From ecda49e0b20ad3bd52449356dccf2f8095ecfb70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:49:45 -0700 Subject: Flatten directory structure All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /. I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make linking easier. I'm still thinking about whether I should move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into an 'assets' folder of some sort. We'll see. --- src/ouroboros_memory.txt | 76 ------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 76 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 src/ouroboros_memory.txt (limited to 'src/ouroboros_memory.txt') diff --git a/src/ouroboros_memory.txt b/src/ouroboros_memory.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 732d525..0000000 --- a/src/ouroboros_memory.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,76 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Ouroboros of Memory -id: ouroboros_memory -genre: prose - -epigraph: - content: | - He used his body to remember - his body, but in the end could only - remember the string. - attrib: Jonathan Safran Foer - link: 'http://www.bet-tal.com/index.aspx?id=2315' - -project: - title: Stark Raving - class: stark - order: 12 - next: - - title: L'appel du vide - link: lappel-du-vide - - title: Love as God - link: love-as-god - prev: - - title: Table of contents - link: table_contents - - title: Initial Conditions - link: initial-conditions -... - -[He said][] at the beginning, "It's like rolling yarn into a too-small ball. -Sure, you can roll the memories around for a while, and maybe even use some of them. -Eventually, though, you'll wind them all the way out and you'll be left with nothing but a small loop. -You can tie this loop around your finger, and start wrapping your body, but this is an extension of the same problem. -You'll turn into a mummy of memory. -There'll be nothing left underneath but a dead body. - -"But what does it mean, _To remember the body with the body?_ -I imagine a creature made of memory, putting its feet in its mouth, turning into a ball. -In this way, it could roll all around the landscape of its memory. -I've tried explaining this to other people, but it doesn't make any sense to them. -The task of eating one's feet is, to them, an unsolvable problem. -They seem to forgotten that, as babies, they were able to make themselves into loops. - -"So I increase the count to two: two snakes eating each other's tales, forming a loop. -In this way they are able to put two heads on one body. -This doubles the number of memories, which really only exacerbates the problem. -It's like trying to roll two different materials up into a ball. -The people I tell this to don't understand this either, they say using two animals makes sense to them. -They say there must be different types of memory. - -"I disagree with this theory of memory. -I think there is, at bottom, only one type of anything, with subtypes grouped together along the edge of a loop. -Color becomes a good metaphor: look how many of them! -yet they are all consumed by the same part of the body. -Maybe two different materials are still made of material, and maybe they can be rolled into a ball. -Maybe there actually never was a problem. - -"Or maybe, and this is more likely, I need to restate the problem. -I think it all boils down to the fact that I have a truly lousy memory. -I've tried different mnemonic devices, like imagining each thing I need to remember being visited by a bouncing ball. -I've tried trying string into finger-loops. -I've even tried writing the things I need to remember on my body. -If you asked me, 'Do any of these work,' I would have to answer, 'None of them.' - -"Sometimes in the morning I realize dumbly I've forgotten my words, all of them. -They generally come back by around ten o'clock, but the frequency with which this is occurring is becoming a problem. -I feel that my brain is being separated from my body. -Is there a place in the universe for a misplaced memory? -Does it eat its own tail and roll around the universe as it loops? -Does it shrink down and become lost as a tiny ball? - -No matter what happens, eventually _I_ will become _them_ as I lose the last of my memory. -I won't be able to solve the problem of my being, and my being will become my problem, in an eternal loop. -I will roll my body into a prenatal ball. - -[He said]: joke.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81