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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
The narrator describes a hungry man with food inlung but none in his belly, sustained by fantasy, childhood wishes and food's aroma. The speaker then questions music and says one cannot search for life while involved.
The narrator compares the man's roaming to a dog and grants him a dignity that refuses calling. The speaker admits not understanding music before stating that involvement prevents the search for life.
A typed passage on hunger and music: 'Hungry he was food inlung, but none in belly.', 'Dream keep me alive.', and 'Music? I don't understand.'
The figure is compared to a dog that roams with 'dignity never to answer to calling'; the passage ends 'It is not possible to search for life, if you / are involved...'.