From b5f04621a188ffd07463d66c233601a32e970f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:46:17 -0700 Subject: First complete src/ linking complete --- src/poetry-time.txt | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/poetry-time.txt') diff --git a/src/poetry-time.txt b/src/poetry-time.txt index a4d8344..6223070 100644 --- a/src/poetry-time.txt +++ b/src/poetry-time.txt @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ project: link: worse-looking-over ... -I'm writing this now because I have to. \ +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 \ @@ -27,39 +27,46 @@ 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, \ +[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. \ +[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 \ +the fly still remains to be seen. To \ eat, perchance to fly: all of that and \ -more. We can settle all of this later. +more. We can settle all of this later. Yes, it is you I'm thinking of in your later \ -time: you specifically, not another. This \ -is true for all _x_ such that _x_ > 0 and \ -_x_ is a real person, though it doesn't bother me \ +time: you specifically, not another. This \ +is true for all $x$ such that $x > 0$ and \ +$x$ 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 +[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, \ +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 +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 \ +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 \ +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. + +[electrons momentarily entwined]: treatise.html +[spider's thread]: last-passenger.html +[a figment]: epigraph.html +[some other version]: elegyforanalternateself.html +[when you're older]: found-typewriter-poem.html +[dear Reader]: real-writer.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81