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/early.txt | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 53 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/early.txt (limited to 'text/early.txt') diff --git a/text/early.txt b/text/early.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38ddbcd --- /dev/null +++ b/text/early.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +--- +title: Early +genre: prose + +id: early +toc: "Early" + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + class: paul + order: 35 + next: + - title: Toothpaste + link: toothpaste + - title: Father + link: father + prev: + - title: Stump + link: stump + - title: Dream + link: dream +... + +_YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART ART MUST BE CREATED_ he sat on the couch at home while his mother [watched TV][] and smoked. +[Dinner had been chicken][] and peas with [milk][] and afterward Paul and his mother sat on opposite ends of the couch. +At intervals she would look sideways at Paul writing. +He pretended not to notice. + +_ART = ARTIFICE_ he wrote. +_ARTIFICE MEANS UNNATURAL. +ARTIFICE MEANS BUILT. +TO BUILD MEANS TO [FIND A PATTERN][] & FIND A PATTERN IS WHAT WE ARE GOOD AT._ +He thought about this while someone else won a car. + +"Do you think humans are good at finding patterns because we are hunters" he asked his mother. +She [looked sideways][] at him and said "Sure Paul." +"Early on in our evolution we were hunters right? +And to hunt we had to see the patterns in seemingly random events, like where the gazelle went each year" +"Paul I'm trying to watch TV. +If you're going to write this stuff go do it in your room you're distracting." +Paul got up and went to his room and lay down on his bed. + +"If the gazelle went [to the same place][] every year" he thought "did they know the pattern too? +Or was it random for them, did they think each year 'This seems like a good spot let's graze here' without knowing?" + +He wrote _PATTERN = MEMORY_ in his notebook. + +[watched TV]: real-writer.html +[Dinner had been chicken]: when-im-sorry-i.html +[milk]: shipwright.html +[FIND A PATTERN]: fire.html +[looked sideways]: movingsideways.html +[to the same place]: serengeti.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81