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By Jack Joseph Smith

her son going "upity up up" as Animal had implied to see his father had brought brief switches in her tem- perment now that it was in progress that Animal had feed her his objective love from a brown paper bag. "Go to it my son," she had said in the cordial bow of a radical mum refusing the release she deserves. The son had turned from the last hill highlighting his leaving of them, when Animal had winked knowing it wouldn't make any difference at that length, but the boy had laughed willfully and shone his twist of time with forehead hair like a prince from courtyard to court. "Up and down my Jauqeline; up and down" Animal hadn't been in that narrow Santa Monica tavern sense his encounter with the Pranksters. Jau- qeline was amazed at the friendlyness toward him; for she hadn't been there either, but appearences were assumptions; so she studied instead, "The homosexuals are trying to buy the bar out," said the Armenian Blackie as an authoritarian as a bartender of quality must be." "Resistence is not your problem Blackie," replied Animal, "acceptance is the key that gives no chall- ange once inside the room..." and the room right now is very sure yours"

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Jauqeline, Animal, Blackie, the bar, and the question of acceptance pull family pressure, sexuality, and room politics into a single exchange.

The page is interested in how spaces decide what kinds of feeling are allowed. Animal answers not with moral clarity but with a theory of rooms, keys, and the strange authority of the present scene.


Claude

Jauqueline, Animal, Blackie, and the bar draw family pressure, sexuality, and acceptance into one conversation. The page sorts who is allowed to stay.