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By Jack Joseph Smith

1. SEEing through A trANglE is Not difficulty A pLAN, AN ActioN, A chANgE. Seeing through a trangle is not difficult. A plan an action a change, PLACES At this moment let me decide that coming back to the beginning creates the fourth demention. Beginning at the end of a life might make a right mind wonder if the story teller is capable enough to think. But then, if magic were a part of my dressing gown, I wouldn't be here in the first place. I grew my hair like tweed for years, and then it ended. Hollywood sent me a suit from the forties, and I put it on with a wide soft colar. Catching up to now I know I am sick enough for days of tea, but I feel the door knopb shut me into another dream. These nights for many years have been darker than they should be. I can tell the truth already. The stars across my eyes decided to erace rather than create. You must see how easy it is to lie. Everyone knows; I mean the town laughs at how much I have enjoyed them. Absolutely I under- stood making it awhile back down the highway when Christ walked out of the bushes as a bush and I went back to bed in the bed of my pickup truck. These German streets in the middle of the Amer- ican wilderness are like the bats that grin when they find lea- ther on the machinery. The damm on the river is loud enough to keep the birds away from the worms, and only old MEN with wastecoats will rest there. I read where diencephalon means forebrain, and that's why I walk alot. The tavern is all red or tinted that way. A musician, a friend, quietly is telling me to leave, but I'm having anyway.

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The narrator considers a plan, an action and a change before describing dreams, clothes, a pickup truck, river noise and a tavern. The narrator relates the beginning and end of a life to the difficulty of telling a story.

The narrator shifts from a scheme of places and dimensions to remembered or imagined scenes. The account of Christ in the bushes and a definition found in reading belong to the narrator's claims. Cancellations and handwritten replacements limit the exact opening and closing readings.

Claude

A handwritten heading, 'SEEing through A trANglE is Not difficulty / A pLAN, AN ActioN, A chANgE.', over typed prose in which the narrator says 'coming back to the beginning creates the fourth / demention', recalls a Hollywood suit from the forties, and ends in a tavern where a friend 'quietly is telling me to leave, but I'm having anyway.'

The prose mixes self-diagnosis, humor and vision ('when Christ walked / out of the bushes as a bush'); the food word after having is omitted because only part of it is cancelled.