From 53521711a7cf4eb63190cd4e780b509ac4a1708f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Coquand Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 13:59:36 -0500 Subject: README: Shorter quote --- README | 29 +++++++++++++---------------- README.template.org | 7 ++----- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index a2b1db4..350fd3a 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,3 +1,6 @@ +MCCD + + Table of Contents _________________ @@ -15,22 +18,16 @@ _________________ 1 Stitch - Note Composer ======================== - "The explanation is obvious. The Garden of Forking Paths - is a picture, incomplete yet not false, of the universe - such as Ts'ui Pen conceived it to be. Differing from - Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of - time as absolute and uniform. He believed in an infinite - series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading - network of diverging, converging and parallel times. This - web of time - the strands of which approach one another, - bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the - centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in - most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others - I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us - exist. In this one, in which chance has favored me, you - have come to my gate. In another, you, crossing the - garden, have found me dead. In yet another, I say these - very same words, but am an error, a phantom." + "...Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor + did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed + in an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever + spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel + times. This web of time - the strands of which approach + one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other + through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do + not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, + while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others + both of us exist." - Garden of Forking Paths, Borges Stitch is a minimal grep-based CLI tool for composing and viewing diff --git a/README.template.org b/README.template.org index 7f1899a..9e71aca 100644 --- a/README.template.org +++ b/README.template.org @@ -2,17 +2,14 @@ #+BEGIN_QUOTE -"The explanation is obvious. The Garden of Forking Paths is a picture, incomplete -yet not false, of the universe such as Ts'ui Pen conceived it to be. Differing from +"...Differing from Newton and Schopenhauer, your ancestor did not think of time as absolute and uniform. He believed in an infinite series of times, in a dizzily growing, ever spreading network of diverging, converging and parallel times. This web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not, and in yet others both of us -exist. In this one, in which chance has favored me, you have come to my gate. In -another, you, crossing the garden, have found me dead. In yet another, I say these -very same words, but am an error, a phantom." +exist." - Garden of Forking Paths, Borges #+END_QUOTE -- cgit v1.2.3