From bccfb001ad3c250c2fd7c11b92c247abefe8233e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:59:29 -0700 Subject: Move frontmatter to front-matter; add colophon --- text/epigraph.txt | 34 ---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 34 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 text/epigraph.txt (limited to 'text/epigraph.txt') diff --git a/text/epigraph.txt b/text/epigraph.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 2dc2c13..0000000 --- a/text/epigraph.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,34 +0,0 @@ ---- -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