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/no-nothing.txt | 74 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/no-nothing.txt (limited to 'text/no-nothing.txt') diff --git a/text/no-nothing.txt b/text/no-nothing.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..459e717 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/no-nothing.txt @@ -0,0 +1,74 @@ +--- +title: No nothing +genre: verse + +id: no-nothing +toc: "No nothing" + +project: + title: Autocento of the breakfast table + class: autocento +... + +| While [swimming in the river][] +| I saw [underneath it a river][] +| of stars. Only there was no +| river: it was noon. You can +| say the sun is a river; you +| can argue the stars back it +| like [shirts behind a closet][] +| door; you can say [the earth][] +| holds us up with its weight +| or that it means well or it +| means anything. +| There is no +| closet, [nor door][]; there are +| no shirts hanging anywhere. +| There is no false wall that +| leads deep into the earth's +| bowels, [growing warmer][] with +| each step. Warmth as a con- +| cept has ceased to make any +| sense. In contraposition to +| cold, it might, but cold as +| well [stepped out][] last night +| and hasn't returned. +| Last I +| heard, it went out swimming +| and [might've drowned][]. Trees +| were the pallbearers at the +| funeral, the train was long +| and wailful, there was much +| [wailing and gnashing][] of all +| teeth--though there were no +| teeth, no train, no funeral +| or prayer or trees at all-- +| nor a [river underneath][] any- +| thing. There was nothing to +| be underneath anymore. +| Look +| around, and tell me you see +| something. Look around, and +| tell me something that I do +| not know. I know, more than +| anything, that the world is +| always ending. Behind that, +| there is nothing, save that +| there is no nothing either. +| +| Nothing somehow still turns +| and flows past us, past all +| time and beyond it, a river +| returning, to its forgotten +| origins deep within itself. + +[swimming in the river]: father.html +[shirts behind a closet]: lovessong.html +[the earth]: big-dipper.html +[nor door]: amber-alert.html +[growing warmer]: real-writer.html +[stepped out]: i-think-its-you.html +[might've drowned]: in-bed.html +[wailing and gnashing]: http://biblehub.com/luke/13-28.htm +[river underneath]: howtoread.html +[underneath it a river]: music-433.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81