From 96ab7a3ce522f38a768e67c73021bf1071832a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:04:05 -0700 Subject: Add Paul; move source files to src/ --- src/elegyforanalternateself.txt | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/elegyforanalternateself.txt (limited to 'src/elegyforanalternateself.txt') diff --git a/src/elegyforanalternateself.txt b/src/elegyforanalternateself.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b52c2c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/elegyforanalternateself.txt @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +--- +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