-book
-of
-hezekiah
-prelude
-html
-stark
-raving
-table
-contents
-html
-buildings
-out
-of
-air
-art
-html
-as
-well
-as
-added
-new
-articles
-written
-quite
-recently
-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
-this
-should
-give
-the
-reader
-a
-fair
-idea
-of
-what
-my
-head
-looks
-like
-on
-the
-inside
-technology
-because
-this
-project
-lives
-online
-i've
-used
-a
-fair
-amount
-of
-technology
-to
-get
-it
-there
-first
-i
-converted
-all
-the
-articles
-1
-present
-into
-plain
-text
-files
-which
-are
-viewable
-here
-text
-then
-i
-used
-john
-mcfarlane's
-venerable
-document
-preparation
-system
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diff --git a/river/common-titles.river b/river/common-titles.river
index 2283cad..a9564b1 100644
--- a/river/common-titles.river
+++ b/river/common-titles.river
@@ -14,22 +14,26 @@ common
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verse
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100
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index 3154944..47b970d 100644
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diff --git a/src/README.txt b/src/README.txt
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--- a/src/README.txt
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----
-title: Autocento of the breakfast table
-id: README
-subtitle: about this site
-genre: prose
-
-epigraph:
- content: by Case Duckworth
-
-project:
- title: Autocento of the breakfast table
- class: autocento
-...
-
-Introduction
-------------
-
-_Autocento [of the breakfast table][]_ is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time.
-Somebody^[[citation needed][]]^ once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship.
-As we write, as we continue writing across our lives, patterns thread themselves through our work: images, certain phrases, preoccupations.
-This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology of hypertext.
-
-I'm also an MFA candidate at [Northern Arizona University][NAU].
-This is my thesis.
-
-Genesis
--------
-
-This project revolves around two sister concepts: the _hapax legomenon_ and the _cento_.
-
-_Hapax legomenon_ ([ἅπαξ][] λεγόμενον) is Greek for "something said only once."
-It's used in linguistics to describe words that appear only once in a corpus.
-If expanded to _n-grams_, it can be used to describe utterances that occur only once, and this is where it gets interesting.
-If this line of thinking is taken to its logical conclusion, we can say that all writing, all utterances, are _hapax legomena_, because they appear only once in the world as they are.
-In short, everything is individual; everything is differentiated; everything is an island.
-
-On the other hand, a _cento_, from the Latin, from the Greek κέντρόνη, meaning "patchwork garment," is a poem composed completely of fragments of other poems.
-It's a mash-up that makes up for its lack of originality in utterance with a novelty in arrangement.
-Usually, it refers to taking phrases, lines, or stanzas from other authors' works, but I don't see why it couldn't refer to _n-grams_ or individual words.
-If _this_ line of thinking is taken to its logical conclusion, we can say that no writing is truly original; that every utterance has, in some scrambled way at least, been uttered before.
-In other words, nothing is individual.
-We float on an ocean of language which we did nothing to create, and the best we can hope for is to find some combination that hasn't been thought of too many times before.
-As Solomon said, "[There is nothing new under the sun][nothing-new]."
-
-_Autocento of the breakfast table_ works within the tension caused by these two concepts.
-
-Process
--------
-
-In compiling the works that make up this text, I've pulled from a few different projects:
-
-* [Elegies for alternate selves](and.html)
-* [The book of Hezekiah](prelude.html)
-* [Stark raving](table_contents.html)
-* [Buildings out of air](art.html)
-
-as well as added new articles, written quite recently.
-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.
-This should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside.
-
-Technology
-----------
-
-Because this project lives online, I've used a fair amount of technology to get it there.
-First, I converted all the articles[^1] present into plain text files, which are viewable [here][text].
-Then, I used John McFarlane's venerable document preparation system [pandoc][], along with a short [script][compile.lua], to compile the text sources to HTML using [this template][].
-The compiled HTML is what you're reading now.[^2]
-
-To host the project, I'm using [Github][], an online code-collaboration tool with the version control system [git][] under the hood.
-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.
-You can view the repository and its changes and files at [my Github profile][].[^3]
-
-Using this site
----------------
-
-All of the articles on this site are linked together hypertextually (i.e., like a webpage).
-This means that all you need to do to explore the creative threads linking these articles together is to start clicking links.
-However, if you find you're looping around to a lot of the same articles, you can head back to the [index][] and click through the titles in order---that article contains the titles of all the other works in this project.
-
-Alternatively, you can click the lozenge (◊) at the bottom of each page.
-It'll take you to a random article in the project, thanks to [this javascript][].
-
-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.
-Sometimes, there are more than one of each of these, or there are none, dependant on the structure of their original project.
-
-Things still to do
-------------------
-
-_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is a work in progress.
-The first draft is completed, but some revision and aesthetic work remains to be done for me to consider it fully "[published][]"
-(what does this word mean in 2015?).
-You can see the full list of to-dos by visiting the [issues page][issues] of the Github site.
-
-Contact me
-----------
-
-If you'd like to contact me about the state of this work or my writing in general, you can email me at .
-
-
-[of the breakfast table]: http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/abt.html
-[citation needed]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Dealing_with_unsourced_material
-[NAU]: http://nau.edu/CAL/English/Degrees-Programs/Graduate/MFA/
-
-[ἅπαξ]: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=a%28/pac
-[nothing-new]: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1%3A9&version=NIV
-
-[text]: src/common-titles.html
-
-[pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
-[compile.lua]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/compile.lua
-[this template]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/.template.html
-[Github]: https://github.com/
-[git]: http://www.git-scm.com/
-[my Github profile]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento
-
-[index]: first-lines.html
-[this javascript]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/js/lozenge.js
-
-[published]: published.html
-[issues]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/issues
-
-[^1]: I've decided to use the word _article_ instead of _poem_, because not all of the texts included are poems; and instead of _piece_, because _piece_ is vague and, to my mind, pretentious.
- I'm aware that the true [etymology](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=article) of _article_ does not reflect my use of it, namely "a little chunk of art", a la the (personal folk) derivation of _icicle_, _treicle_, etc.
-
-[^2]: The great thing about `pandoc` is that it can compile to, and convert between, about fifty formats or so.
- This means that if, in the future, I choose to convert this project to a printable form (for example PDF, ODT, or even DOCX), I'll be able to with a fairly small amount of work.
-
-[^3]: For more information on the technological aspect of this project, see the [README.md](https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/README.md) file at the root of the github repo.
diff --git a/src/about.txt b/src/about.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..da07ac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/about.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+---
+title: Autocento of the breakfast table
+id: README
+subtitle: about this site
+genre: prose
+
+epigraph:
+ content: by Case Duckworth
+
+project:
+ title: About Autocento
+ class: meta
+ next:
+ - title: Index of common titles
+ link: common-titles
+ prev:
+ - title: Index of first lines
+ link: first-lines
+...
+
+Introduction
+------------
+
+_Autocento [of the breakfast table][]_ is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time.
+Somebody^[[citation needed][]]^ once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship; the same is true of authorship.
+As we write, as we continue writing across our lives, patterns thread themselves through our work: images, certain phrases, preoccupations.
+This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology of hypertext.
+
+I'm also an MFA candidate at [Northern Arizona University][NAU].
+This is my thesis.
+
+Genesis
+-------
+
+This project revolves around two sister concepts: the _hapax legomenon_ and the _cento_.
+
+_Hapax legomenon_ ([ἅπαξ][] λεγόμενον) is Greek for "something said only once."
+It's used in linguistics to describe words that appear only once in a corpus.
+If expanded to _n-grams_, it can be used to describe utterances that occur only once, and this is where it gets interesting.
+If this line of thinking is taken to its logical conclusion, we can say that all writing, all utterances, are _hapax legomena_, because they appear only once in the world as they are.
+In short, everything is individual; everything is differentiated; everything is an island.
+
+On the other hand, a _cento_, from the Latin, from the Greek κέντρόνη, meaning "patchwork garment," is a poem composed completely of fragments of other poems.
+It's a mash-up that makes up for its lack of originality in utterance with a novelty in arrangement.
+Usually, it refers to taking phrases, lines, or stanzas from other authors' works, but I don't see why it couldn't refer to _n-grams_ or individual words.
+If _this_ line of thinking is taken to its logical conclusion, we can say that no writing is truly original; that every utterance has, in some scrambled way at least, been uttered before.
+In other words, nothing is individual.
+We float on an ocean of language which we did nothing to create, and the best we can hope for is to find some combination that hasn't been thought of too many times before.
+As Solomon said, "[There is nothing new under the sun][nothing-new]."
+
+_Autocento of the breakfast table_ works within the tension caused by these two concepts.
+
+Process
+-------
+
+In compiling the works that make up this text, I've pulled from a few different projects:
+
+* [Elegies for alternate selves](and.html)
+* [The book of Hezekiah](prelude.html)
+* [Stark raving](table_contents.html)
+* [Buildings out of air](art.html)
+
+as well as added new articles, written quite recently.
+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.
+This should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside.
+
+Technology
+----------
+
+Because this project lives online, I've used a fair amount of technology to get it there.
+First, I converted all the articles[^1] present into plain text files, which are viewable [here][text].
+Then, I used John McFarlane's venerable document preparation system [pandoc][], along with a short [script][compile.lua], to compile the text sources to HTML using [this template][].
+The compiled HTML is what you're reading now.[^2]
+
+To host the project, I'm using [Github][], an online code-collaboration tool with the version control system [git][] under the hood.
+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.
+You can view the repository and its changes and files at [my Github profile][].[^3]
+
+Using this site
+---------------
+
+All of the articles on this site are linked together hypertextually (i.e., like a webpage).
+This means that all you need to do to explore the creative threads linking these articles together is to start clicking links.
+However, if you find you're looping around to a lot of the same articles, you can head back to the [index][] and click through the titles in order---that article contains the titles of all the other works in this project.
+
+Alternatively, you can click the lozenge (◊) at the bottom of each page.
+It'll take you to a random article in the project, thanks to [this javascript][].
+
+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.
+Sometimes, there are more than one of each of these, or there are none, dependant on the structure of their original project.
+
+Things still to do
+------------------
+
+_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is a work in progress.
+The first draft is completed, but some revision and aesthetic work remains to be done for me to consider it fully "[published][]"
+(what does this word mean in 2015?).
+You can see the full list of to-dos by visiting the [issues page][issues] of the Github site.
+
+Contact me
+----------
+
+If you'd like to contact me about the state of this work or my writing in general, you can email me at .
+
+
+[of the breakfast table]: http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/owh/abt.html
+[citation needed]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Dealing_with_unsourced_material
+[NAU]: http://nau.edu/CAL/English/Degrees-Programs/Graduate/MFA/
+
+[ἅπαξ]: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=a%28/pac
+[nothing-new]: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+1%3A9&version=NIV
+
+[text]: src/common-titles.html
+
+[pandoc]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
+[compile.lua]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/compile.lua
+[this template]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/.template.html
+[Github]: https://github.com/
+[git]: http://www.git-scm.com/
+[my Github profile]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento
+
+[index]: first-lines.html
+[this javascript]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/js/lozenge.js
+
+[published]: published.html
+[issues]: https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/issues
+
+[^1]: I've decided to use the word _article_ instead of _poem_, because not all of the texts included are poems; and instead of _piece_, because _piece_ is vague and, to my mind, pretentious.
+ I'm aware that the true [etymology](http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=article) of _article_ does not reflect my use of it, namely "a little chunk of art", a la the (personal folk) derivation of _icicle_, _treicle_, etc.
+
+[^2]: The great thing about `pandoc` is that it can compile to, and convert between, about fifty formats or so.
+ This means that if, in the future, I choose to convert this project to a printable form (for example PDF, ODT, or even DOCX), I'll be able to with a fairly small amount of work.
+
+[^3]: For more information on the technological aspect of this project, see the [README.md](https://github.com/duckwork/autocento/blob/gh-pages/README.md) file at the root of the github repo.
diff --git a/src/common-titles.txt b/src/common-titles.txt
index 485ae76..0d14464 100644
--- a/src/common-titles.txt
+++ b/src/common-titles.txt
@@ -4,13 +4,15 @@ id: common-titles
subtitle: index of common titles
genre: verse
-epigraph:
- content: 'Read me.'
- link: README.html
-
project:
- title: Autocento of the breakfast table
- class: autocento
+ title: About Autocento
+ class: meta
+ next:
+ - title: Index of first lines
+ link: first-lines
+ prev:
+ - title: About _Autocento_
+ link: about
...
[100 lines](100-lines.html)
diff --git a/src/first-lines.txt b/src/first-lines.txt
index faa75b7..5e88c2b 100644
--- a/src/first-lines.txt
+++ b/src/first-lines.txt
@@ -5,8 +5,14 @@ subtitle: index of first lines
genre: prose
project:
- title: Autocento of the breakfast table
- class: autocento
+ title: About Autocento
+ class: meta
+ next:
+ - title: About _Autocento_
+ link: about
+ prev:
+ - title: Index of common titles
+ link: common-titles
...
[A dead man finds his way into our hearts](deadman.html)
diff --git a/style.css b/style.css
index 14f8b88..f11514c 100644
--- a/style.css
+++ b/style.css
@@ -94,21 +94,12 @@ nav {
}
/* .title + .subtitle }}} */
/* .HEADER-EXTRA {{{ */
-.header-extra {
- text-align: right;
-}
-.dedication,.epigraph {
- vertical-align: bottom;
- display: inline-block;
- margin-left: 2%;
- margin-right: 2%;
- width: 45%;
-}
/* DEDICATION {{{ */
.dedication {
font-style: italic;
font-size: 0.92em;
margin-top: 1em;
+ text-align: left;
}
.dedication::before {
content: 'for ';
@@ -138,6 +129,16 @@ nav {
content: '– ';
}
/* epigraph }}} */
+.header-extra {
+ text-align: right;
+}
+.dedication,.epigraph {
+ vertical-align: bottom;
+ display: inline-block;
+ margin-left: 2%;
+ margin-right: 2%;
+ width: 45%;
+}
/* header-extra }}} */
/* header elements }}} */
/* .EKPHRASTIC {{{ */
@@ -208,8 +209,14 @@ a[href^="http"]:active {
/* NAV ELEMENTS {{{ */
nav a:link { border-bottom: none; }
nav a:active { border: none; }
-nav .prevlink { float: left; text-align: left; }
-nav .nextlink { float: right; text-align: right; }
+nav .prevlink {
+ float: left;
+ text-align: left;
+}
+nav .nextlink {
+ float: right;
+ text-align: right;
+}
/* Properties both types of navlinks share */
nav .prevlink, nav .nextlink {
margin: 0 0.5em;
@@ -233,6 +240,7 @@ nav .prevlink::before {
text-align: left;
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.5em;
+ width: 1em;
}
nav .nextlink::after {
content: ' »';
@@ -242,6 +250,7 @@ nav .nextlink::after {
text-align: right;
padding-left: 0.5em;
padding-right: 0.5em;
+ width: 1em;
}
#lozenge {
position: absolute;
diff --git a/table_contents.html b/table_contents.html
index d889467..ff2528b 100644
--- a/table_contents.html
+++ b/table_contents.html
@@ -43,7 +43,11 @@