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By Jack Joseph Smith

strange to the toongue and Eye of Everything thad has Ever introduced itself for Electricity has vibrations too. Why was he not near the sea, or even the lake as sea as in Chicago. No water no presence; unless in space, and this space was not as a sand desert with a dream; it was overpopulated with with plastic catus. He thought of the rat, and knew that here he could not even sip from the sewer All was hidden from his eyes, but his own hunger, which was not abstract, but very real in the sense that he was always willing to go along immediately with anything that made him feel true to anything finer to his state of mind

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The narrator compares electric city life with absent water, then follows the figure's thought of a rat, a sewer and his own hunger.

The figure thinks of a rat but cannot sip from the sewer. He seeks water and something finer for his state of mind while the narrator insists on the physical reality of his hunger.


Claude

The handwritten passage opens 'strange to the toongue and / Eye of Everything', notes 'Electricity has vibrations too.', and asks 'Why was he not near the sea,'. It names 'plastic catus', 'the rat' and 'the / sewer'.

The figure's 'own hunger' is described as 'not abstract, but / very real', pushing him toward 'anything / finer to his state of mind'.