This persistent occurrence of coincidences between the words and the photograph suggested that verbal counterparts for the stretched halftone might pervade the dictionary and that those terms could be sought out only if the entire volume were scanned line by line. As this search progressed and several thousand phrases were gathered, the words themselves proceeded to form their own messages. The phrases that carried these messages would first label some feature of one of the halftone photographs, then join through links of identical words to other terms until their story assembled itself.
