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diff --git a/an-orange-in-flight.dbx b/an-orange-in-flight.dbx index d1979a2..cc5f15d 100644 --- a/an-orange-in-flight.dbx +++ b/an-orange-in-flight.dbx @@ -63,127 +63,7 @@ <year>2010</year> <holder>brian m. carlson</holder> </copyright> - <legalnotice> - <note> - <title>Exceptions</title> - <para> - The author is, in general, willing to grant specific exceptions to the - above license for original, tangible, non-digitizable forms of art - which include copyrightable portions of this work. Please write to - him to ask for specifics and discuss the matter. - </para> - </note> - <note> - <title>A Request from the Author</title> - <para> - Although you are not required to do so by the license, the author would very - much appreciate it if you would use good taste when modifying this - collection and when distributing such modifications.<!-- Some of these - works express very personal feelings and opinions, and the author would - appreciate it if you would respect that aspect of this collection and - its component works.--> - </para> - </note> - </legalnotice><!--}}}--> </info> <!-- }}} --> - <!-- {{{ Dedication --> - <dedication xml:id="dedication" condition="unnecessary"> - <title>Dedication</title> - <!-- Nick, Dave, Neal, Filup --> - <para> - To N.G., D.B., N.N., F.E., and all others similarly situated. - </para> - </dedication> <!-- }}} --> - <!-- {{{ Acknowledgements --> - <acknowledgements xml:id="acknowledgements" condition="unnecessary;helpful"> - <title>Acknowledgements</title> - <para> - I wish to thank Jama Shelton, Barbara Bickart, Sixto Wagan, and all the - artists associated with DiverseWorks, for teaching me the essentials of - discovering my place in art and artistry. - </para> - <para> - It would be impossible to acknowledge all of my artistic influences, so I - will not try, but I wish to sincerely thank the writers, musicians, and - other artists whose work has made such a profound impression on me. - </para> - <para> - I also want to acknowledge Deb Murphy, a friend and mentor, for giving me - the benefit of her wisdom while still allowing me to make my own mistakes. - </para> - <para> - I want to thank the Debian Project, for all the software that allowed - this book to be typeset, and all the other Free Software projects that - made it possible for Debian to make everything just work. - </para> - <para> - I want to thank Sam Duplechain, for providing an interesting phrase which - is the basis for <citetitle pubwork="article">Thus and Not - Thus</citetitle>. - </para> - <para> - And finally, I want to send my undying thanks to all my friends, who have - provided insight and perspective in my life. Y’all know who y’all are. - </para> - </acknowledgements> <!-- }}} --> - <!-- {{{ Preface --> - <preface xml:id="preface" condition="crap"> - <title>Preface</title> - <!--<para> - One of the reasons I started writing was because I love reading. I love - to pick up a good book, one that is emotionally gripping, and live the - experiences that the characters go through. I want to write so that I can - give that gift to others. - </para>--> - <para> - One of the things I’ve always thought important was to have good tools - with which to do your job. In this respect, writing is no exception: one - needs good ideas, good background, good experience, and good writing - materials, including the ultimate essential, the pen. - </para> - <para> - There’s a reason I’m so obsessive about my pens. I think it’s because - I’ve always had an ambivalence about writing. I love writing, not just - the creation and manipulation of ideas, but also the physical act of putting - pen to paper, making tiny, barely legible marks with real ink. - At the same time, I am so slow at actually doing the physical writing, and - it drives me crazy. So, I have to have a pen which will deliver the ink - quickly, almost instantaneously, but which will still produce a distinct - shape on the page. And, of course, it has to be a real ink rollerball - pen. None of this ballpoint crap: I’m expressing an idea, not filling out - some stupid form in triplicate. And anyway, no other type of pen, whether - ballpoint, fountain, or gel rollerball, can deal with the speed associated - with my rendition of the letter <wordasword>J</wordasword>. - </para> - <para> - And I think it’s interesting that <wordasword>J</wordasword> is my most - distinct letterform, which I guess is appropriate in some sense, since I - have so many friends whose names start with <wordasword>J</wordasword>: - Joe, John, Justin, Jonathan, Jesse, and tons of others whose names I have - forgotten at the moment, but will remember tomorrow. - </para> - <para> - That’s another thing: I’ve met so many people that I have forgotten more - names that most people will ever remember. And at the same time, having - met numerous Davids and Chrises, I’ve learned so much about people, - humanity, and life on this planet. - </para> - <para> - I have, for example, learned that people instantly recognize their own - names, even in peripheral conversations that they didn’t even realize were - happening around them. And that above all else, people will protect their - names above everything else, and rightly so, or they’d just be a series of - meaningless numbers: birthdates, ages, social security numbers, drivers - license numbers, heights, weights, and densities. - </para> - <para> - I’ve also noticed that people do strange things: things that are - irrational, unreasonable, and harmful by any objective standards, but make - sense in some twisted way to them. And here, I am no different: I have - my own peculiarities, quirks, insanities, and perversions. But these I - will not share so easily; you’ll have to discover my secrets on your own. - </para> - </preface> <!-- }}} --> <!-- {{{ Elemental Dreams --> <part xml:id="elemental-dreams"> <title>Elemental Dreams</title> |