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By Jack Joseph Smith

3. The man receiving the money was Joe DONNE, and we now see Joe and his wife Jo on a train traveling through the Cascads along the ridges that will soon show the lower rims of the Rockies. They are quiet eating bluebarry hotcakes as the scenery rolls by. Except for her almost unbelieveably long beautiful ringlet blond hair, Jo's face and body are what Greatgrandmothers refer in complement to as common stock. Jo however; in feeling and in origin has little to do with that image. Though Joe ostensibly ran the rooms in the house we have seen, he was very much just another figure; He is the sort of Eastern American who was big and tough while with his first generation parents before he went on the road; In his face we see the slow process of a good man who has adjusted to being coy. He is six feet tall and his weight is down to one hundred and fifty five on a frame that carries 195 solidly in any mill on any or construction sight. And we have mentioned that Pittsburgh is where Jo and Joe are going. In his face you can see that any middle class life in Pittsburgh will be more brutal than anything he has known. ThE fortyish sEcoNd hAir widE LEpEL suit h on his frAME. "What are you thinking Joe?" "Nothing; you'll love it" "We're finished; arn't we Joe?" "I don't know why I headed back Jo. I guess i'm getten drawn" "Your father had a heart attack" "Simple shit" The train slows. We see a Green Baret-Sholder come on the train from a village mountain stop. For the rest of the trip we see Jo look up from meals or come out of her sleeper to see Joe and the clad adverture smoking hashish and drinking

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The film scene follows Joe Donne and Jo by train toward Pittsburgh, describing their appearances, a strained conversation and a veteran's arrival.

The writer directs the reader to see the couple eating, thinking and watching another traveler. The couple's dialogue raises uncertainty about their return. Handwritten clothing and name edits refine the scene, but several forms remain provisional; the characters' claims supply no verified biography.

Claude

Film page '3.': 'Joe DONNE' and his wife Jo ride a train through the 'Cascads' toward Pittsburgh, they talk ('We're finished; arn't we Joe?'), and a 'Green Baret-Sholder' joins the train; the page ends with Joe 'smoking hashish and drinking'.

The script frames the move east as the end of a marriage. 'the clad adverture' is a provisional reading of an overstruck phrase.