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By Jack Joseph Smith

"Come on Prankster. It's easy to do that. You get up close to the devil, make him feel at home, and them zap him; Hit him with your own personality; tell him that he's a sad case, because he can't get fucked. It'll make God pick up his ears. He's heard the sound of an old friend. When a human can shame the devil with humor; He might not have a high backed chair by the throne, but he's got a soft cushion fairly high off the marble. Keep the Old Man laughing; and He's gonna get you off the steps and into the evening celibration. And if you can catch a steam bath before breakfast, you might be able to beat out the angel's for that, good wine; and don't forget the bread good old Mary mother used to make." "Animal, your at the gates of L.A. You don't give a washed up actors twinkle about heaven. You're going on a freak money show, and I'm going with ya! No way you're gonna keep me out. After the Boat House is done, I want to dance too; EVEN without the Hollywood symphony high HEAVEN orchestra too. "Are you concerned with talking to me about sin or raising hell?" "To be through with God; is to be through with the disease he want's you to discover." "You can sink a well with a rod Prankster, but when the well is finished and filled; it can sink your child."

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GPT

Prankster theology turns the devil, God, humor, Hollywood, bread, wine, and celebration into one comic survival sermon.

The page works because it treats blasphemy and salvation as part of the same performance style. The speech turns the devil into a social problem, God into an audience, and Los Angeles into a gate where money, heaven, and performance all blur. This reading remains provisional because marginal handwritten additions still need closer review.


Claude

Prankster's theology turns the devil, God, humor, Hollywood, bread, and wine into one company. The page's pleasure is in the cheerful blasphemy.