Vinsent Nandi
FOUR WHEEL POEMS
ONCE THE WHEEL OF THE NORM
Once the wheel1 of
the Norm,
the new doctrine, the new paradigm,
has been set in motion,
there is, then, no way anymore
to stem2
the anabasis,
the advance of the neutral-inclusive movement.
It may go faster,
it may go slower3 sometimes,
but it will never return to its original position
of nonhaving, of nonbeing.
- the word wheel is akin to kyklos, meaning
'circle', 'cycle', 'wheel', and to c(h)akra;
literally chakra means 'wheel' too, but in certain symbolic systems
chakras are made to represent 'centers' or 'levels of consciousness or
awareness';
most importantly, wheel is also akin to
telos, meaning
'(ultimate) end or object', a central concept in
neutral thought as put forward in
the Model of Neutral-Inclusivity
by Vinsent Nandi
- cp. to stem the tide (of public opinion), to stem
the current or to stem someone's enthusiasm
- rather than more slowly because slow may be
used as an adverb after a verb such as go and because slower
agrees with faster
A u r a l a n a l y s i s :
|W|ONCE *the* WHEEL of *the* NORM,
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<<<<<<< *the* *NEW* DOC-trine,
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>>>>>>> *the* *NEW* PA.r.a- DIGM,
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HAS been SET in MO.ti.on,
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there's, THEN,
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>> no WAY A.n.y-MORE
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<< to STEM *the* a- NA.b.a.s.is,
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<<<<<<<<<< *the* ad-VANCE of the
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>>>> NEU-tral=in-CLU.s.ive MOVE-ment.
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*it MAY go* FAS.t.er,
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*it MAY go* SLOW-er SOME-TIMES,
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BUT it'll NE.v.er re-TURN to
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>>> its o-RIG'-nal po-SI.ti.on
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<< *of* NON-HA.v.ing,
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>> *of* NON-BE -ing.
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For explanation of
symbols see below
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THE WHEEL OF THE ANANORM
The wheel of the new Norm
has been set in motion.
There is no way anymore to stem
the anabasis.
It has already been set in motion,
the wheel of the Ananorm,
the wheel of the Ananorm.
A u r a l a n a l y s i s :
*the WHEEL of* the NEW NORM
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>> *has* *been SET in MO.ti.on*.
^ ^ ^
there's no WAY A.n.y-MORE
^ ^
>>>>>>>>to STEM the a- NA- ba-sis
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it *HAS* al-REA.d.y *been SET in MO.ti.on*,
^ ^ ^
*the WHEEL of the A.n.a-NORM*,
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*the WHEEL of the A.n.a-NORM*.
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For explanation of
symbols see below
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THE WHEEL HAS WROUGHT . . .
The wheel of the Norm
has been put in motion:
it rotates with perfect
truth,1
it rotates with personhood,
it rotates with neutralness,
it rotates with relevance.
There is no way anymore
to stop its movement forever,
to cleave its inclusiveness for all.
The wheel may go faster and
the wheel may go slower sometimes.
It will not go back
to being unsupported,
to being unrepeated.
For rotating with relevance,
and rotating with neutralness,
and rotating with personhood,
and rotating with perfect truth,
the wheel has wrought2 a rising awareness.
48.NLY-57.NML
This poem is suitable for singing.
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- literally without variation from path or position
or accurately; cp the doors hang perfectly true
- read "worked" in the sense of effected or made
happen; cp that moment had wrought a profound change in them
A u r a l a n a l y s i s :
*the WHEEL* of the NORM has been PUT in MO.ti.on:
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*it RO-TATES with* *PER.f.ect TRUTH*,~1~
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*it RO-TATES with* *PER.s.on- HOOD*,
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*it RO-TATES with* *NEU-tral-ness*,
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*it RO-TATES with* *RE. le. vance*.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^^
there's no WAY A.n.y- MORE
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*to* STOP *its* MOVE-ment fo-RE.v.er,
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*to* CLEAVE *its* in-CLU.s.iveness fo-R+ALL.
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*the WHEEL may go* FAS.t.er and
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*the WHEEL may go* SLOW-er SOME-TIMES.
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it WILL NOT go BACK
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*to BE-ing* UN-su-PPOR.t.ed,
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*to BE-ing* UN-re-PEA. t.ed.
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for *RO-TA.t.ing with* *RE. le. vance*,
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*and RO-TA.t.ing with* *NEU-tral-ness*,
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*and RO-TA.t.ing with* *PER.s.on- HOOD*,
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*and RO-TA.t.ing with* *PER.f.ect TRUTH*,
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*the WHEEL* has WROUGHT a RI.s.ing a-WARE-ness.
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For explanation of
symbols see below
~1~ dependent on the dialect the verb RO-TATE is pronounced with
primary stress on the second syllable and secondary stress on the first
syllable or the other way around, but in the present context a
primary-stressed syllable starting with the liquid |R| is to be
preferred to one starting with the plosive |T|
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THE WHEEL THAT TURNS
The Wheel of the Norm
turns a want of sense into meaning,
turns a want of strength into means,
gives meaning to the mind,
gives means to the body,
turns the willing truly on.
This poem is suitable for singing
in the following form:
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THE WHEEL THAT TURNS
-- A Cyclic Song
The Wheel of the Norm
turns a want of sense into meaning,
turns a want of strength into means,
gives meaning to the mind,
gives means to the body,
turns the willing truly on;
turns the willing truly on,
gives means to the body,
gives meaning to the mind,
turns a want of strength into means,
turns a want of sense into meaning,
the Wheel of the Norm.
The Wheel of the Norm
turns ... ... ...
[and so on and so forth]
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EXPLANATION OF AURAL ANALYSES
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An aural analysis must show at least the division of a text into
syllables, the location of stressed syllables, and the
repetition of syllables or single sounds. For convenience's sake
this is done here while staying as close as possible to ordinary
orthography. Capitals have been made to indicate a syllable
which receives primary or secondary stress in a polysyllabic
word or a monosyllabic word which receives stress in the
sentence. (Where unstressed, an orthographical capital is
replaced with its small-letter counterpart.) Note that aural
effects such as assonance and word-initial or word-final
consonance may depend on dialectal and personal variations in
pronunciation. The variant chosen is meant to have the best
effect, and need not be the most frequently occurring one. |
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The meaning of the special symbols is: |
x ^ |
a sound used in the same or an adjacent word, line,
sentence or other structural unit in such a way that its
repetition creates a certain aural effect (assonance if a
vowel, consonance if a consonant) |
*W* |
a word or group of words repeated in its entirety |
|y| |
phonemic symbol(s) used to indicate one or two sounds not
represented separately in the standard spelling, such as
|ks| or |gz| for x |
' |
one or two sounds of the strong form or careful pronunciation
which are not to be pronounced, such as deletion of the schwa
or of other sounds in standard contractions |
- |
sharp syllable boundary, possibly after syllabic
disambiguation (see .z.) |
= |
sharp syllable boundary corresponding with a hyphen in the
spelling |
.z. |
a syllable overlap with fuzzy boundaries where the choice between onset
disambiguation (-z) or coda disambiguation (z-) does not seem to
matter |
<<< |
a new line with normal margin in the standard presentation |
>>> |
continuation of the previous line in the standard presentation (in the
aural analysis the words or syllables are arranged in such a way that
the correspondence between sound and/or stress patterns shows better)
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