A quiet notice V2Melody closes at midnight on , Spanish time.

Closes

A note from Richard

V2Melody will close at midnight on 20 January 2028

This site has been a retirement project in musical poetry: poems chosen with care and set to music, offered freely for as long as it felt right to keep the garden open.

The work no longer holds the place it once did in my life. I have gone as far with it as I wish to go. Like a sand mandala, it was made to be completed and then released. I am not attached to its permanence, and I do not believe any of it needs to last beyond the time it was given. The poems were already here before I arrived and began to experiment with them. They will still be here when these musical experiments, and indeed myself, have been swept away, like the sand of a mandala. Nothing has been lost.

I want a simpler end to my life, days of simple love and enjoyment with my wonderful wife of 20 years. The work of maintaining a server, the monitoring, and the residual obligations that come with keeping a site alive no longer fit that life.

From 4 November 2026 I will not be adding new poems or musical poems to the site.

The experimental music I am making now is on my Suno profile. Those pieces stay there, and are not added to this site.

Until midnight on 20 January 2028, Spanish time, everything remains available exactly as it is. That is when my VPS server contract comes to an end, and it will not be renewed. After that, the server will be switched off and the site will disappear.

The Mandala Is Finished explains this more fully.

Thank you to anyone who found a poem, a track, or a quiet moment here.

The pleasure was in the making.

Richard

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Absurdity proof

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Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Argumentative proof by showing the absurd outcome of an opponent’s case.

Detailed Definition
A logical method where a proposition is proven true by showing that its negation leads to contradiction or absurdity, also called reductio ad absurdum. In poetry, the term describes arguments or claims validated through demonstrating the impossibility or ridiculousness of alternatives. Poets may use absurdity proof rhetorically to defend emotional truths or paradoxes, showing that skeptical alternatives collapse into incoherence. The technique appears in metaphysical poetry and contemporary verse exploring logical paradoxes through poetic language.
Example
Example in poetry:
Absurdity proof in poetry uses illogical premises to reveal deeper truths: Lewis Carroll’s “You are old, Father William” satirizes Victorian didacticism through nonsensical dialogue; Wallace Stevens’ “The Emperor of Ice-Cream” juxtaposes death and celebration absurdly; Eugene Ionesco’s poetic fragments mock rational discourse; Mina Loy’s “Love Songs” deconstruct romance with surreal logic; Russell Edson’s prose poems use domestic absurdity as philosophical critique.
Additional Notes
Absurdity proof is not a standard poetic term but may refer to poetic strategies that expose or subvert logical fallacies through absurd juxtapositions; interpret cautiously and consider context.
Also Known As
Proof by absurdity Reductio ad absurdum Contradiction method Apagoge
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