From 43e2b69dfb0d37cce157ea78a35b47e54c85c7d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:13:08 -0700 Subject: Fix bad commit / other issues --- elegyforanalternateself.txt | 26 -------------------------- 1 file changed, 26 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 elegyforanalternateself.txt (limited to 'elegyforanalternateself.txt') diff --git a/elegyforanalternateself.txt b/elegyforanalternateself.txt deleted file mode 100644 index b52c2c4..0000000 --- a/elegyforanalternateself.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,26 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Elegy for an alternate self -genre: verse - -project: - title: Autocento of the breakfast table - css: autocento -... - -Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined \ -from birth, or better still, say we are myself. \ ----But I still talk to myself, I build my world \ -through language, so if we say there are no words \ -this is not enough. Say we are instead some animal, \ -or better yet, a plant, or a flagellum motoring \ -aimlessly around. (Say that humans are the only things \ -that reason. Say that we're the only things that worry.) - -Say that I am separate. To say there's everything else \ -and then there's me is wrong. Each thing is separate: \ -there is no whole in the world. Say this is both good \ -and bad, or rather, say there is no good or bad but only \ -being, more and more of it always added, none taken out \ -though it can be forgotten. Say that forgetting \ -is a function of our remembering. (Say that humans only \ -worry about separation. Say that only humans feel it.) -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81