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/cereal.txt | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/cereal.txt (limited to 'text/cereal.txt') diff --git a/text/cereal.txt b/text/cereal.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c12f561 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/cereal.txt @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +title: Cereal +genre: prose + +id: cereal +toc: "Cereal" + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + class: paul + order: 21 + next: + - title: Man + link: man + - title: Dream + link: dream + prev: + - title: Sapling + link: sapling + - title: Building + link: building +... + +He woke up after eleven and didn't go [outside][] all day, not even to his Writing Shack. +What did he do? + +He watched late morning cartoons meant for children too young to go to school. +He ate bowls of cereal. +He watched his mother play dominoes. +He played dominoes with her for a little while until she was winning by such a margin it wasn't fun for either of them. +He went down to the basement to do his [laundry][]. +He pulled the chain for the light and it turned on like magic. +"Electricity is like magic" he said to himself. +He thought he would like to write that down but his Implements were in the Shack. +He'd already built up so much momentum inside. + +---Inertia? he thought. +"What's the difference between inertia and momentum" he asked himself as he hefted dirty clothes into the washer. +"Maybe inertia is the momentum of not moving" he thought as he measured and poured the blue detergent into the drum. +"Momentum is the inertia of moving forward through time" as he selected WARM-COLD on the dial and pulled it out to start the machine. +"What do you think is the difference between inertia and momentum" he asked his mother when he opened the door at the top of the stairs. + +"When you switch over your laundry could you bring up my underwear from the dryer" she asked not looking up from her dominoes. +A [thread of smoke][] curled from her cigarette and spread out on the ceiling. + +[outside]: time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html +[laundry]: underwear.html +[thread of smoke]: last-passenger.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81