The texts
This shelf holds work written in Phi and work brought into it. Each page says what it owes to a source. A translation carries its source, original work begins in Phi, and a refusal answers a source without calling itself a translation.
How the shelf relates to sources
Translation
14 works
Translation answers to the source's claims and distinctions. It shows what Phi can carry when the source sets the terms.
Refusal
01 work
A refusal answers a source without claiming to translate it. The source remains visible beside Phi's answer.
Original work
05 works
Original work begins in Phi. English follows as a close reading rather than governing the sentence.
CertifiedThe mark records a completed translation process, not a promise that no error remains.
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 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
shane weno phoa kirema heno
When a Report Is Enough
At dusk, a friend reports a broken footbridge. The speaker chooses one inspection without pretending the report settled truth, belief, or who must make every later walk.
- 06
rolia sone ma phelona
Worth Does Not Require a Valuer
A fallen branch tests Phi's claim that worth does not wait for approval. Its grammatical proof fails, but the smaller commitment leaves the speaker with a reason to attend and no assigned act.
- 07
phialu nu wi shoeka
A Second Way for Water
At the end of a dry season, a broken clay channel leaves an orchard thirsty and quietly makes a wet habitat. A village finds a second route for the water with old roof tiles, patient observation, and one uncommissioned hoofprint.
- 08
nitho howeli nela sileta
The North Wind and the Sun
Aesop's complete fable in Phi translation, with the contest and its disputed moral intact. The limits table keeps the cloak, weather, and bodily action answerable to the source.
- 09
theula miona
Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Article 1 in Phi translation. Rights, reason, conscience, and obligation remain distinct while brotherhood keeps its kinship without English gender.
- 10
ta haluma
The Babel Text
Genesis 11:1-9 in Phi translation. The tower, loss of mutual understanding, and punitive dispersal remain where the King James account puts them.
- 11
naweri
The Ring Verse, Refused
A refusal follows the One Ring's dominion to the people wearing the other Rings. It names coercion and imposed tying without making ruler or lord ordinary Phi roles.
- 12
mophira nela lo kalora
Schleicher's Fable
Schleicher's 1868 test text in complete Phi translation. The master claim, shearing, unequal burdens, and the sheep's flight remain visible beside the controlled English source.
- 13
thiku miona lue silero
Selections from The Little Prince
Three passages from Katherine Woods in Phi translation: a request for a sheep, the fox's secret, and responsibility for the animal one has tamed.
- 14
wuloe wetha tupiwa
The Velveteen Rabbit
Williams's complete nursery story in Phi translation. Its tenderness shares the page with material expense and institutional force. Fever leads through contamination and burning before the rabbit returns.
- 15
keiro
Selections from the Tao Te Ching
Five complete Legge chapters in Phi translation. Water and the open wheel keep their places, as do barely seen authority, small beginnings, and the tree cutter.
- 16
nulo sano korua
The Heart Sutra
Müller's smaller Heart Sutra in Phi translation, from its five gatherings and litany of absence to one addressed traveler reaching another shore.
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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.