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By Jack Joseph Smith

THE LAST AMERICAN CITY- third section - chapter To start with where the characters are now in life at the beggining of this book, and go back to birth. To slowly unravel the memory of them to the first, yet now last thing or thought in their minds. The Porteguse Englishmen The Thrill of the Dance and After Simone Le Gree Subterranean Life in Western Algers David Learry The thrill of the Dance and After Levi Kingston Subterranean Life in Western Algers

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For The Last American City, the writer proposes beginning with the characters' current lives and retracing their memories to birth. The note links four names to The Thrill of the Dance and After or Subterranean Life in Western Algers.

The writer labels this a third section and cancels the chapter numeral. The remaining plan describes a reverse chronology without establishing a final chapter number.

Claude

Under 'THE LAST AMERICAN CITY-' and a handwritten 'third section', the plan is 'To start with where the characters are now in life' and 'go back to birth', followed by four names paired with titles such as 'Subterranean Life in Western Algers'.

This is a structural outline for a longer work, setting out a reverse-chronological approach to its characters.