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diff --git a/age_of_oil.otx b/age_of_oil.otx index 0ec20aa..52e553e 100644 --- a/age_of_oil.otx +++ b/age_of_oil.otx @@ -22,21 +22,32 @@ \def\cbrk#1{\vskip 1em \hfil #1 \hfil\vskip 0.5em} \def\dinkus{\cbrk{* * *}} \def\ld{…} -\def\textsuperscript#1{$^{#1}$} +\def\textsuperscript#1{{\typosize[8/]$^{\textstyle\rm #1}$}} \def\ae{æ} \def\term#1{\e{\dq{#1}}} \def\turn#1{\raise 1.5ex \rotbox{180}{#1}} %---design -\_def\_chapfont{\_scalemain\_typoscale[\_magstep3/\_magstep3]\it} +\_def\_chapfont{\_scalemain\_typoscale[\_magstep3/]\it} +\_def \_secfont {\_scalemain\_typoscale[1200/]\it} + +\_def\_printsec#1{\_par + \_abovetitle{\_penalty-151}\_bigskip + {\_secfont \_noindent \hfil\hskip 1em \romannumeral\_the\_secnum\hfil\_nbpar}\_insertmark{#1}% + \_nobreak \_belowtitle{\_bigskip}% + \_firstnoindent +} + +\def\afterchapskip{\_bigskip\_bigskip} +\def\chapglue{\_medskipamount} \_def\_printchap #1{\_vfill\_supereject \_prevdepth=0pt - \_vglue\_medskipamount + \_vglue\chapglue% {\_chapfont \_noindent % \_mtext{chap} % \_printrefnum[@]\_par \_nobreak\_smallskip \_noindent \_raggedright #1\_nbpar}\_mark{}% \_smallskip\hrule\_smallskip% - \_nobreak \_belowtitle{\_bigskip\_bigskip}% + \_nobreak \_belowtitle{\afterchapskip}% \_firstnoindent } @@ -94,7 +105,7 @@ A version of \essaytitle{Tell Me Why} appeared in Art \& Text, No. 20, February- Elvis Aaron Presley's fantasy of physical contact with his mother, Gladys Love Smith, and his dead twin brother, Jesse Garon, forced him to keep these words muffled and secret inside himself. Their uncanny return took the shape of giving away Cadillacs. -Right away the letters in \e{Glad}ys haunt \e{G}r\e{a}ce\e{l}a\e{d}: both names contain g's, l's, a's, and d's. Garon was privileged with a letter Elvis Aaron lacked, the crucial \e{g} that primordially differentiated Elvis's middle name Aaron from the dead twin \e{G}aron. This \e{g} would then return later in Elvis's life. His last girlfriend, Ginger Alden, had all the letters that Gladys and Graceland had in common. +Right away the letters in \e{Glad}ys haunt \e{G}r\e{a}ce\e{l}an\e{d}: both names contain g's, l's, a's, and d's. Garon was privileged with a letter Elvis Aaron lacked, the crucial \e{g} that primordially differentiated Elvis's middle name Aaron from the dead twin \e{G}aron. This \e{g} would then return later in Elvis's life. His last girlfriend, Ginger Alden, had all the letters that Gladys and Graceland had in common. Elvis's spontaneous gifts of car-giving sprang in part from the hypogrammatic possibilities of \e{Garon}. \e{G} and \e{c} are similar sounds, i.e. velar stops. (The c\slash k sound is voiceless while the g is voiced. The velum, the area near the tonsils, is raised so as to prevent air from entering the nasal cavity, occluding the oral cavity.) Now let us spell \e{G}aron's name: \e{C}aron. The \e{on} is a paronomasia with \e{own}. The buried figure in \e{Garon} now yields: \e{Car own}. Elvis wanted others to \e{own} a \e{car}. The lucky recipients of his generous car-giving could then say, \dq{I own a car.} \e{Garon} is the hypogram or buried signature underneath \dq{\e{own}ing a \e{car}.} @@ -771,11 +782,14 @@ Somewhat removed from our vital functions is the area of reconstructive or plast The car-ideal and its cryptic infestations are no longer merely fantasies that modify our behavior or propel us to utter words with the C, A and R, they also inform one of the most important of human activities, medical science. There the car-metaphor, the gliding of the human-physiological into the automotive-mechanical, shows us how impoverished our supposed distance from the machine is. Not only does the car-ideal repeat itself endlessly (in our names, makeup, clothes, intoxicants) but when faced with adversity, it accounts for a variety of \e{rec}uperations (spare-part surgery and plastic surgery) that further sustain and enrich life. The car is responsible for much that needs to be altered in our lives, and at the same time it is responsible, \e{via} the same redundancies and saturations, for what every human being needs (as expressed in a car wash advertisement), \dq{Tender Lovin' Care.} We may tire of the car's tire that perpetually incises, while we never tire of human \e{cha}rity or brotherly \e{car}e, especially when we find ourselves conveyed by an ambulance's tires. Straightaway, the back seat driver's irony has to yield to hopes for a safe drive. -\chap PERMUTATIONS +\def\afterchapskip{\_bigskip} +\def\chapglue{0pt} +\chap Permutations +{\typoscale[800/]\parindent=0pt\parskip=0pt \begmulti 6 ACHL\nl -ACL \nl +ACL\nl ACR\nl AGR\nl AKL\nl @@ -954,7 +968,10 @@ URG\nl URK\nl URQU\nl XUAL\nl -\endmulti +\endmulti\par} + +\def\afterchapskip{\_bigskip\_bigskip} +\def\chapglue{\_medskipamount} \chap The Homonym Hymn |