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/epigraph.txt | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/epigraph.txt (limited to 'text/epigraph.txt') diff --git a/text/epigraph.txt b/text/epigraph.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2dc2c13 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/epigraph.txt @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +title: epigraph +subtitle: "– Sylvia Plath" +genre: prose + +id: epigraph +toc: "_epigraph_" + +project: + title: Elegies for alternate selves + class: elegies + order: 1 + next: + - title: How to read this + link: howtoreadthis + prev: + - title: Death's Trumpet + link: deathstrumpet +... + +I saw my life branching out before me like the [green fig tree][] in the story. +From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. +One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, +and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, +and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, +and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, +and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of [other lovers][] and queer names and offbeat professions, +and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. +I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to [death][], just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. +I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. + +[other lovers]: spittle.html +[death]: deathstrumpet.html +[green fig tree]: peaches.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81