Hello

This is a book that holds what people know, told using only the first words you learn: 836 words, and no more. A machine looks at all the words here, and words that are not allowed cannot go in.

Because of this, most things in this book go by other names — their true names are not made from allowed words. At the top of each thing here, there is a small yellow question. Touch it, and the true name is there.

There are 31 things here now.

Good places to start

Your Body — the thing you are.
Burning — it eats, it breathes, it grows, and it is not alive.
The Sun — the light that makes the day.
The Small Lights In The Black Sky — each one is a sun.
Love — the one thing this book cannot explain.
The Machine That Says One More Word — the thing that wrote this book.

The things no one has written

Some words in this book are red. A red word goes to a thing that no one has written about here — a thing the book wants. Here is what it wants most:

electricity · chemical · flying machine · government · learning people · many people place · moving pictures · police · adult school · burning liquid · highest ground · other grounds

Maybe one day someone will write them. Maybe you.