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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Sightseer begins with children under nuns' care, stiff sheets, Hollywood donations and a collar-wearing authority figure. The narrator compares him to a warden while linking the institution with film, cameras and an Hawaiian war.
The narrator watches the collarman behave like a layman around magazine faces and contrasts his higher cast with the nuns. The revised annotations do not establish a complete explanation of the institution's relation to spectacle or war.
Titled 'Sightseer', the prose begins 'Beginning. We were born.' and describes nuns, starched sheets and a 'collarman' in a children's institution near Hollywood.
The narrator mixes institutional childhood with film and war imagery, as in 'the device of film' and 'an Hawaiian war'. Handwritten interlinear and margin phrases are kept as separate rows.