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

Home › Glossary › Letter S

Slug

Printing
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

A line of cast metal type or a strip used for spacing. The meaning depends on the printing method.

Detailed Definition
In hot-metal composition, a slug is a solid line of type cast as one piece, especially by a Linotype machine. In hand composition and later mechanical systems, the word can also refer to a strip of metal used to create blank space between lines or sections. Poetry printers may use slugs to control vertical intervals between titles, stanzas, and notes. The term reflects the physical materiality of type, when spacing was built from actual pieces of metal rather than software settings.
Example
Example in poetry:
In traditional printing, a slug is a metal or wooden strip used to create blank space between lines or sections of type; A letterpress printer might insert a slug between a poem’s title and first line to give the opening more breathing room; A poet setting movable type can use slugs to separate stanzas without adding printed marks to the page; In a print shop, a slug can also refer to a line of type or identifying information placed outside the final trimmed page
Additional Notes
In letterpress, a slug may be a cast line of type or a blank metal strip used to create space. The intended meaning depends on whether the discussion concerns composition or spacing.
Also Known As
Type Slug Line Slug
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