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   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,
  ^            ^^             ^  ^
 <<<<<<< *the* *NEW* DOC-trine,
                ^    ^    ^^^^
 >>>>>>> *the* *NEW* PA.r.a-  DIGM,
                ^       ^ ^   ^  ^
 HAS been SET in  MO.ti.on,
     ^    ^       ^  ^^ ^^
 there's, THEN,
 ^^^      ^^^^
 >> no  WAY A.n.y-MORE
        ^   ^ ^   ^
 << to STEM *the* a- NA.b.a.s.is,
       ^ ^   ^^^  ^  ^^ ^   ^
 <<<<<<<<<< *the* ad-VANCE of  the
             ^^^  ^   ^        ^^
 >>>> NEU-tral=in-CLU.s.ive MOVE-ment.
      ^^^   ^       ^   ^^^ ^^   ^^
*it MAY go* FAS.t.er,
    ^             ^^
*it MAY go* SLOW-er SOME-TIMES,
         ^  ^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^   ^^
 BUT it'll NE.v.er  re-TURN  to
  ^^ ^^         ^^     ^     ^
 >>> its o-RIG'-nal po-SI.ti.on
     ^^  ^  ^    ^   ^  ^ ^^ ^^
 << *of* NON-HA.v.ing,
     ^^  ^^^    ^ ^^^
 >> *of* NON-BE  -ing.
     ^^  ^^^      ^^^
 
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
      ^^            ^   ^^^^
 >> *has*            *been SET in MO.ti.on*.
                      ^    ^      ^
 there's no  WAY A.n.y-MORE
             ^         ^
 >>>>>>>>to STEM the a- NA-  ba-sis
            ^                ^  ^
 it *HAS* al-REA.d.y *been SET in MO.ti.on*,
                      ^    ^      ^
*the WHEEL of the A.n.a-NORM*,
     ^^             ^   ^^^^
*the WHEEL of the A.n.a-NORM*.
     ^^             ^   ^^^^
 
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:
 ^^^ ^^                          ^^   ^ ^      ^
*it RO-TATES with* *PER.f.ect TRUTH*,~1~
       ^     ^^^^   ^^^   ^   ^^^^^
*it RO-TATES with* *PER.s.on- HOOD*,
             ^      ^^^   ^    ^^
*it RO-TATES with* *NEU-tral-ness*,
       ^     ^      ^^^ ^^^  ^^^^
*it RO-TATES with* *RE. le. vance*.
    ^        ^      ^    ^   ^ ^^
 there's no  WAY A.n.y- MORE
 ^^^   ^     ^          ^^^^
*to* STOP   *its* MOVE-ment fo-RE.v.er,
     ^^           ^^^^ ^    ^^^^     ^
*to* CLEAVE *its* in-CLU.s.iveness fo-R+ALL.
     ^^  ^^       ^  ^^^    ^^^^^^ ^^^^
*the WHEEL may go* FAS.t.er and
 ^^^       ^             ^^
*the WHEEL may go* SLOW-er SOME-TIMES.
     ^   ^     ^^  ^ ^^ ^^ ^ ^^ ^ ^
 it WILL NOT go BACK
  ^ ^ ^^     ^^ ^
*to BE-ing* UN-su-PPOR.t.ed,
    ^       ^^    ^^^^ ^ ^^
*to BE-ing* UN-re-PEA. t.ed.
       ^^^  ^^    ^    ^ ^^
 for *RO-TA.t.ing with* *RE. le. vance*,
      ^  ^  ^ ^^^ ^      ^    ^   ^ ^^
*and  RO-TA.t.ing with* *NEU-tral-ness*,
 ^^^     ^  ^     ^      ^^^ ^ ^  ^^^^
*and  RO-TA.t.ing with* *PER.s.on- HOOD*,
         ^  ^     ^      ^^^   ^
*and  RO-TA.t.ing with* *PER.f.ect TRUTH*,
         ^  ^ ^^^ ^      ^^^   ^   ^ ^
*the WHEEL* has WROUGHT a RI.s.ing a-WARE-ness.
     ^^         ^^      ^ ^    ^^^ ^ ^    ^^^^
 
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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