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Harry-legged hell o’ lonelymess o’ (69) on-loveliness

One at a timpepiece Boyhoys Hands Off and Up! Hands Off Feet! Hans off the Hams! Change fingers! Harch! Harch in Finger

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(70) Mindwarts: See” Watts, “On the Mind”.

(71) The ghost of Milt Gross walks.

(72) Japanese word “Harikari”.

(73) Panderangandam: Portuguese word for thunder.

LukeMamGluke: compounded of the Am. vaudeville character Luke Mc Gluke and Madame Gluck, the opera singer.

(74) Turneytables: Knights of the Round Table after a Tourney, and the well-known railroad mechanism for reversing engines.

(75) Choirded: cord, plus choir, plus dead. “March o' the Dead”? may we infer? (Author’s note: Why not?)

Ates! Reverse! Harch! Figure Hates! Mindwarts. (70) Motes in ze mind. Yours of the 6 th Infant. received wit tinkletanks (71) drip-down downy leggish rungirl villainish pursuitful white o’ leg twinkles. Commet no Harry Kelly (72)

Panderangandamme (73) LukeMamGluke

It turneytables (74) out a umbiblicaul choirded

(75) chorus of mailmen

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(76) Storked: Symbol of a new birth.

(77) Adroit, masterful word-playing this! Munson Line boats run to the moonlit Southern Cross land of the Monsoon.

(78) Kipling’s classic “under the Deodars”.

(78) Kipling’s classic “under the Deodars”.

(79) Kloof: South African Dutch word for hill; scuppers added — (Loo suggesting lee) hence lee-scuppers, and Hatch , a winking reference with the eye thrust half into the cheek, to the little known but truly rollicking sailor’s chanty ending “that’s my main Hatch. No more I’ll go aroaming with you, Fair Maid, etc.”

the pstman storked (76) inwit all wet.

A moonshiny moonsson toosoon struckit the Munsonliner (77) Toot sweet: Toot soon: and dey all downdrownded wit der seadog buiscuits an’ gutterperching overunderchews-

Der deerMable draggedunder (78) der udders

underdragged (78)

meowishly in ze (79) kloof-scuppers Hatch!

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§§ Here the author falls into a slight but all too human error of judgment. Yes, his ears do deceive him. What he seems to hear is not the word “Applause”, but the more expressively modern inexplicable expletive:

APPLE SAUCE!!!

§§ Author’s Note: What is that deafening sound I hear? Is it? Do my ears deceive me? Can it be:

APPLAUSE!!!

Chapter iii: my reading machine

The word “readies” suggests to me a moving type spectacle, reading at the speed – rate of the present day with the aid of a machine, a method of enjoying literature in a manner as up to date as the lively talkies. In selecting “The Readies” as a title for what I have to say about modern reading and writing I hope to catch the reader in a receptive progressive mood, I ask him to forget for the moment the existing medievalism of the BOOK [God bless it, it’s staggering on its last leg and about to fall] as a conveyor of reading matter. I request thereader to fix his mental eye for a moment on the ever-present future and contemplate a reading machine which will revitalize his interest in the Optical Art of Writing.

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Source:  OpenStax, The readies. OpenStax CNX. Aug 21, 2009 Download for free at http://cnx.org/content/col10962/1.1
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