checkpoint

book/content/ally/008.tex

@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ Current mood: Bright blue with a tinge of purple, but mostly off white and hazy.
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-\noindent\includegraphics[width=7in]{../static/color/blue_flag.jpg}
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+%\noindent\includegraphics[width=7in]{../static/color/blue_flag.jpg}
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@@ -31,25 +32,29 @@ Greens covering my chest and shoulders warmly are happiness.
 \end{paracol}
 
 \begin{center}
-\noindent\includegraphics[width=4in]{../static/color/green_door.jpg}
+% XXX
+%\noindent\includegraphics[width=4in]{../static/color/green_door.jpg}
 \end{center}
 
 \begin{paracol}{2}
 \begin{leftcolumn}
-\ally{And that's when I showed up, yes?}
-
+\begin{ally}
+And that's when I showed up, yes?
+\end{ally}
 Yeah, later that day.
 
 \begin{quotation}
 The navy blue I've been seeing at waist level in front of me and to my left is contentment.  I'm not entirely sure that it being omnipresent is a good thing, however, considering the colors it's mixed with.  Am I really content with longing and hopelessness?  It's not out of the question, I suppose that it could just be another aspect of my personality.  But that just brings up the question of whether or not it's something I ingrained into myself through habit, something where I just kinda accepted that feeling such things is normal, okay, and what I want; or is it something I was born with, or that we're all born with?  Is it a side effect of love, expecting impossible desires and the blind hopelessness that follows the end of a four year undertaking?
 
-\ally{Whatever, you're rambling.}
-
+\begin{ally}
+Whatever, you're rambling.
+\end{ally}
 Guilty, conspirator.
 \end{quotation}
 
-\ally{And these pictures?}
-
+\begin{ally}
+And these pictures?
+\end{ally}
 All from years later. The color thing comes and goes, like you.
 \end{leftcolumn}
 \begin{rightcolumn*}
@@ -89,24 +94,30 @@ It soothes.
 
 Sometimes I'm overcome by the numinous. Sometimes it's colors, sometimes it's you, sometimes it's a silence swelling within my chest, stealing breath.
 
-\ally{He would be riding on the subway or writing formulas on the blackboard or having a meal or (as now) sitting and talking to someone across a table, and it would envelop him like a soundless tsunami.}
-
+\begin{ally}
+He would be riding on the subway or writing formulas on the blackboard or having a meal or (as now) sitting and talking to someone across a table, and it would envelop him like a soundless tsunami.
+\end{ally}
 That's a post-rock song title.
 
-\ally{Is it wrong?}
-
-\noindent\includegraphics[width=4.35in]{../static/color/orange_eyes.jpg}
+\begin{ally}
+Is it wrong?
+\end{ally}
+% XXX
+%\noindent\includegraphics[width=4.35in]{../static/color/orange_eyes.jpg}
 
 I'll take a picture, lasso a color, and desaturate everything else. Sometimes, it's fun. I do it to Falcon's eyes a lot because they're so pretty.
 
-\ally{And sometimes it's something more.}
-
+\begin{ally}
+And sometimes it's something more.
+\end{ally}
 Yeah. Sometimes it's a compulsion. Sometimes a picture will latch onto me and never let me go. Sometimes I'll remove all color.
 
 
-\noindent\includegraphics[width=4.35in]{../static/color/bw1.jpg}
+% XXX
+%\noindent\includegraphics[width=4.35in]{../static/color/bw1.jpg}
 
-\noindent\includegraphics[width=4.35in]{../static/color/bw2.jpg}
+% XXX
+%\noindent\includegraphics[width=4.35in]{../static/color/bw2.jpg}
 
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@@ -115,7 +126,8 @@ Sometimes I'll blow out the background because the foreground is so completely o
 \end{paracol}
 \vfill
 
-\noindent\includegraphics[width=7in]{../static/color/bw3.jpg}
+% XXX
+%\noindent\includegraphics[width=7in]{../static/color/bw3.jpg}
 
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@@ -123,7 +135,8 @@ Sometimes I'll blow out the background because the foreground is so completely o
 Sometimes I'll skew colors all in one direction.
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-\noindent\includegraphics[width=7in]{../static/color/window_view.png}
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@@ -165,6 +178,7 @@ Unmoving and always changing.
 
 A sigil need not just be lines and curves.
 
-\ally{Or maybe it's just mania.}
-
+\begin{ally}
+Or maybe it's just mania.
+\end{ally}
 It may be.