Discourse Markers

Icons can help us orient ourselves in texts and so on. Below are icons we use regularly, along with very brief explanations and links to much more information.

DAO LORE The main icon near the top of a "Build Tao" essay of stringed points. It shows that one or many ways (means) of gaining or building (for) Tao presumably follows. [MORE] [MORE] [MORE]

The bramble bush serves as a humour icon; it shows that its adjoining section is fairly humorous, but not without its thorns, perhaps. [MORE]

One

The first, beginning level of discourse has this heading. There are no fixed images to go with it. Many and widely divergent images occur. [MORE]

Two

Occasionally this picture is dropped, and occasionally a puppy replaces it [MORE].

Three

This image serves to identify the third step of the discourse.
A five-pointed star -

- or

underscore that Tao (some variant of it, really), could be attained at this stage. A glad dog picture may signal the same. [MORE] [MORE]

Summary

A magpie is frequently used to to mark the summary of the essay proper. [MORE]

DESTILLED, THEN

"In a nutshell" - The image of this newborn child shows the summary summarised, often in the form of a capsule (extract) that can be favourable to remember and bear in mind, all in all.

Anecdote or Similar

One of these icons serves to mark anecdotes when they appear. There are possibly hundreds. Anecdotes round off many essays, but not all of them. [MORE]

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