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Part II closes with the words time itself goes by (day, past, future, now) and a form to hold them: the journal. Phi journals in fragments: a time-phrase set down alone, like a date, and then plain sentences. The household keeps one. Three entries:

I

luera philo.
pheralu to lepa. moru to lepa.

ha philo.
phao moru ki shiroka. lo mia therilu.

wireo philo.
melu so shua. lo mia mua thepalu so wile.
new wordsay itit means
philophi · loday
lueralu · e · rathe past
wireowi · re · othe future

Three date-lines, three days. ha philo you can almost read unaided: here-day — today. luera philo, the past's day — yesterday. wireo philo, the future's day — tomorrow. The compounds are the tense particles' older cousins, and the entries beneath them use the grammar you already have: fell, has-repaired, will-come.

II

theula philo. sorae rihe. shero shua.
theula miona ro rihe.
theula pelori ro meliho.
new wordsay itit means
theulathe · u · laevery, all

Every day: sun up, night down. theula before a noun gathers all of its kind (every person, every bird), and theula philo, set down alone, is the journal-date for the things that are true daily.

III

Wider than days:

wirae shua. lo peloru rihe.
keloi shua. waero sulae nai.
muero shua. lo pelori wepu.
shila shua. waero pelui nai.
torua thalo.
new wordsay itit means
wiraewi · ra · espring
keloike · lo · isummer
mueromu · e · roautumn
shilashi · lawinter
sulaesu · la · ewarm
peluipe · lu · icold
toruato · ru · ayear

Spring, and the flowers rise; summer, warm sky; autumn, the birds go; winter, cold sky. And the chapter's one metaphor, offered like a proverb: the year walks. It does not run. It is a Phi year.

IV

nosa.
misheko nulae. lohau mua ponu nulae. womu maeli nai.

theula thimu.
misheko nulae.
new wordsay itit means
nosano · sanow
thimuthi · mutime

Two last journal entries. The first is dated now: the house at this exact moment, quiet. The second is dated theula thimu (all time; always) and contains one sentence, which you have been reading since chapter one and will be true after this book ends.


Part II is complete. You can set any sentence into the past or the future, hold it open, close it, begin it, make it a habit, and date a journal page in a language you could not read a week ago. The book's standing request: keep the journal. Three fragments a day, dated ha philo. It is the oldest Phi practice there is.

The machinery, when you want it: the time compounds live in the manual's Part IV, chapter 14 and the compound registry; the journal practice is chapter 23's.

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