From ecda49e0b20ad3bd52449356dccf2f8095ecfb70 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:49:45 -0700 Subject: Flatten directory structure All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /. I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make linking easier. I'm still thinking about whether I should move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into an 'assets' folder of some sort. We'll see. --- treatise.txt | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 66 insertions(+) create mode 100644 treatise.txt (limited to 'treatise.txt') diff --git a/treatise.txt b/treatise.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fdbde8 --- /dev/null +++ b/treatise.txt @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +--- +title: Treatise +id: treatise +genre: prose + +project: + title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" + class: paul + order: 15 + next: + - title: Phone + link: phone + - title: Underwear + link: underwear + prev: + - title: Hardware + link: hardware + - title: Toothpaste + link: toothpaste +... + +> TREATISE ON LITERATURE AS "SPOOKY +> ACTION FROM A DISTANCE" +> +> There is this thing called "spooky +> action at a distance." Einstein +> mentioned it first I believe. It +> is about how two electrons can act +> like they are right next to each +> other although they are very far +> away (lightyears even). For a long +> time this puzzled scientists until +> someone (not Einstein) figured out +> that maybe the universe is a +> hologram or projection. So what +> appears to be very far apart in +> the hologram might actually be +> very close in the substrate +> reality. +> +> I want to talk about this +> effect in literature. In literature +> the writer writes words on a +> substrate (paper) and later the +> reader reads the same words off +> the substrate. Although the writer +> and reader might be very far apart +> from each other in time and space, +> they experience the same effect +> from reading the words. Even the +> writer reading his own words after +> he has written them becomes a +> reader and feels who he was at +> that time, [like a ghost][]. +> +> PROBLEMS: +> +> Maybe the substrate isn't +> paper it's what the writing is +> about. [Where is the hologram][]? Are +> physics and literature comparable? +> What if the universe isn't a +> hologram what then? + +[like a ghost]: howtoread.html +[Where is the hologram]: toilet.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81