Harry-virtuoso-born-musical-mid-Midwest-mellow-
mooing-farm-milky-mooey-farm-;-lullaby-mother-,-
chirping-jigging-Irish-father-.-Spring-red-bursting--
throated-robbins-croaking-frogs-honking-ducks-.--
Music-singing-rails-one-Milwauke-trip-sounds----
Harry-smiling-angel-faced-sound-sensitive-.-----
His-first-violin-lesson-placid-German-local-talent-teacher-Ach-Harry-dont-jiggle-so!-Play-so!-Harry-
fiddling-idolatrous-Mooey-Ma-dishwashing-----scrubbing-floors-.-Harry-fiddling-down-all-harsh--
uncouth-sounds-brothers-made-banging-sordid---
shiny-milk-pails------Harry's-curls-his-individual
egg-shell-mother-bought-coffee-cup-different-from-
thick-white-uncultured-family-drinking-mugs----
Mooey-Ma's-egg-shell-curly-Harry-where-art----
thou?----Harrys-white-gloves-first-public-----
performance-church-sociable-.-Mothers-pride----
mothers-throaty-teary-wetty-pride-even-after-falls-
Pearly-priced-mother-drudgery-what-price-knee--
drudgery-knuckles-elbows-red-drudged-.-Her----
Rosary-her-Harry-play-TurkeyintheStraw!-Naw----
t'aint-dignified!-Harry-Give-us-Empty-Bed-Blues!-
Naw-t'aint-cla**ical!-Ta-te-de-de-dum-ta-te-te-
ta-dumb-Harry-Empty-Head-musical-pastels-fussy-
fugues-balmy-a r i e t t a s-tinkling-tarantellas----
formerly-supposed-tarantula-bite-cure-Ta-te-de-de-
dumb-Naw-no-Hot-Mama-Mammy-stuff-no----
ragtime-rhythms-Ach-Harry-don't-jiggle-so!-----
Neffer-vill-music-come-so!-Harry-conceitedly----
masturbating-music-Harry-sprouting-sixfeetfour--
silk-socked-Harry-.-Mother-bought-socks-----
matching-Mother-made-milky-silvery-fond-----
fondling-curls-Great-gift-parlor-sofa-pillow-----
musician-,-lifting-eyebrows-lifting-egg-shell-little-
fingers-Dresden-daintiness-realold-Dutch-Dresden-
China-dainty-silk-sixfoot-Harry-holding-quivering-
bow-soul-sobs-while-brothers-swilled-sows-busted-
broncos-milked-cows-.-Harry-big-boy-now-taller--
than-three-violin-bows-yet-looking-daily-more-like-
stuffed-Department-Store-Santa-Claus-------
demonstrating-toy-violin-.-Mother-mooing:oH,---
Father!-Harry-must-finish-education-Oberlin----
Musical-Conservatory!-Father-chirping--------
unmusically:-Finish-us-all-off-then!-.-Hara**ed---
Harrys-soul-sigh-lifting-eyebrows-crowfooting----
smooth-unflurried-wide-blank-forehead-into----
heavenly-angelic-perplexity-wrinkles-.-------
Misunderstood-Harry-Miserable-Ma-swapping---
sighful-misunderstood-miserable-glances-------
knowing-looks-interchanged-.-Hungarian-------
rhapsodic-adolescent-days-Harry-doing-violin----
chores-while-Maw-hustled-red-sweating-panting--
brothers-carrying-pails-around-farm.-Crucial-day--
dawns-.-Harry-a e t a t-eighteen-Father-asks:----
Whatho!-Dull-boy-work-or-play?-Harry-sighs----
c a d e n z a-Maw-sobs-l a r g h e t t o-musical-----
interlude-d u o-Harry-nobly-rises-occasion-plays--
p i z z i c a t o!-Maws-savings-send-him-Milwaukee-
first-faltering-step-up-musicmaster-ladder-----
restaurant-job-sawing-wooden-violin-exchange---
bellyfuls-beef-stew-better-than-being-pearl-diver--
anyway-writes-Maw-only-pot-boiler-great-future--
greater-heights-ahead-Christ-look-what-Kreisler--
went-through-Ysaye-Micha-Ellmann-all-geniuses-.-
Harrys-curly-milky-six-socked-beauty-attracts---
ladies-trembling-horsd'oeuvres-acrobats-go-nuts---
before-cheese-course-send-him-scented-notes-bank-
notes-.-Harry-tinkles-like-street-car-conductor----
through-solos-,-his-arty-eyes-above-,-loose-lipped--
ladies-applaud-eyeing-his-thick-jiggling-brows----
browse-.-Harry-manfully-works-way-East-ladies--
helping-heavily-.-Takes-second-selfmaking-step---
great-career-violin-virtuoso-almost-virtuous-meets-
night-club-proprietoress-earns-drinks-plus-food---
jiggles-jingles-fourteen-hour-day-including------
co*ktail-teas-.-Writes-Maw-proud-progress----
-Histrionic-brunette-hairdresser-sobs-into-gin---
sends-Harry-real-violets-after-Masterly-rendition--
Mendelsohns-Spring-Song-.-Harry-writes-Maw:---
Almost-arrived-enclose-two-pressed-violets-please-
note-tear-stains-making-big-NewYork-hit-.-Maw--
unaided-shows-Ladies-Aid-Society-Harrys-letter--
Tells-Father-staytohome-brothers-all-jealous-male-
relatives:-Look-our-Harry!-Pa-corrects-her:-Your--
Harry!-.-German-professor-hears-letter-news----
shakes-hoary-head:-Ach,-maybe-two-V e i l c h e n -
a b e r-Nix-Harry-jiggles-too-much-better-play---
Jewsharp-.-Maw-puts-Harrys-autographed-----
marcelled-Metropolitan-picture-gilt-framed-atop--
dresser-.-Paw-promptly-knocks-picture-off-----
accidentally-purposeful.-Helluva-family-row-----
scene-without-shifters-Maw-tear-melted-center---
stage-mooing-Maw-moaning-heart-picture-picture-
heart-mooey-movie-broken-huddle-over-photo-----
bits-.-Paw-laughs-brutishly-tells-Maw-Aw-dry-up!-
Promises-buy-new-guilty-frame-never-does-.-Maw-
submissively-stifling-sobs-still-snuffles-.-Harry---
continues-playing-way-toward-gilt-framed-fame---
Corner-Broadway-276th.-Street-.-Broadway-finally-
triumphantly-Mawscribbled-postal--card-reads-.--
Maw-still-unaided-shows-Ladies-Lemonade-----
Society-.-Hides-postal-from-Paw-but-lifts----
significant-highbrows-eyebrows-his-direction-just-
like-Harry's-.-Paw-too-busy-lifting-mortgage----
neither-sees-nor-replies-.Harry's-getting-along---
short-long-six-dollars-almost-daily-nightly-.-Then--
great-call-comes-world-sea-call-Harry-writes-Maw-
invited-join-great-sea-going-symphony-orchestra--
under-leadership-internationally-famous-Kosher--
Kosarin-little-wages-but-much-first-cla**-refined--
sea-tea-surroundings-.-Harry-half-seas-over----
groping-through-fogs-tropical-lands-hot-nights---
romantic-just-like-Harry-just-right-serves-Harry- -
right.-Sends-postcard-from-beautiful-Bermuda- - -
showing-city-hall-gorgeous-rainbow-parrot-fish- - -
frieze-mentions-Bermudas-delights-reveals-his- - -
great-musical-success-two-encores-Mendelsohns- -
Spring-Song-three-encores-Pinafore-Medley-two- -
Blue-Danube-one-Merry-Widow.-Saw-flying-fish.-
Maw-reports-great-news-Ladies-Aid-her-cheeks-- -
flushed,-like-Spring-Beauties-What-news-from-- -
Harry?-Surreptitious-proud-postcard-showings-- -
Great!-Just-like-Harry-remember-his-lovely-curls- -
Dear-Harry!-Unforgettable-first-Church-- -- -
performance-his-curls-posivitively-jigging- - -
metronomic-bow-time.-Blessed-boy-way-off- - - - -
Bermuda-fiddling-first-violin-Atlantic-liner-- - - -
renowned-international-music-master-already!- - - -
Herr-Prossor:-Ach-Bermuda-nicht-gut-dot-dam-- - -
Englishe-beer-sour-a**-swill-Harry-jiggles-chust-- -
like-gigolo!-Gigolo-Harry-aboard-ship-feels-- - -
superiority-over-fellow-musicians-piano-player-too-
bloody-English-didn't-always-keep-Harrys-time.- -
Traps-too-vulgar-wore-loud-ties-thought-lady-- - -
pa**engers-stuckon-him-Harry-knew-better-they-- -
liked-him-best.-Fourth-member-Kosher-Kosarin's--
BermudaorBust-International-Orchestra-played-sax-
pinochle-poker-etcetera-had-chronic-catarrh-- - -
smelled-sour-picklish.-But-hadn't-really-great-- - -
geniuses-crawled-up-stuckup-their-manes-their-- - -
lionized-heads-through-just-such-slime?-Harry-- - -
kept-aloof-like-back-home-his-nose-above-- - -- - -
barnyards-still-Maw's-clinging-vine-clean-- - - - - -
smelling-bu*termilk-boy.-Fellow-musicians-loved--
blondes-Harry-loved-his-Art-his-hollow-eyed-stray-
straining-strained-art-impulses-After-successful- - -
Burmuda-barmaid-season-Harry-could-play-M's- - - - - -
Spring-Song-flawlessly-without-music-before-him- - - - -
but-continued-turning-sheets-effectively-Harry-- - - - - - -
stood-up-tall-poplar-tree-other-three-sat-down-- - - - - - - -
insignificantly;-Harry-shook-condescending-curls-- - - - -
replying-applause-when-any.-Lunch-time-playing- - - - - -
never-his-best-felt-puckish-slightly-seasick-but-- - - - - - - -
nighttime-always-Triumph-once-knocked-‘em-cold- - - - - -
putting-over-Pinafore-Medley-four-encores-aboard- - - - - -
specially-chartered-deluxe-Elks-Convention-family- - - - - -
plus-trip.-Lunch-failure-never-explained-probably- - - - - - -
artistic-temperament-morning-sickness-wobbly-sea-- - - - - -
legs-standingtoo-near-terribly-food-smelly-- - -- - - - -- - - - -
kitchen-galley-or-sleeping-all-night-alongside-loud-smelling-
Saxophonist.-Above-such-things-Harry-towered-
tremendously-scooting-fameward.-Next-year- - -
Buenos-Aires-run;-hotter-twenty-sea-days- - - - -
down-trip-ten-lazy-B.A.-days-then-twenty-back.-
Marching-madly-around-deck-fiddling.-- - - - - - -
“Horses!-Horses!”-announcing-deck-horse-races- - - - -
miniature-wooden-horse-races-gambling-first-cla**-- - -
pa**engers-enjoyed-quite-beneath-Harry's-- - -
skyward-nose;-accompanying-booming-drum- - - - -
awakening-Rio-de-Janeiro-pa**engers-all-first-cla**-
playing-“Cheer!-Cheer!-Gang's-all- - - - - -
here-whatta-hell-dowe-care?-What-ta-'ell-do-wecare.-Now!-
Ceaselessly-up-down-deserted-dawn-dark-decks-
Tramp-5-A.M.-Payjama-time!-Dodging- - - - - - -
some-shoes-shoes-from-irate-but-firstcla**-- - - - -
pa**engers-bound-B.A.ward.-Always-honorably-- -
dodging-first-cla**-shoes-first-cla**-everything-- --
aboard-ship-treated-almost-like-pa**enger-only-- - -
once-weekly-Kosher-Kosarin's-International-Pan-- -
American-Pep-Band-cheered-bleak-second-cla**- -
souls-conducting-low-kitchen-maidy-function-- - -
called-deck-dance;-Harry-hated-such-service-but-- -
gradually-forgot-horrors-thinking-what-pleasure-- -
giving-himself-charitably-cheeringup-lowly-needy-
music-hungry-second-cla**-souls-dim-half-souls-- -
thinking-steadily-upon-other-six-week-nights-amid-swell-first-cla**-pa**engers-pouting-cabaret-- - -
dancers-vacationists-carrying-dollies-doodahs-- - -
tickling-away-doldrums-dreardoms-tantalizingly-- - titillating-A-One-Boy-Harry!-From-Rio-de-Janeiro-
(accent-Rye-oh)-Harry-sent-Maw-colored-card-- - -
showing-Municipal-Theatre-scribbled-across-bold--
hand-writing,-“South-America's-Paris-Playing-- - -
here-now.”-Truthful-Harry-James-they-were-- - -
playing-South-America's-Paris-but-hardly-- - -
Municipal-Theatre-time-Maw-made-natural-- - -
mawish-mistake-told-Ladies-Aid-Harry-Opera-- - -
Housing-while-really-playing-back-room-sporty-- -
Praca-Tiradentes-restaurant-where-jovial-varnish-- - salesman-pa**enger-took-bunch-from-boat-- - -
celebrating-Birthday-varnishing-all-Ryeoh!-One-- -
big-Wow-night-ashore.-“Playing-there-ryeoh-our-
Harry-his-beautiful-building:”-awed-Ladies-Aid-
ladies-intoned-“Harry'll-adopt-Eyetalian-name-- - -
come-back-lead-Metropolitan-orchestra-little-old-- -
New-York'll-get-fooled”-they-spoke-toothfortooth-
fine-Eyetalian-eye.-“Shouldn't-wonder”-Maw-- - -
admitted.-“Ach!-Harry-Cauliflower-Head-playing-- -
near-music-some-blind-pig”-said-Herr-Professor.-
Buenos-Aires-triumph-Harry's-first-taste-- - -
Champagne-“They-call-me-Pan-America's-
Ysaye-Maw”;-boat's-name-“Pan-America”-Harry--
neglected-informing-her.-Trip-back-Harry-played-
roulette-Miramar-Beach-Hotel-Santos-realized-- - -
sinfulness-excused-grounds-great-artists-must-- - - - -experience-everything-know-feel-imbibe-chance-- - -
etc.-Harry-progressing-won-twelve-dollars-- - - - - - -
intended-send-Maw-beautiful-soulful-bu*terfly- - - - -
tray-singing-like-Blue-Danube-Waltz-but-instead-- - -bought-blondine-pa**enger-mildly-cursing-parrot-- - - -
because-she-insisted-also-parrot's-head-same-color- - - -
hers;-she-thanked-him-but-didn't-meet-him-behind- - -
life-boat-after-midnight-supper-despite-promise.- - - - -
After-two-years-frothing-back-forth-North-South- - - - Atlantic-waves-waving-same-beat-Maw-suggested- - -
visit-home.-Harry-too-busy-replied-rehearsing-- - - - - -
Pirates-Penzance-Medley-all-new-hit-hard-hold- - - - - -
orchestra-up-highest-standards-all-weight-resting- - - - -
his-broad-shoulders-new-pianoplayer-unusually-- - - - - -
dumb-regretfully-must-sacrifice-personal-pleasure-considering-career-“Will-take-you-son-- - - - - - - - -
honeymooning-Maw-round-trip-first-cla**-Buenos-
Aires-instead-soon's-musical-progress-warrants.”-
Maw-trustfully-imparted-palpitating-secret-Ladies-
Aid-set-about-nervously-sewing-herself-- - - - - - - - -
bewitching-canary-colored-organdie-- - - - - - - - - - -
surreptitiously-thinking-bygone-days-sewing-- - -
Harry's-first-little-shirties-before-bearing-greatest----
living-virtuoso-bringing-him-joyously-into-canary- - -
colored-world-all-pink-dewy.-Harry-would-take-her- - -honeymooning-just-herself-her-artist-boy-Moon-Southern-Cross-Among-all-those-music-worshipping-first-cla**-pa**engers-mingling.-Maw-raised-higher-eyebrows-toward-uncouth-chirping-jigging-husband-not-her-very-own-creation.-Harry-hardened-into-professional cla**ical player---
ambidextrously-flicking-sweat-drops-from-nose-whilst-playing-Liederstraum
soulfully-his-hot-corner-near-noisy-noisome-- - -- - annoying-kitchen-galley-never-missing-single-note-or-one-drop-sweat.-Harry-learned-lifting-arched-- -
eyebrows-half-inch-higher-whilst-rending-haunting-lurking-mystic-Bohemian-Girl.-Full-pa**enger-- - -
lists-thrilled-Harry-triumphant-exalted-but-measly-little-pa**enger-lists-thirty-wobbly-tourists-- - -- - -
dribbling-over-musty-meals-discouraged-artistic-- - endeavor-dispirited-downhearted-downcast-- - -- - -
couldn't-give-his-best.-Small-cabin-list-small-tips--
put-whole-orchestra-outoftune.-Then-came-- - -- - -
Dorothy-trippingly-fittingly-love-fashioned-merely-nurse-made-chasing-two-pink-little-lucky-- - -- - -
offspring-shrewd-American-merchant-located-Rio-de-Janeiro-but-Dorothy-beautiful-dumb-blonde-- - -
pacing-decks-all-day-picking-her-charges-organs-- -
Teddy-Bears-from-lee-scuppers-dragging-about-- - endlessly-to-autos-trains-getting-ginger-snaps-deck-steward's-pantry-too-often-wanted-play-violin-her-- admiration-alone-but-orchestra-didn't-play-- - -- - -children's-mealtimes-she-ate-kiddies-table-Only-- -
time-Harry-could-concentrate-her-attention-
nights-when-she-hung-shadowy-outskirty-among-- - -
stewards-stewardesses-other-maids-watching-
first-cla**-dance-Harry-deftly-executed-many-
dreamy-waltzes-Dorothy-dedicated-bobbing-his-
beautiful-virtuoso-locks-directly-her-direction-Dorothy-- - -
finally-found-out-his-true-feeling-True-only-two-
nights-before-arrival-Rio-but-Dorothy-fast-worker-
besides-ginger-snappy-deck-steward-showed-bold-preference-other-ladies-maids-aboard-Dorothy-- - -
finally-met-Harry-top-deck-beside-big-black
smoke-stacks-blacker-shadows-after-midnight-
supper.-Next-morning-both-showed-black-------
smoky-shadows-under-eyes.-Dorothy-met- - - - -
him-both-last-nights-then-Harry-knew-love-put-forth-
new-art-spirit-put-self-soul-into-his-playing.-Also-- - -
developed-business-technique-producing- - - - - - - - - -
more-better-tips-picked-moony-businessmen-gold-- - -
enmeshed-dowagers-big-wattles-bags-under-dead-bright-eyes-picking-daintily-true-born-violinist-- - - - - - - - - -
picking-his-divine-instrument-plus-plucking- - - - - - -
purse-strings.-Harry-became-star-picker-bowed-- - -- - -
profitably-Spring-Song-finales-warmly-thanked-- - dowagers-trip-ends-pressing-five-ten-even-twenty-dollar-bills-into-his-manly-six-foot-four-hand.- - - -
These-tips-Harry-gambled-pyramided-became-- - -
known-well-known-Casino-piker-Rio-Santos-- - -Montevideo-Buenos-Aires.-Harry-luck-love-- - -
roulette-lottery-everything.-Dorothy-won-securely-
sheltered-Rio-nursery-waiting-one-long-month-- - -
then-two-Harry-nights-twenty-days-wait-then-- - -
Harry-home-tripping-again.-Unlike-her-sailor-- - -
musician-having-one-love-one-port-Dorothy-had-- -
sailor-lovers-from-all-ports-but-their-Rio-visits-- - -
seldom-dovetailed-so-her-dovetailing-progressed-- -
without-undue-danger.-Once-after-miraculously-- -
winning-eight-hundred-dollars-roulette-Harry-- - -
decided-stop-ashore-six-months-Dorothy-holiday--
musical-revel-local-cabarets.-But-nervous-Dorothy-poutingly-pointed-his-art-duty-her-new-dress-- - -
needs-hats-shoes-wherewithals-unmentionables.- - - Together-they-spent-one-joyous-afternoon-off-- - -
shopping-Harry-back-aboard-counting-twenty-six-- remaining-dollars-recalling-all-hazily-while-- - -
playing-Auld-Lang-Syne-pushing-away-from-Rio-
remembering-too-his-firm-resolution-buying-Maw-much-awaited-present-beautiful-Blue-Danube-- - - - - - - - - - - --
bu*terfly-tray-beautiful-blue-resolution-sadly-- - - - - - - - -
slipped-again.-When-they-laid-Maw-away-- - - - - - - - - - -
generation-later-she-insisted-being-buried-garbed-old- - - -fashioned-canary-colored-dress-she-had-never-worn-but- - -also-directed-town-orchestra-play-- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Mendelsohn's-Spring-Song-local-violinist-leading-looked- - like-Harry-who-couldn't-get-back-from-- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
musical-Mediterranean-tour-Ach-said-lowly-- - - - - - - - - - -
mourner-nicht-gut-jiggle-schust-like-Harry-too-fast-jiggles.
(Note: The hyphenated form to suggest movement, continuity of words, word flow, is the only one I can think of. It is inadequate, but the imaginative reader may get the idea of a flow of type in spite of the awkward breaks at the line ends, unavoidable in linotype composition. Punctuation is a problem which can only resolve itself when the words are put in motion. Probably no commas or periods will be needed and any symbol, as /, may be adopted for a paragraph, or spaces of different length may satisfy the reader's eye in place of punctuation.
The form of the Story To Be Read on A Reading Machine suggests the abbreviated dispatches sent by foreign newspaper correspondents to cut down cable expense, it is not offered as a new literary style, it is merely given as an experiment in writing prose that might be rapidly readable when pa**ing before the intelligent, experienced eye. New forms, styles and condensations will suggest themselves. The twenty-five
most used in English are left out entirely, sometimes to the loss and often to the gain of the text. Written in full present-day stationary reading prose this story would be 35 % longer, which would be ridiculous, it is long enough as it is; given its full quota of “Ofs” “Thes” and “Ands” Harry's little life story would occupy 35 % more space, which would be hard on the paper-growing forests and utterly unnecessary.
Statisticians have found that in a novel of 80,000 printed words the following twenty-five are used the number of times indicated:
The: 5,848
Of: 3,198
And: 2,624
To: 2,339
A: 1,696
In: 1,693
That: 1,076
It: 973
Is: 970
I: 924
For: 828
Be: 677
Was: 671
As: 626
You: 620
With: 582
He: 584
On: 514
At: 498
Have: 494
By: 480
Not: 471
This: 458
Are: 434
We: 423 29,661
Approximately 30,000 of the words used in a book, 3/8ths, or nearly one-half of its bulk, are repetitions of twenty-five little words one to four letters long, which the active modern mind skips, takes for granted, now that there is more reading and writing going on.