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/father.txt | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/father.txt (limited to 'text/father.txt') diff --git a/text/father.txt b/text/father.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..71103be --- /dev/null +++ b/text/father.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +--- +title: Father +genre: prose + +id: father +toc: "Father" + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + class: paul + order: 37 + next: + - title: Paul + link: paul + - title: Fire + link: fire + prev: + - title: Toothpaste + link: toothpaste + - title: Early + link: early +... + +"Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed. +He wondered who built the shed for the first time since he'd been going out there. +"Mom who built the shed out back" he asked. +"That was your father" she said. + +His father. +Paul had never met him. +His mother had said when he was a kid that his father was caught by a [riptide][] while swimming in the ocean. +He hadn't noticed what was happening until the land was a thin line on the horizon. +He became exhausted swimming back and drowned. +His body was found a week later by the coroner's estimate. +Paul never really believed this story because his mother's face was sad in the wrong way when she told it. + +She said he looked like his father but she also said all men look alike. +Paul realized he'd been standing at the kitchen window for a long time looking out at the shed without realizing it. +He went out to take an inventory of everything inside. + +"Where you going" asked his mother. +"To the shed. +I'll be back in a bit" he said. + +[riptide]: riptide_memory.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81