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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
At a round table, the speaker helps a man with a phone question by referring him to the head trustee. A guard then takes the man to the psycholigist.
The speaker calls his first judgment of the man into question through an ordinary encounter followed by removal. The page suggests an institution through the trustee and guard but does not identify the institution or diagnose the man.
A handwritten scene: 'A MAN I thought was ignorAtE' asks about the phone, the speaker refers him 'to thE hEAd trustEE / A FrENchMEN -', and 'thE guArd ENtErEd / to tAKE hiM AwAy to thE psycholigist.'
The setting reads like a jail or institution, and the speaker's first judgment of the man is undercut by how quickly he is led away.