Short-cut

I think you will find it convenient to put a short-cut on the desktop.

She was appalled by West Egg, this unprecedented "place" that Broadway had begotten upon a Long Island fishing village—appalled by its raw vigor that chafed under the old euphemisms and by the too obtrusive fate that herded its inhabitants along a short-cut from nothing to nothing.

Boats, too, could be dragged overland, short-cutting the voyage from the Clyde to the Western Isles.