From 9fce418b46c9f0894f429384ef9e3dabaeffbeb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 16:36:17 -0700 Subject: Change file hierarchy and rewrite makefile - File hierarchy is now as follows: - / - appendix/ < appendix source files - backlinks/ < backlink sources & builds - hapax/ < *.hapax source files - scripts/ < scripts, like *.js, *.hs, etc. - templates/ < templates for outputs - text/ < source files - trunk/ < assets, like css, images, heads, etc. - index.html - *.html - Makefile --- text/about-the-author.txt | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 69 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/about-the-author.txt (limited to 'text/about-the-author.txt') diff --git a/text/about-the-author.txt b/text/about-the-author.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..91e90a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/about-the-author.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +--- +title: About the author +subtitle: (not pictured) +genre: table + +id: about-the-author +toc: "About the author (not pictured)" + +epigraph: + content: The body that surrounds him is his, but his insides are not. + +project: + title: Stark Raving + class: stark + order: 19 + prev: + - title: Something about all music being performances of _4′33″_ in places where other bands happen to be playing + link: music-433 + - title: Riptide of memory + link: riptide_memory +... + +----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ +[He was born][] on a few separate occasions _[green traffic lights][] at night_ + +There was the day of his conception \ _[a TV in front of a dumpster][]_ +a wintery affair saved for those involved + +The day he wriggled forth \ +from the dark tunnel of nothing \ _surprise photo of you at Walgreen's_ +[his mother's womb][] + +The founding of his little city \ +deep inside by the small builders \ _a [pink dress in the alley][] behind your house_ +alien as they were and still \ +somehow intimately familiar + +Like any city it had its ups \ +and downs the fever of 1994 \ _me buying a Reese's peanut butter cup for a child_ \ +was especially devastating \ _[whose family couldn't afford it]_ \ +but they were a hardy folk \ _[in front of me in line at Safeway][]_ +not much given to flight + +As all things must pass the \ +little city began slowly to decay \ _trees at night their skeletons_ \ +the [old ones claimed the young][] \ _revealed by a camera flash_ +had no respect for culture anymore + +They began to die off slowly \ +more quickly than being born \ _[two earthworms on pavement after a rain][]_ +the end was coming closer + +As the [last breath][] was made \ +the last accounts closed in the city _keys tacked to a sign in Buffalo Park_ + +It was given over to other builders _man flipping a [four-wheeler][] and walking it off_ + +----------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ + +[two earthworms on pavement after a rain]: the-sea_the-beach.html +[He was born]: sixteenth-chapel.html +[a TV in front of a dumpster]: options.html +[his mother's womb]: death-zone.html +[green traffic lights]: stayed-on-the-bus.html +[pink dress in the alley]: in-bed.html +[in front of me in line at Safeway]: last-bastion.html +[old ones claimed the young]: creation-myth.html +[last breath]: last-passenger.html +[four-wheeler]: deadman.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81