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The humdrum traditional teacher asks the question; and when the pupil drones forth the answer, "Columbus discovered America in 1492," she dismisses the whole matter with the phonographic response, "Very good." What a farce! What a travesty upon the work of the teacher! Instead of being very good, it is bad, yea, inexpressibly bad. The artist teacher does it far better.
But on Olga's first cue, her line was spoken with no hesitation at all, and in tone, pitch and inflection, it was almost a phonographic copy of the voice that had served it for a model. There was a solid two seconds of silence. For once in her life Patricia Devereux had missed a cue! John Galbraith had been an acrobat as well as a dancer, and he was quick on his feet.
If the idea is developed, we may perhaps have circulating libraries which issue phonograms, and there is already some talk of a phonographic newspaper which will prattle politics and scandal at the breakfast-table.
I don't mean composing; I mean COPYING. There isn't any definite composing-gait. Very well, my copying-gait is 1,440 words per hour say 1,500. If I could use the phonographic character with facility I could do the 1,500 in twenty minutes. I could do nine hours' copying in three hours; I could do three years' copying in one year.
I will illustrate: PRESENT FORM: through, laugh, highland. SIMPLIFIED FORM: thru, laff, hyland. To write the word "through," the pen has to make twenty-one strokes. To write the word "thru," then pen has to make twelve strokes a good saving. To write that same word with the phonographic alphabet, the pen has to make only THREE strokes.
His explanation was interrupted by the announcement in loud, clear, and deliberate tones, which no one could have had any excuse for misunderstanding, that the train was now approaching the city of my destination. As I looked around in amazement to discover what manner of brakeman this might be whom I had understood, the train boy said, with a grin, "That's our new phonographic annunciator."
Without notes he enumerated the callers at the office day by day from the time when Labertouche had left for the Mofussil with his specimen-box and the rest of his bug-hunting paraphernalia; naming those known to his employer, minutely describing all others, even repeating their words with almost phonographic fidelity.
All this must be done by facial expression or gestures, for of course no talking comes from the moving pictures except in the latest kind, with a phonographic arrangement, and with that sort we are not dealing. "Oh, I'm sure it will be fine!" cried Alice. "Can we go and see you act for the camera, Daddy?" "Yes, I guess so," he replied. "Would you like it, Ruth?"
The average human being is little more than a phonographic record of the dominant race-thought, and race-thought ideas are contagious. Let us honor and provide for all mothers and all children and we will find that the birthrate will increase among the "rich and respectable," where now we note a determined desire to shirk the responsibilities of parenthood.
Without came the shrill ringing of a bell, the sound of feet and the gabble of a phonographic message. The man in yellow appeared. "Yes?" said Graham. "They are at Vichy." "Where are the attendants who were in the great Hall of the Atlas?" asked Graham abruptly. Presently the Babble Machine rang again. "We may win yet," said the man in yellow, going out to it.
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