“ My own difficulties have been compounded by teachers who were at first encouraged by the good results of my symbols. But, human nature being what it is, they soon tried to invent their own symbols... ”
Darpa's eleventh publication is an attempt to teach Bliss (1949–1985), a universal language, made of little pictures, honed for decades by Charles K. Bliss—formerly Blitz—who worked mostly from the office of a boarding house near Coogee Beach. The lesson begins with the use of a video Tachistoscope, a device that spaces images in time, quickly, set up to show you all the elements of the language, one by one, gradually. We offer you a ostensive, comprehensive instruction in Bliss’s happy faults; chemical grammars; speechless inscriptions; and untenable, incandescent loves.
