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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker recalls farm-town bank robbers, portrays a heritage keeper amid forest clearing, and meets a worker named Roy Ga Nash. Boiler work and questions about nature, violence and brilliance accompany the account.
The speaker describes a handshake and then returns to pipes, fittings, a furnace and steam. Newly restored notes concern moon planting, harvest and contemplation of men like the named worker. Handwriting limits their exact reading, and the narrated injuries and crimes do not establish verified biography.
A typed page: the F.B.I. arrives in the farm town and 'the poor gossip Granny' hopes 'those boys get away'; a 'Traditional heritage keeper' resists 'clear-cut distruction'; and 'Roy Ga Nash from Alberta, Canada' visits the mill with a broken neck, before the narrator returns to the boiler and wonders about living 'with nature in a physics / away from the city'. A handwritten note ends 'ThE coNtEMpLAtion of / MEN liKE Roy Ga NAsh'.
The night-boiler narrator measures himself against injured and stubborn men; the people are named as the page names them, not identified further.