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. --- tapestry.txt | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 58 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tapestry.txt (limited to 'tapestry.txt') diff --git a/tapestry.txt b/tapestry.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b135b0a --- /dev/null +++ b/tapestry.txt @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +--- +title: Tapestry +id: tapestry +genre: prose + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + class: paul + order: 17 + next: + - title: Window + link: window + - title: Toilet + link: toilet + prev: + - title: Phone + link: phone + - title: Swear + link: swear +... + +_Apparently typewriters need ribbon. +Apparently ribbon is incredibly hard to find anymore because no one uses typewriters. +Apparently I am writing my hymns from now on._ +So he was back to calling his notes "hymns." +He looked up "hymns" in the dictionary. +It said that a hymn was "an ode or song of praise or adoration." +Praise or adoration to what? he asked himself. +He thought maybe furniture. +There was still a lot of notfurniture in what he was again calling his Writing Shack. + +The dictionary also had this to say about "hymn": that it was possibly related to the old Greek word for "[weave][]." +"[Weave what][]" Paul wondered to himself. +He wrote this down on a new notecard. +_Apparently "hymn" means weave somehow. +Or it used to. +Or its cousin did. +What is it weaving? +Who is it weaving for? +I remember in school we talked about Odysseus and his wife Penelope, who wove a tapestry every day just to take it apart at night. +I forget why._ + +_Maybe she wove the tapestry for Odysseus. +Maybe she wove it for herself. +What did she weave it of? +[Memory][], maybe? +[Or dream][]? +I think these words make a kind of tapestry, or at least the thread it will be made of. +I will weave a hymn to the gods of Literature, out of fiction. +My furniture was a try at weaving, but I am shit at furniture. +So writing it is again._ + +He wrote _**NOTES FOR A HYMN**_ at the top of this notecard. + +[weave]: likingthings.html +[Weave what]: roughgloves.html +[Memory]: ouroboros_memory.html +[Or dream]: in-bed.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81