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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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Continuity

Philosophy
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

Continuity refers to the unbroken flow or persistence of existence, time, or identity. It emphasises connection over fragmentation.

Detailed Definition
In philosophy, continuity is central to discussions of time, identity, and change. In poetry, it appears in flowing rhythms, narrative progression, or thematic unity. Poets may explore continuity to express memory, tradition, or the persistence of self, often contrasting it with rupture or discontinuity.
Example
Example in poetry:
Bergson's philosophy of duration (durée) — the continuous flow of time as opposed to its spatial representation as a series of discrete moments — has profoundly influenced modernist poetry, especially the stream-of-consciousness impulse and the poem's effort to capture the lived continuity of experience; In Whitman's long lines and enumerative structures, there is a philosophical assertion of continuity — the democratic self continuously expanding to include more experience, more people, more world; Tennyson's "In Memoriam," with its cyclical structure and return to seasonal continuity, enacts the philosophical consolation of natural continuity against the discontinuity of individual death; A poet writing about aging might use continuity as a philosophical concept — the question of whether the person one is at seventy is continuous with the child of seven, and what constitutes identity across radical temporal change; The enjambment in poetry — the continuation of a syntactic unit across line breaks — is a formal enactment of continuity, the sense of flow carrying across the interruption that the visual line break represents; Parfit's philosophy of personal identity, which challenges the idea of a continuous self, has influenced contemporary poets who fragment the lyric "I" across time, questioning whether continuity of consciousness is a philosophical reality or a comforting fiction
Additional Notes
Continuity is philosophically significant in several areas. In mathematics and physics, continuity concerns unbroken, infinitely divisible magnitudes (Leibniz's calculus, Cantor's continuum). In personal identity, the question of continuity asks what makes me the same person I was twenty years ago — Locke's answer (psychological continuity through memory), Parfit's challenge to this answer (bundles without a persisting self), and the Buddhist denial of the substantial self all bear on the philosophy of identity. Bergson's philosophy of time treats duration (durée) as a continuous, indivisible flow that is distorted when represented as a series of discrete states. In political philosophy, Burke's conservatism treats the continuity of tradition as a value — inherited institutions embody the wisdom of generations. For poets, continuity and its rupture (discontinuity) are both formal and existential concerns. Related terms: Bergsonian duration, personal identity, Locke's memory theory, Parfit, persistence, tradition.
Also Known As
Flow
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