The texts
This shelf holds work written in Phi and work brought into it. Each page says what it owes to a source. A close translation and a transmutation can begin with the same passage and end in different places.
How the shelf relates to sources
Close translation
02 works
Close translation answers to the source's claims and distinctions. It shows what Phi can carry when the source sets the terms.
Transmutation
04 works
Phi prefers transmutation for inherited material. The source stays in view, but the five pillars can reshape the work.
Paired renderings
07 works
Paired renderings place close translation beside transmutation. Their differences show what stayed near the source and what changed under Phi.
Original work
04 works
Original work begins in Phi. English follows as a close reading rather than governing the sentence.
Catalogue order
Short works
16 works
- 01
lothea thole
The Practice of Love
The first text written in Phi: the Metta Sutta followed through all ten verses, with each source claim and image given a place in the language.
- 02
sileta kenua wireo moenu lo sherewa
A Solarpunk Manifesto
The Solarpunk Community's five opening paragraphs and 22 propositions in close Phi translation. Political claims, aesthetic references, and practical proposals stay aligned to the licensed source.
- 03
theama weno kawhera kelu
When care becomes coercion
An original Phi dialogue set in a hot room, where two friends test whether care can protect without borrowing authority and end with a bounded agreement rather than a complete conclusion.
- 04
thena whori phelu
The thing holds its mending
An original Phi essay on a rebuilt garden wall, where the claim that sameness waits on a chosen criterion meets the stone-by-stone objection and narrows itself to survive it.
- 05
ti sherewa henoi weno nai
When a report is enough
An original Phi essay on a reported broken bridge, where acting without believing turns out to be the honest move and the reply to a liar is a criterion of reversibility rather than a word for enemies.
- 06
rolia sone ma phelona
Worth does not require a valuer
An original Phi essay on a branch left where it fell, where the grammatical gap between a worth that takes no holder and a preciousness that does survives its counterexample only by narrowing to a smaller claim.
- 07
nitho howeli nela sileta
The North Wind and the Sun
One familiar fable in two Phi renderings: a close translation for hearing the language, followed by a transmutation and a comparison through the five pillars.
- 08
theula miona
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1 in two Phi renderings: a close translation preserves rights and conscience, then a transmutation turns toward recognized entitlement and reciprocal kind conduct.
- 09
ta haluma
the Babel text
Genesis 11:1-9 in two Phi renderings: a close translation preserves confounding and forced dispersal, while the transmutation reads scattering as sowing and every language as a garden.
- 10
naweri
the Ring Verse, refused
A refusal that names coercion and imposed tying while declining to make ruler or lord ordinary Phi roles.
- 11
mophira nela lo kalora
Schleicher's fable
Schleicher's 1868 test text in two Phi renderings: a close translation retains the master claim, while a transmutation names coercion and exploitation without granting the title.
- 12
thiku miona lue silero
from The Little Prince
Three excerpts in which the source title keeps its prince, the Phi title describes a small person from the stars, and taming becomes mutual bond.
- 13
wuloe wetha tupiwa
The Velveteen Rabbit
Williams's full story, with Real learned through love and the hard scenes of disability, fever, contamination, coercion, burning, and return stated plainly.
- 14
phewo phelui
from The Prophet
Three selected teachings by Gibran. On Children appears in two forms: the close translation retains the bow and arrow, while the transmutation gives their motion to a tree and its wind-carried seed.
- 15
keiro
from the Tao Te Ching
Five Legge chapters in two Phi renderings. The close translation covers every proposition in those chapters; the transmutation stays with household images and recasts authority and force.
- 16
nulo sano korua
the Heart Sutra
The smaller Heart Sutra in Müller's 1894 English, rendered twice in Phi: completed crossing in the translation and a communal wish in the transmutation.
Book in progress
Book-length work
01 work
nophi lue mawha lokue
News from Nowhere
Morris's novel is one work in 32 chapters. The chapters on the shelf carry its political argument from a winter meeting into a changed London and cite the source witness stored beside them.