autocento of the breakfast table about this site introduction autocento of the breakfast table is a hypertextual exploration of the workings of revision across time somebody citation needed once said that every relationship we have is part of the same relationship the same is true of authorship as we write as we continue writing across our lives patterns thread themselves through our work images certain phrases preoccupations this project attempts to make those threads more apparent using the technology of hypertext process in compiling the works that make up this text i've pulled from a few different projects elegies for alternate selves the book of hezekiah stark raving buildings out of air as well as added new poems written quite recently as i've compiled them into this project i've linked them together based on common images or language moving back and forth through time this should give the reader a fair idea of what my head looks like on the inside technology because this project lives online i've used a fair amount of technology to get it there first i converted all the articlesi've decided to use the word article instead of poem because not all of the texts included are poems and instead of piece because piece is vague and to my mind pretentious i'm aware that the true etymology of article does not reflect my use of it namely a little chunk of art a la the personal folk derivation of icicle treicle etc present into plain text files which are viewable here then i used john mcfarlane's venerable document preparation system pandoc along with a short script to compile the text sources to html using this template the compiled html is what you're reading now the great thing about pandoc is that it can compile to and