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/tapestry.txt | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) create mode 100644 text/tapestry.txt (limited to 'text/tapestry.txt') diff --git a/text/tapestry.txt b/text/tapestry.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e621d90 --- /dev/null +++ b/text/tapestry.txt @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +--- +title: Tapestry +genre: prose + +id: tapestry +toc: "Tapestry" + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + class: paul + order: 17 + next: + - title: Window + link: window + - title: Toilet + link: toilet + prev: + - title: Phone + link: phone + - title: Swear + link: swear +... + +_Apparently typewriters need ribbon. +Apparently ribbon is incredibly hard to find anymore because no one uses typewriters. +Apparently I am writing my hymns from now on._ +So he was back to calling his notes "hymns." +He looked up "hymns" in the dictionary. +It said that a hymn was "an ode or song of praise or adoration." +Praise or adoration to what? he asked himself. +He thought maybe furniture. +There was still a lot of notfurniture in what he was again calling his Writing Shack. + +The dictionary also had this to say about "hymn": that it was possibly related to the old Greek word for "[weave][]." +"[Weave what][]" Paul wondered to himself. +He wrote this down on a new notecard. +_Apparently "hymn" means weave somehow. +Or it used to. +Or its cousin did. +What is it weaving? +Who is it weaving for? +I remember in school we talked about Odysseus and his wife Penelope, who wove a tapestry every day just to take it apart at night. +I forget why._ + +_Maybe she wove the tapestry for Odysseus. +Maybe she wove it for herself. +What did she weave it of? +[Memory][], maybe? +[Or dream][]? +I think these words make a kind of tapestry, or at least the thread it will be made of. +I will weave a hymn to the gods of Literature, out of fiction. +My furniture was a try at weaving, but I am shit at furniture. +So writing it is again._ + +He wrote _**NOTES FOR A HYMN**_ at the top of this notecard. + +[weave]: likingthings.html +[Weave what]: roughgloves.html +[Memory]: ouroboros_memory.html +[Or dream]: in-bed.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81