<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="generator" content="pandoc"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"> <meta name="author" content="Case Duckworth"> <title>Elegy for an alternate self | Autocento of the breakfast table</title> <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="trunk/favico.png" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="trunk/style.css"> <script src="scripts/randomize.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <script src="scripts/hylo.js" type="text/javascript"> </script> <!--[if lt IE 9]> <script src="http://html5shim.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"> </script> <![endif]--> </head> <body id="elegyforanalternateself" class="autocento"> <article class="container"> <header> <!-- title --> <h1 class="title">Elegy for an alternate self</h1> <div class="header-extra"> </div> </header> <section class="content verse"> <p><span class="line">Say there are no words. Say that we are conjoined</span><span class="line">from birth, or better still, say we are myself.</span><span class="line">—But I still talk to myself, I <a href="i-am.html">build my world</a></span><span class="line">through language, so if we say there are <a href="hymnal.html">no words</a></span><span class="line">this is not enough. Say we are instead some animal,</span><span class="line">or better yet, <a href="plant.html">a plant</a>, or a flagellum motoring</span><span class="line">aimlessly around. (Say that humans are the only things</span><span class="line">that reason. Say that we’re the <a href="movingsideways.html">only things that worry</a>.)</span></p> <p><span class="line">Say that I am separate. To say there’s everything else</span><span class="line">and then there’s me is wrong. Each thing is separate:</span><span class="line"><a href="i-wanted-to-tell-you-something.html">there is no whole in the world</a>. Say this is both good</span><span class="line">and bad, or rather, say there is no good or bad but only</span><span class="line">being, <a href="no-nothing.html">more and more of it always added</a>, none taken out</span><span class="line">though it can be forgotten. Say that forgetting</span><span class="line">is a <a href="collage-instrument.html">function of our remembering</a>. (Say that humans only</span><span class="line"><a href="swansong-alt.html">worry about separation</a>. Say that only humans feel it.)</span></p> </section> </article> <a id="textlink" title="Source file" href="text/elegyforanalternateself.txt">¶</a> <nav> <div class="anchors"> <a href="backlinks/elegyforanalternateself.html" id="backlinks" title="Links to this page"> φ </a> <a href="index.html" id="coverlink" title="To cover">◊</a> <a href="#" id="randomizelink" title="ERROR">ξ</a> </div> </nav> </body> </html>