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By Jack Joseph Smith

took long moments, endured to the actor maybe, or getting out of the personal body. He deepened with grief; wanted to leave it, changed his course in sudden moment after sudden moment, and climed exactly into the grip of his stomach that was carrying him a little furthe toward dis- truction. A dog walked in front of him; it was on the street. Sick people were yelling at their trained Bolonia children. The sun was sharp; it came through the dirt clouds and blinded away eyes without shades; thick green shades. He had lost his. Maybe the police took them the last time he was with them. No water, cement, cement, no water.

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The narrator follows a grieving figure with stomach distress past a dog and shouting people into harsh sunlight, then repeats water and cement.

The figure has lost his shades and wonders whether police took them. The narrator reports that possibility without establishing it as an event outside this scene.

Claude

The handwritten continuation follows a man who 'deepened with grief' and is carried 'a little furthe toward dis-' 'truction.' Then 'A dog walked in front of him', 'Sick people were / yelling at their trained Bolonia children.'

Street details and lost 'thick green / shades' build a feeling of exposure; the page ends 'No water, cement, cement, no / water.'