Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-22
NOVEL OF THE FUTURE
Imaginary oietation (Not Far wrons)
 by Author to Typist.

Imaginary Oictztion (Not Far Wrons)
 by Author to Typist-
 "ATOw. Miss Barlock." I said to my
 IV typist as entered my writing
 den.-..if you're quite ready we'll begin at once. please, ritle The Syn thetic Pilgrim-A Post Impressionist Romance Have you got that:" Miss Bariock had got that. but she looked puzzled.
 Chapter 1-Tbe Hero and How He Became a Pilgrim.-He was quite a simple. ordinary kind of man. His outlines were hard and black. He had a small, roundish head with three dots in it, one above the other. His body was triangular, and all down it was a row of little circles. These were his buttons. His arms were straight and quite thin. They ended iA tkxee prongs like toaxtizs sezn h szrs ees same with his laaA's
 l notices eea=e.s eAs@z@=s sz Miss Barlock's eyehrows d ekls psezt Its all right, Miss Barlock." assured her T am merely adopting the method by which an unsophisticated mind inyari- ably represents the human form. You don't know? No more do 1, so let us get on.
 He lived in a really and truly ar- tistic house. It was an irregular par allelogram. and the roof was bright pink. The door and windows were stuck in anyhow. and there were little cOrkseFew things coming out of the chimneys. These were the smoke. There were trees about. Not any par ticular trees. because l don't know one tree from mother and couldn't bother to describe them if did. Just trees- with bright blue and green and choco- late foliage like the lovellest wool work. There was a bowwow outside the house, and inside it a fat cat sat on a mat. But at last the hero go; tired of living there. so he called for his gee-gee. Gug-gug.' Yes. Miss Bar lock. did mean that 10 be typed.
 ''So down it goes. Chapter 2-About Ills gee.-Unless you were told you would not have known 1t for a gee-gee at all. It was the sort of gee gee you see when it is a long way off and you are rather shortsighted. But 1t was a gee-gee right enough. It had all the essentials of gee-gee-iness. If it hadn't our hero wouldn't have been seen with 1t. And so be said goodby to his bowwow and the fat cat. and he got on his gee-gee. and his travels be gan. GOO-goo.'
 sr-go oosas typed. Miss Barlock." told her. Its part of my technique. You are merely one of the public. so you mustn't try to dictate to me how I should express my temperament Besides. I'm dictat- Ing to you. Chapter 3--His Adven- lures Among Masterpieces.
 "'well. and so he rode and he rode till at last he came to country which was entirely composed of little primat- ic smuts. so that you couldn't make out what it was like unless you went ever such a distance on. and then 1t was disappointing. So he didn't stay there very long. And the shuts did not suit his gee-gee at all. So on they went to the next place. But the gee gee wasn't very well even there
 Here Miss Bariock veDtured the criti- cism that so far my novel did uot ap- pear to have much plot 1t has none whatever" ! said. with some pride. and it's not going 10 have. I'm de- pieting fife as I've observed it. Have I detected any kind of plot governing my own or others experiences: l have not Then why. ask you. Miss Bar lock. should I undertake the mental i labor of inventiDg one? No. no. let Us be true to nature as we happen to see 1 It. Chapter 4-His Further Adventure !
 "'SO he got on his see-gee again. and ! he rode and he rode and be rode. And | soon he came to a land where there were huts and palm trees and things. | and all the natives were brown and ] quite fat. exactly like people made of i gingerbreed- -enlx they were poi so nice |