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/stump.txt | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/stump.txt (limited to 'text/stump.txt') diff --git a/text/stump.txt b/text/stump.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7f4e4fd --- /dev/null +++ b/text/stump.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +--- +title: Stump +genre: prose + +id: stump +toc: "Stump" + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + class: paul + order: 34 + next: + - title: Early + link: early + - title: Swear + link: swear + prev: + - title: Joke + link: joke + - title: Stagnant + link: stagnant +... + +He walked into the woods for the first time in months. +It was a bright summer day but under the canopy of leaves it was cool and quiet and twilight. +[There was no sound but his footsteps, his breathing.][] +Instead of an axe, his right hand clutched his notebook. +His left was in his pocket. +A pencil perched behind his ear. + +He walked aimlessly until coming over a short rise he saw a stump. +He recognized his handiwork in the way the stump made a kind of chair back---flat until the axe had gone through far enough, then a frayed edge like a torn page. +Paul walked over to the stump and sat down. + +He looked up and tried to find a pattern in the placement of the trees. +There was none. +They grew randomly, beginning nowhere and ending in the same place. +[A squirrel][] ran down one and up another for no reason. +He opened his notebook and took his pencil from his ear but could think of nothing to write. + +A crow called hoarsely to another, something important. +Paul looked up but could not see the black bird in the [leaves of the trees][]. +He looked back down to the cream-colored pages of his notebook. + +He was surprised that he'd written _YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART_. + +[There was no sound but his footsteps, his breathing.]: music-433.html +[A squirrel]: squirrel.html +[leaves of the trees]: death-zone.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81