From bd9abbe4eb94b9c77865bd28bf73ec6eb0b39a95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 17:34:26 -0700 Subject: Fix #15: add compile support for indeces --- about.txt | 21 ++-- abstract.txt | 6 +- common-titles.html | 65 +++++++++++ common-titles.txt | 276 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------- creation-myth.html | 6 +- creation-myth.txt | 64 +++++------ first-lines.html | 65 +++++++++++ first-lines.txt | 261 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------- howithappened.txt | 32 +++--- lappel-du-vide.txt | 6 +- makefile | 40 +++++-- process.txt | 9 +- question_backlinks.htm | 3 +- statements-frag.txt | 9 +- trunk/common-titles.head | 17 +++ trunk/common-titles.sh | 21 ++++ trunk/first-lines.head | 17 +++ trunk/first-lines.sh | 32 ++++-- 18 files changed, 557 insertions(+), 393 deletions(-) create mode 100644 common-titles.html create mode 100644 first-lines.html create mode 100644 trunk/common-titles.head create mode 100644 trunk/common-titles.sh create mode 100644 trunk/first-lines.head diff --git a/about.txt b/about.txt index f9390ef..d4fd965 100644 --- a/about.txt +++ b/about.txt @@ -18,8 +18,7 @@ project: link: first-lines ... -Introduction ------------- +## 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. @@ -29,8 +28,7 @@ This project attempts to make those threads more apparent, using the technology I'm also an MFA candidate at [Northern Arizona University][NAU]. This is my thesis. -Genesis -------- +## Genesis This project revolves around two sister concepts: the _hapax legomenon_ and the _cento_. @@ -50,8 +48,7 @@ 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 -------- +## Process In compiling the works that make up this text, I've pulled from a few different projects: @@ -64,8 +61,7 @@ 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 ----------- +## 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 from [here][text]. @@ -76,8 +72,7 @@ To host the project, I'm using [Github][], an online code-collaboration tool wit 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 ---------------- +## 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. @@ -89,16 +84,14 @@ 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 ------------------- +## 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 ----------- +## 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 . diff --git a/abstract.txt b/abstract.txt index 845faee..899a4fb 100644 --- a/abstract.txt +++ b/abstract.txt @@ -9,15 +9,13 @@ project: class: meta ... -Brief Description ------------------ +## Brief Description _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is my Master's thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. I've compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole. 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. -Things to notice ----------------- +## Things to notice Take a look around the site. 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100 lines About the author Autocento of the breakfast table About Case Duckworth Autocento of the breakfast table AMBER alert And The angel to Abraham On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site Ars poetica Art Axe The Big Dipper The boar Boy on the bus Building Call me Cereal Cold wind Instrumented Creation myth Dead man The Death Zone Death’s trumpet Something Dream Early Elegy for an alternate self epigraph Ex machina Exasperated Father Feeding the raven Finding the Lion Fire Look Hands A hard game Hardware How it happened How to read this Hymnal I am I think it’s you (but it’s not) I want to say I wanted to tell you something In bed Initial conditions January Joke L’appel du vide The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt Last bastion Last passenger Leaf Leg Liking Things Listen Love as God Love Song Man Manifesto of poetics The Moon is drowning The moon is gone and in its place a mirror The mountain Moving Sideways Something No nothing Notes Nothing is ever over On genre and the dimensionality of poetry On formal poetry Options Ouroboros of Memory Paul Peaches Philosophy Phone Planks Litany for a plant Something Prelude Problems Autocento of the breakfast table Proverbs Punch The purpose of dogs Question A real writer Reports Riptide of memory Ronald McDonald Rough gloves Sapling Seasonal affective disorder Sense of it Serengeti Shed The shipwright The Sixteenth Chapel Snow Let’s start with something simple: Spittle The squirrel Stagnant Statements Stayed on the bus too long Stump Swansong Swan song Swear Table of contents Tapestry Telemarketer The night we met, I was out of my mind The sea and the beach The ocean overflows with camels Time looks up to the sky To Daniel Toilet Toothpaste Treatise Underwear Walking in the rain Wallpaper We played those games too What we are made of When I’m sorry I wash dishes Window Words and their irritable reaching Words and meaning Worse looking over Writing X-ray Yellow

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[100 lines](100-lines.html) -[about the author](about-the-author.html), -[Case Duckworth](about_author.html) (nee -[Amber): alert](amber-alert.html)! - +[About the author](about-the-author.html) +[Autocento of the breakfast table](about.html) +[About Case Duckworth](about_author.html) +[Autocento of the breakfast table](abstract.html) +[AMBER alert](amber-alert.html) [And](and.html) -[the angel, to Abraham](angeltoabraham.html), -[on seeing the panorama \ -of the Apollo 11 landing site](apollo11.html): -"[Ars poetica](arspoetica.html): -[art](art.html), -an [axe](axe.html), \ -[the big dipper](big-dipper.html) and -[the boar](boar.html). -The [boy on the bus](boy_bus.html) is -[building](building.html). \ +[The angel to Abraham](angeltoabraham.html) +[On seeing the panorama of the Apollo 11 landing site](apollo11.html) +[Ars poetica](arspoetica.html) +[Art](art.html) +[Axe](axe.html) +[The Big Dipper](big-dipper.html) +[The boar](boar.html) +[Boy on the bus](boy_bus.html) +[Building](building.html) [Call me](call-me-aural-pleasure.html) -[_Cereal_](cereal.html) or -[_Cold Wind_](cold-wind.html). \ -[Instrument](collage-instrumented.html) a collage." - -[Creation myth](creation-myth.html): -[dead man](deadman.html) = -[the death zone](death-zone.html) = \ -[Death's trumpet](deathstrumpet.html). +[Cereal](cereal.html) +[Cold wind](cold-wind.html) +[Instrumented](collage-instrument.html) +[Creation myth](creation-myth.html) +[Dead man](deadman.html) +[The Death Zone](death-zone.html) +[Death's trumpet](deathstrumpet.html) +[Something](dollywood.html) [Dream](dream.html) -[early](early.html). - -[Elegy for an alternate self:](elegyforanalternateself.html) -an [epigraph](epigraph.html), \ -[_ex machina_](ex-machina.html) and -[exasperated](exasperated.html); -[Father](father.html) [feeding \ -the raven](feedingtheraven.html), -[finding the lion](finding-the-lion.html), -setting a [fire](fire.html). - -[Look](found-typewriter-poem.html): -[hands](hands.html)-[on poetry](on-genre-dimension.html)! \ -[A hard game](hard-game.html): -[hardware](hardware.html). \ -([How it happened](howithappened.html)?) \ - +[Early](early.html) +[Elegy for an alternate self](elegyforanalternateself.html) +[epigraph](epigraph.html) +[Ex machina](ex-machina.html) +[Exasperated](exasperated.html) +[Father](father.html) +[Feeding the raven](feedingtheraven.html) +[Finding the Lion](finding-the-lion.html) +[Fire](fire.html) +[Look](found-typewriter-poem.html) +[Hands](hands.html) +[A hard game](hard-game.html) +[Hardware](hardware.html) +[How it happened](howithappened.html) [How to read this](howtoread.html) -[hymnal](hymnal.html): \ -"[I am](i-am.html)." "[I think it's \ -you (but it's not)](i-think-its-you.html)." - -[I wanted to tell you something](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) -[in bed](in-bed.html)--- \ +[Hymnal](hymnal.html) +[I am](i-am.html) +[I think it's you (but it's not)](i-think-its-you.html) [I want to say](i-want-to-say.html) -the [initial conditions](initial-conditions.html) -of [January](january.html)'s -[joke](joke.html) are -[_l'appel du vide_](lappel-du-vide.html). \ -[The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt](largest-asteroid.html) is the -[last bastion](last-bastion.html), \ -the [last passenger](last-passenger.html) -[leaf](leaf.html), the -[leg](leg.html) -[liking things](likingthings.html). - -[Listen](listen.html): -[love as God](love-as-god.html) loves, better \ -than a [love song](lovesong.html), -[man](man.html). This is \ -a [manifesto](manifesto_poetics.html). - -[The moon is drowning](moon-drowning.html). -[The moon is gone, \ -and in its place: a mirror](moongone.html). -[The mountain](mountain.html)'s \ -[moving sideways](movingsideways.html), [something about all music \ -being performances of _4′33″_ in places \ -where other bands happen to be playing](music-433.html). Listen: \ -[no nothing](no-nothing.html), no -[notes](notes.html), [_nothing_ is ever over](nothing-is-ever-over.html). - -[On formal poetry](onformalpoetry.html), -[options](options.html): \ -an [ouroboros of memory](ouroboros_memory.html), -[_Paul_](paul.html), -[philosophy](philosophy.html), \ -[phone](phone.html)s, or -[planks](planks.html). -A [litany for a plant](plant.html). - -[Something about the nature \ -of poetry and time](poetry-time.html): -[prelude](prelude.html), -[problems](problems.html), -[proverbs](proverbs.html), \ -some [peaches](peaches.html). +[I wanted to tell you something](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) +[In bed](in-bed.html) +[Initial conditions](initial-conditions.html) +[January](january.html) +[Joke](joke.html) +[L'appel du vide](lappel-du-vide.html) +[The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt](largest-asteroid.html) +[Last bastion](last-bastion.html) +[Last passenger](last-passenger.html) +[Leaf](leaf.html) +[Leg](leg.html) +[Liking Things](likingthings.html) +[Listen](listen.html) +[Love as God](love-as-god.html) +[Love Song](lovesong.html) +[Man](man.html) +[Manifesto of poetics](manifesto_poetics.html) +[The Moon is drowning](moon-drowning.html) +[The moon is gone and in its place a mirror](moongone.html) +[The mountain](mountain.html) +[Moving Sideways](movingsideways.html) +[Something](music-433.html) +[No nothing](no-nothing.html) +[Notes](notes.html) +[Nothing is ever over](nothing-is-ever-over.html) +[On genre and the dimensionality of poetry](on-genre-dimension.html) +[On formal poetry](onformalpoetry.html) +[Options](options.html) +[Ouroboros of Memory](ouroboros_memory.html) +[Paul](paul.html) +[Peaches](peaches.html) +[Philosophy](philosophy.html) +[Phone](phone.html) +[Planks](planks.html) +[Litany for a plant](plant.html) +[Something](poetry-time.html) +[Prelude](prelude.html) +[Problems](problems.html) +[Autocento of the breakfast table](process.html) +[Proverbs](proverbs.html) [Punch](punch.html) -is [the purpose of dogs](purpose-dogs.html). - -A [question](question.html): if -[a real writer](real-writer.html) -[reports](reports.html) on \ -the [riptide of memory](riptide_memory.html), does -[Ronald McDonald](ronaldmcdonald.html) \ -wear [rough gloves](roughgloves.html) or -a [sapling](sapling.html)? - -[Seasonal affective disorder](seasonal-affective-disorder.html) is part of -the [sense of it](sense-of-it.html). \ -The [serengeti](serengeti.html) is -a [shed](shed.html). -[The shipwright](shipwright.html) \ -builds -[the sixteenth chapel](sixteenth-chapel.html) in -[snow](snow.html). - -[Let's start with something simple](something-simple.html): \ -[spittle](spittle.html) on -[the squirrel](squirrel.html) sitting -[stagnant](stagnant.html). \ -[Something about my tenure as a bear](dollywood.html). +[The purpose of dogs](purpose-dogs.html) +[Question](question.html) +[A real writer](real-writer.html) +[Reports](reports.html) +[Riptide of memory](riptide_memory.html) +[Ronald McDonald](ronaldmcdonald.html) +[Rough gloves](roughgloves.html) +[Sapling](sapling.html) +[Seasonal affective disorder](seasonal-affective-disorder.html) +[Sense of it](sense-of-it.html) +[Serengeti](serengeti.html) +[Shed](shed.html) +[The shipwright](shipwright.html) +[The Sixteenth Chapel](sixteenth-chapel.html) +[Snow](snow.html) +[Let's start with something simple:](something-simple.html) +[Spittle](spittle.html) +[The squirrel](squirrel.html) +[Stagnant](stagnant.html) [Statements](statements-frag.html) -[stayed on the bus too long](stayed-on-the-bus.html). - -A [stump](stump.html) is not -a [swansong](swansong-alt.html) is not -a [_swan_, Song](swansong.html). \ - +[Stayed on the bus too long](stayed-on-the-bus.html) +[Stump](stump.html) +[Swansong](swansong-alt.html) +[Swan song](swansong.html) [Swear](swear.html) -the [table of contents](table_contents.html) is -a [tapestry](tapestry.html). \ -[Telemarketer](telemarketer.html)s swear that -[the night we met, I \ -was out of my mind](the-night-we-met.html). - -[The sea and the beach](the-sea_the-beach.html), even -[the ocean overflows \ -with camels](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html). -[Time looks up to the sky](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html), \ -[to Daniel](todaniel.html) on -the [toilet](toilet.html) writing -"[Toothpaste](toothpaste.html)," \ -a [treatise](treatise.html) on -[underwear](underwear.html) and -[wallpaper](wallpaper.html). - -[We played those games too](weplayedthosegamestoo.html). - -[When I'm sorry I wash dishes](when-im-sorry-i.html) in -the [window](window.html), [walking \ -in the rain](walking-in-the-rain.html), thinking \ -about -[what we are made of](what-we-are-made-of.html): \ -[words and meaning](words-meaning.html), -[irritably reaching after reason](words-irritable-reaching.html). -I feel [worse, \ -looking over](worse-looking-over.html) at you, -than when I'm [writing](writing.html) \ -an [x-ray](x-ray.html) in -[yellow](yellow.html). +[Table of contents](table_contents.html) +[Tapestry](tapestry.html) +[Telemarketer](telemarketer.html) +[The night we met, I was out of my mind](the-night-we-met.html) +[The sea and the beach](the-sea_the-beach.html) +[The ocean overflows with camels](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html) +[Time looks up to the sky](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html) +[To Daniel](todaniel.html) +[Toilet](toilet.html) +[Toothpaste](toothpaste.html) +[Treatise](treatise.html) +[Underwear](underwear.html) +[Walking in the rain](walking-in-the-rain.html) +[Wallpaper](wallpaper.html) +[We played those games too](weplayedthosegamestoo.html) +[What we are made of](what-we-are-made-of.html) +[When I'm sorry I wash dishes](when-im-sorry-i.html) +[Window](window.html) +[Words and their irritable reaching](words-irritable-reaching.html) +[Words and meaning](words-meaning.html) +[Worse looking over](worse-looking-over.html) +[Writing](writing.html) +[X-ray](x-ray.html) +[Yellow](yellow.html) diff --git a/creation-myth.html b/creation-myth.html index b4d5556..7d42614 100644 --- a/creation-myth.html +++ b/creation-myth.html @@ -36,9 +36,9 @@
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So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beingswalk into a bar. One turns to the other and says,“Did you remember to check the end state
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two beers please." The bartender nods in that waythat bartenders do, pours the two beers,expertly, by the way, just so, and hands themto the first hyperintelligent pandimensional being.The second one pulls a few singles out of hiswallet, places them on the bar, and the pairturn around and begin walking toward a tablein the middle of the mostly-empty bar. The bar-tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns,and calls to his patrons’ backs: “Hey, this
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So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beingswalk into a bar. One turns to the other and says,“Did you remember to check the end stateof that simulation we were running?" The othersays, “No, I thought that you did?” To whichthe first replies, “Oh shit, we missed it.I suppose we must do all of this again. Barkeep,

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two beers please." The bartender nods in that waythat bartenders do, pours the two beers,expertly, by the way, just so, and hands themto the first hyperintelligent pandimensional being.The second one pulls a few singles out of hiswallet, places them on the bar, and the pairturn around and begin walking toward a tablein the middle of the mostly-empty bar. The bar-tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns,and calls to his patrons’ backs: “Hey, thisisn’t enough!" The two turn around simultan-eously, with parity, and stare at him. A beat.

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One of them, the one without the beer, breaksthe silence by exclaiming, “Oh dear god, I’msorry! I didn’t know your prices went up sincelast time. What do I owe you?" The bartendersays, “Oh, just another dollar-fifty.” The beingreaches in his back pocket, slides out hiswallet, looks in smiling, and frowns when he seesit’s empty. He looks to the other and says,“You got a buck-fifty I can borrow?”

The second hyperintelligent pandimensional beingconsiders this. He sets the beers downon the table, pulls out his own wallet, opensit, and frowns. “I’m broke too,” he says.

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Whenever you call me friend He was born on a few separate occasions green traffic lights at night Autocento of the breakfast table is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time. Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV. Autocento of the breakfast table is my Master’s thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. Lost things have a way of staying lost. And you were there at the start of it all Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear: So it’s the fucking moon. Big deal. As if What is poetry? Paul was writing in his diary about art. Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees. After searching for days or even months Now the ticking clocks scare me. When he said Bible I heard his southern accent _ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building. Like 40 as I challenge anyone to come too! He woke up after eleven and didn’t go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack. Man of autumn, cold wind, tr has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s. So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings A dead man finds his way into our hearts When I think of death I think He didn’t have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing, I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began. It had gotten cold. YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked. Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. Bottom of the drink: they had I didn’t write this sestina yesterday. “Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things” he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed. You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life. Tonight, as I look up, the stars His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown. Look, I say—look here— He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing. You think building Hoggle’s a hard game? His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday. I was away on vacation when I heard— This book is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived. It’s all jokes Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal. I am a great pillar of white smoke. I thought I saw you walking I want to say I take it all back I wanted to tell you something in order to I hear the rats run There is a theory which states the Universe January. He wrote JOKES on the top of a page in his notebook. 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. What secrets does it hold? Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle Memory works strangely, spooling its thread He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack. His first chair was a stool. The definition of happiness is doing stuff that you really like. If you swallow hard enough God is love, they say, but there is Walking along in the dark is a good way to begin a song. THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES What is a poem? The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. The other side of this mountain A dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk. Silence lies underneath us all in the same way While swimming in the river Paul began typing on notecards. Nothing is ever over; nothing How does one describe a poem? I think that I could write formal poems What did he do when he was in the woods? He said at the beginning, “It’s like rolling yarn into a too-small ball. CONTENTS OF THE SHED “My anger is like a peach,” he said. Importance is important. “Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me” the voice on the phone was a woman’s. EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING I need a plant. I need a thing I’m writing this now because I have to. Of course, there is a God. The problem with people is this: we cannot be happy. Autocento of the breakfast table is an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. Nothing matters; everything is sacred. When he finally got back to work he was surprised they threw him a party. Okay, so as we said in the Prelude, there either is or isn’t a God. “Do you have to say your thoughts out loud for them to mean anything” Paul asked Jill on his first coffee break at work. Sometimes I feel as though I am not a real writer. “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. Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory. When Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt, I lost my hands & knit replacement ones He chopped down a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch. On your desk I set a tangerine: I only write poems on the bus anymore. The self is a serengeti “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. He builds a ship as if it were the last thing If Justin Bieber isn’t going for the sixteenth I don’t care if they burn he wrote on his last blank notecard. in mammals the ratio between bladder size My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought. He is so full in himself: “Riding the bus to work is a good way to think or to read” Paul thought to himself on the bus ride to work. “Can one truly describe an emotion?” Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie. It was a gamble He walked into the woods for the first time in months. This poem is dry like chapped lips. Swans fly overhead singing goodbye EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME 4. The look she gave me 4. Half-hours in heaven are three times _Apparently typewriters need ribbon. It was one of those nameless gray buildings that could be seen from the street only if Larry craned his neck to almost vertical. My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen, Waiting for a reading to start We found your shirt deep in the dark water, I wish I’d kissed you when I had the chance. There are more modern ideals of beauty Paul only did his reading on the toilet. He couldn’t find a shirt to go to work in. TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS “SPOOKY He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around. I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence He didn’t go back into the shed for a long time. I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game There is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows. Your casserole dish takes the longest: HYMN 386: JOKES Somewhere I remember reading advice for beginning writers not to show their work to anyone, at least that in the early stages. “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.” The radio is screaming the man He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping. 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. He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.

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Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.](statements-frag.html) +[Whenever you call me friend](100-lines.html) +[He was born on a few separate occasions _green traffic lights at night_](about-the-author.html) +[_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time.](about.html) [Case Duckworth is the cowardly but lovable Great Dane who solves mysteries on TV.](about_author.html) -[Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle](last-bastion.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.](question.html) -[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](planks.html). -[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](swear.html). -[God is love, they say, but there is](love-as-god.html) -[hymn 386: jokes](window.html). - -[He builds a ship as if it were the last thing](shipwright.html) -[he chopped down: a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.](sapling.html) -[He couldn't find a shirt to go to work in.](toothpaste.html) -[He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.](wallpaper.html) +[_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is my Master's thesis, an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession.](abstract.html) +[Lost things have a way of staying lost.](amber-alert.html) +[And you were there at the start of it all](and.html) +[Abraham, Abraham, you are old and cannot hear:](angeltoabraham.html) +[So it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if](apollo11.html) +[What is poetry?](arspoetica.html) +[Paul was writing in his diary about art.](art.html) +[Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.](axe.html) +[After searching for days or even months](big-dipper.html) +[Now the ticking clocks scare me.](boar.html) +[When he said Bible I heard his southern accent](boy_bus.html) +[_ART and CRAFT are only the inside and outside of the same building.](building.html) +[Like _40_ as I challenge anyone to come too!](call-me-aural-pleasure.html) +[He woke up after eleven and didn't go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.](cereal.html) +[Man of autumn, cold wind,](cold-wind.html) +[`tr` has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.](collage-instrument.html) +[So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings](creation-myth.html) +[A dead man finds his way into our hearts](deadman.html) +[When I think of death I think](death-zone.html) [He didn't have any polish so he spit-shined the whole thing,](deathstrumpet.html) -[he dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.](underwear.html) -[He is so full in himself:](squirrel.html) +[I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.](dollywood.html) +[It had gotten cold.](dream.html) +[_YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.](early.html) +[Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined](elegyforanalternateself.html) +[I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.](epigraph.html) +[Bottom of the drink: they had](ex-machina.html) +[I didn't write this sestina yesterday.](exasperated.html) +["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) +[You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.](feedingtheraven.html) +[Tonight, as I look up, the stars](finding-the-lion.html) +[His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.](fire.html) +[Look, I say---look here---](found-typewriter-poem.html) [He looked down at his hands idly while he was typing.](hands.html) -[He said at the beginning, "It's like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.](ouroboros_memory.html)" -[He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.](writing.html) +[You think building Hoggle's a hard game?](hard-game.html) +[His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.](hardware.html) +[I was away on vacation when I heard---](howithappened.html) +[This book is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.](howtoread.html) +[_It's all jokes_ Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.](hymnal.html) +[I am a great pillar of white smoke.](i-am.html) +[I thought I saw you walking](i-think-its-you.html) +[I want to say I take it all back](i-want-to-say.html) +[I wanted to tell you something in order to](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) +[I hear the rats run](in-bed.html) +[There is a theory which states the Universe](initial-conditions.html) +[January.](january.html) +[He wrote _**JOKES**_ on the top of a page in his notebook.](joke.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.](lappel-du-vide.html) +[What secrets does it hold?](largest-asteroid.html) +[Dimly remembered celebrity chefs shuffle](last-bastion.html) +[Memory works strangely, spooling its thread](last-passenger.html) [He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.](leaf.html) -[He walked into the woods for the first time in months.](stump.html) -[He was born on a few separate occasions: green traffic lights at night](about-the-author.html). -[He woke up after eleven and didn't go outside all day, not even to his Writing Shack.](cereal.html) -[He would enter data at work for fifty minutes and then go on break.](yellow.html) -[He wrote JOKES on the top of a page in his notebook.](joke.html) - -["Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me" the voice on the phone was a woman's.](phone.html) [His first chair was a stool.](leg.html) -[His mother drove him to the Hardware Store on a Tuesday.](hardware.html) -[His mother ran out of the house in her nightgown.](fire.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."](words-meaning.html) +[The definition of happiness is *doing stuff that you really like*.](likingthings.html) +[If you swallow hard enough](listen.html) +[God is love, they say, but there is](love-as-god.html) +[Walking along in the dark is a good way to begin a song.](lovesong.html) +[_THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES_](man.html) +[What is a poem?](manifesto_poetics.html) +[The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them](moon-drowning.html) +[The moon is gone and in its place a mirror.](moongone.html) +[The other side of this mountain](mountain.html) +[A dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk.](movingsideways.html) +[Silence lies underneath us all in the same way](music-433.html) +[While swimming in the river](no-nothing.html) +[Paul began typing on notecards.](notes.html) +[Nothing is ever over; nothing](nothing-is-ever-over.html) [How does one describe a poem?](on-genre-dimension.html) -[I am a great pillar of white smoke.](i-am.html) -[I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence](walking-in-the-rain.html). -[I didn't write this sestina yesterday.](exasperated.html) -[I don't care if they burn he wrote on his last blank notecard.](snow.html) -[I hear the rats run](in-bed.html). -[I lost my hands & knit replacement ones](roughgloves.html). -[I need a plant. I need a thing](plant.html). -[I only write poems on the bus anymore.](sense-of-it.html) -[I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.](epigraph.html) -[I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game](weplayedthosegamestoo.html) -[I think that I could write formal poems](onformalpoetry.html); -[I thought I saw you walking](i-think-its-you.html). -[I turned off the TV as soon as the end credits began.](dollywood.html) - -[I want to say I take it all back](i-want-to-say.html), -[I wanted to tell you something in order to](i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html) --- -[I was away on vacation when I heard ---](howithappened.html) -[I wish I'd kissed you when I had the chance.](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html) +[I think that I could write formal poems](onformalpoetry.html) +[What did he do when he was in the woods?](options.html) +[He said at the beginning, "It's like rolling yarn into a too-small ball.](ouroboros_memory.html) +[CONTENTS OF THE SHED](paul.html) +["My anger is like a peach," he said.](peaches.html) +[Importance is important.](philosophy.html) +["Hello Paul this is Jill Jill Noe remember me" the voice on the phone was a woman's.](phone.html) +[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING](planks.html) +[I need a plant. I need a thing](plant.html) [I'm writing this now because I have to.](poetry-time.html) -[If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth](sixteenth-chapel.html) --- -[if you swallow hard enough](listen.html) --- -[importance is important.](philosophy.html) +[Of course, there is a God.](prelude.html) +[The problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.](problems.html) +[_Autocento of the breakfast table_ is an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession.](process.html) +[Nothing matters; everything is sacred.](proverbs.html) +[When he finally got back to work he was surprised they threw him a party.](punch.html) +[Okay, so as we said in the Prelude, there either is or isn't a God.](purpose-dogs.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.](question.html) +[Sometimes I feel as though I am not a real writer.](real-writer.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.](reports.html) [Inside of my memory, the poem is another memory.](riptide_memory.html) - -["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) -[It had gotten cold.](dream.html) -[It was a gamble](stayed-on-the-bus.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.](telemarketer.html) -[It's all jokes Paul wrote in what he was now calling his Hymnal.](hymnal.html) -[January.](january.html) - -"[Like 40 as I challenge anyone to come too!](call-me-aural-pleasure.html) -[Look, I say --- look here ---](found-typewriter-poem.html) -[Lost things have a way of staying lost.](amber-alert.html)" -[Man of autumn, cold wind,](cold-wind.html) -[memory works strangely, spooling its thread](last-passenger.html). - -["My anger is like a peach," he said.](peaches.html) -"[My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.](spittle.html)" -[My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,](the-night-we-met.html) -[nothing is ever over; nothing](nothing-is-ever-over.html) --- -[nothing matters; everything is sacred.](proverbs.html) -[Now the ticking clocks scare me.](boar.html) - -[Of course, there is a God.](prelude.html) --- -[Okay, so there either is or isn't a God.](purpose-dogs.html) +[When Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,](ronaldmcdonald.html) +[I lost my hands & knit replacement ones](roughgloves.html) +[He chopped down a sapling pine tree and looked at his watch.](sapling.html) [On your desk I set a tangerine:](seasonal-affective-disorder.html) -[Paul began typing on notecards.](notes.html) - -[Paul only did his reading on the toilet.](toilet.html) -[Paul took his axe and went out into the woods to chop trees.](axe.html) -[Paul was writing in his diary about art.](art.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.](reports.html) +[I only write poems on the bus anymore.](sense-of-it.html) +[The self is a serengeti](serengeti.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.](shed.html) +[He builds a ship as if it were the last thing](shipwright.html) +[If Justin Bieber isn't going for the sixteenth](sixteenth-chapel.html) +[_I don't care if they burn_ he wrote on his last blank notecard.](snow.html) +[in mammals the ratio between bladder size](something-simple.html) +[My body is attached to your body by a thin spittle of thought.](spittle.html) +[He is so full in himself:](squirrel.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.](stagnant.html) - -[Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined](elegyforanalternateself.html): -[silence lies underneath us all in the same way](music-433.html) -[it's the fucking moon. Big deal. As if](apollo11.html) -[two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings](creation-myth.html) -[feel as though I am not a real writer.](real-writer.html) -[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) - -[Swans fly overhead singing goodbye](swansong.html): -[THIS MAN REFUSED TO OPEN HIS EYES](man.html). -[TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE"](treatise.html): -[the definition of happiness is _doing stuff that you really like_.](likingthings.html) -[The look she gave me (Half-hours in heaven are three times that in hell)](table_contents.html). -[The moon is drowning the stars it pushes them](moon-drowning.html) --- -[The moon is gone and in its place a mirror. Looking at the night sky now](moongone.html), -[the other side of this mountain](mountain.html): -[the problem with people is this: we cannot be happy.](problems.html) -[The radio is screaming the man](worse-looking-over.html) --- -[the self is a serengeti](serengeti.html) --- -[there are more modern ideals of beauty](todaniel.html) --- -[there is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.](what-we-are-made-of.html) - -[There is a theory which states the Universe](initial-conditions.html), -[this book, is an exploration of life, of all possible lives that could be lived.](howtoread.html) +["Can one truly describe an emotion?" Eli asked me over the walkie-talkie.](statements-frag.html) +[It was a gamble](stayed-on-the-bus.html) +[He walked into the woods for the first time in months.](stump.html) [This poem is dry like chapped lips.](swansong-alt.html) -[Tonight, as I look up, the stars](finding-the-lion.html), -[waiting for a reading to start](the-sea_the-beach.html), -[walking along in the dark, is a good way to begin a song.](lovesong.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.](lappel-du-vide.html) -[We found your shirt deep in the dark water](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html) --- -[what did he do when he was in the woods?](options.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.](shed.html) - -[What is a poem?](manifesto_poetics.html) -[What is poetry?](arspoetica.html) -[What secrets does it hold?](largest-asteroid.html) -[When I think of death I think](death-zone.html), -[when Ronald McDonald takes off his striped shirt,](ronaldmcdonald.html) -[when he finally got back to work, he was surprised they threw him a party.](punch.html) -[When he said Bible I heard his southern accent](boy_bus.html): -[whenever you call me friend](100-lines.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.](x-ray.html) -[While swimming in the river](no-nothing.html): -[YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED he sat on the couch at home while his mother watched TV and smoked.](early.html) - -[You never can tell just when Charlie Sheen will enter your life.](feedingtheraven.html) -[You think building Hoggle's a hard game?](hard-game.html) +[Swans fly overhead singing goodbye](swansong.html) +[EVERYTHING CHANGES OR EVERYTHING STAYS THE SAME](swear.html) +[4. The look she gave me 4. Half-hours in heaven are three times](table_contents.html) +[_Apparently typewriters need ribbon.](tapestry.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.](telemarketer.html) +[My head is full of fire, my tongue swollen,](the-night-we-met.html) +[Waiting for a reading to start](the-sea_the-beach.html) +[We found your shirt deep in the dark water,](theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html) +[I wish I'd kissed you when I had the chance.](time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html) +[There are more modern ideals of beauty](todaniel.html) +[Paul only did his reading on the toilet.](toilet.html) +[He couldn't find a shirt to go to work in.](toothpaste.html) +[TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY](treatise.html) +[He dropped the penny in the dryer, turned it on, and turned around.](underwear.html) +[I can walk through the rain, that rare occurrence](walking-in-the-rain.html) +[He didn't go back into the shed for a long time.](wallpaper.html) +[I saw two Eskimo girls playing a game](weplayedthosegamestoo.html) +[There is a cave just outside of Flagstaff made from ancient lava flows.](what-we-are-made-of.html) [Your casserole dish takes the longest:](when-im-sorry-i.html) -[in mammals the ratio between bladder size](something-simple.html) -[has been a part of the Unix toolset since the late 70s.](collage-instrument.html) +[_**HYMN 386: JOKES**_](window.html) +[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) +["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) +[The radio is screaming the man](worse-looking-over.html) +[He sat down at his writing desk and removed his new pen from its plastic wrapping.](writing.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.](x-ray.html) +[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: link: lovesong ... -I was away on vacation when I heard--- \ -someone sat at my desk while I was away. \ -They took my pen, while I was taking \ -surf lessons, and wrote the sun into the sky. \ -They pre-approved the earth and the waters, \ -and all of the living things, without even \ -having the decency to text me. It was not I \ -who was behind the phrase "creeping things." \ -When I got back, of course I was pissed, \ -but it was [already written][] into the policy. \ -I'm just saying: don't blame me for Cain \ -killing Abel. That was a murder. I'm not a cop. \ -The Tower of Babel fell on its own. The ark \ -never saw a single drop of rain. I'm [the drunk][] \ -sitting on the curb who just pissed his pants, \ -holding up a sign asking where I am. +| I was away on vacation when I heard--- +| someone sat at my desk while I was away. +| They took my pen, while I was taking +| surf lessons, and wrote the sun into the sky. +| They pre-approved the earth and the waters, +| and all of the living things, without even +| having the decency to text me. It was not I +| who was behind the phrase "creeping things." +| When I got back, of course I was pissed, +| but it was [already written][] into the policy. +| I'm just saying: don't blame me for Cain +| killing Abel. That was a murder. I'm not a cop. +| The Tower of Babel fell on its own. The ark +| never saw a single drop of rain. I'm [the drunk][] +| sitting on the curb who just pissed his pants, +| holding up a sign asking where I am. [already written]: shipwright.html [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: link: love-as-god ... -I. Walter ---------- +## I. Walter 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. 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. [accounting firm]: telemarketer.html -II. L'appel du vide {.verse} -------------------- +## II. L'appel du vide {.verse} And I'll get in my car and drive \ 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 metas = hapax first-lines common-titles index metas += $(templates) +txts = $(filter-out \ + $(patsubst %,%.txt,$(metas)),\ + $(srcs)) + htmls = $(filter-out \ - $(patsubst %,%.html,$(metas)),\ - $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(srcs))) + $(patsubst %,%.html,$(metas)),\ + $(patsubst %.txt,%.html,$(srcs))) htmlPre = $(trunk)/versify.exe htmlPreSrc = $(trunk)/versify.hs htmlTemplate = _template.html @@ -24,8 +28,8 @@ lozenger = $(trunk)/lozenge.sh lozengeOut = $(trunk)/lozenge.js hapaxs = $(filter-out \ - $(patsubst %,%.hapax,$(metas)),\ - $(patsubst %.txt,%.hapax,$(srcs))) + $(patsubst %,%.hapax,$(metas)),\ + $(patsubst %.txt,%.hapax,$(srcs))) hapaxer = $(trunk)/hapax.lua hapaxPre = $(trunk)/forceascii.exe hapaxPreSrc = $(trunk)/forceascii.hs @@ -39,10 +43,19 @@ backHtms = $(patsubst %.back,%_backlinks.htm,$(backTxts)) backHead = $(trunk)/backlink.head backlinker = $(trunk)/backlink.sh backPandocOptions = --template=$(htmlTemplate) --smart + +firstLinesTxt = first-lines.txt +firstLinesOut = first-lines.html +firstLiner = $(trunk)/first-lines.sh +firstLinesHead = $(trunk)/first-lines.head +commonTitlesTxt = common-titles.txt +commonTitlesOut = common-titles.html +commonTitler = $(trunk)/common-titles.sh +commonTitlesHead = $(trunk)/common-titles.head # }}} .PHONY: all -all: $(hapaxOut)\ +all: $(hapaxOut) $(firstLinesOut) $(commonTitlesOut)\ $(htmlPre) $(htmls) $(lozengeOut)\ $(backTxts) $(backHtms) @@ -61,7 +74,7 @@ $(lozengeOut): $(htmls) @bash $(backlinker) $< $@ $(backHead) $(htmls) %_backlinks.htm: %.back | $(htmlTemplate) - pandoc $< -t html5 $(backPandocOptions) -o $@ && rm $< + pandoc $< -t html5 $(backPandocOptions) -o $@ # }}} # HAPAX {{{ $(hapaxPre): $(hapaxPreSrc) @@ -73,15 +86,26 @@ $(hapaxPre): $(hapaxPreSrc) $(hapaxOut): $(hapaxs) | $(hapaxPre) $(hapaxLinker) $(hapaxHead) pandoc $^ -t $(hapaxer) -o $(hapaxOut) @bash $(hapaxLinker) $@ $(hapaxHead) $^ - -rm *.hapax # }}} # FIRST LINES & COMMON TITLES {{{ -# TODO +$(firstLinesTxt): $(txts) | $(firstLiner) $(firstLinesHead) + @bash $(firstLiner) $@ $(firstLinesHead) $^ + +$(firstLinesOut): $(firstLinesTxt) | $(htmlTemplate) $(htmlPre) + pandoc $< -t html5 $(htmlPandocOptions) -o $@ + +$(commonTitlesTxt): $(txts) | $(commonTitler) $(commonTitlesHead) + @bash $(commonTitler) $@ $(commonTitlesHead) $^ + +$(commonTitlesOut): $(commonTitlesTxt) | $(htmlTemplate) $(htmlPre) + pandoc $< -t html5 $(htmlPandocOptions) -o $@ # }}} # CLEAN {{{ .PHONY: clean clean: -rm -f $(hapaxs) $(hapaxOut) + -rm -f $(firstLinesOut) $(firstLinesTxt) + -rm -f $(commonTitlesOut) $(commonTitlesTxt) -rm -f $(htmls) -rm -f $(backHtms) -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: class: meta ... -Hi. My name is Case Duckworth. This is my thesis. ---------------------------------------------------- +## Hi. My name is Case Duckworth. This is my thesis. _Autocento of the breakfast table_ is an inter/hypertextual exploration of the workings of inspiration, revision, and obsession. I've compiled this work over multiple years, and recently linked it all together to form a (hopefully) more cohesive whole. 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. -Process steps -------------- +## Process steps 1. Write poems. 2. Convert to Markdown. @@ -51,8 +49,7 @@ Process steps - 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. - I'd like to build a compiler for the [Index of first lines][] and [Index of common titles][] once I have time. -The beauty of this system -------------------------- +## The beauty of this system - I can compile these poems into (almost) any format: `pandoc` supports a lot. - 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 @@