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By Jack Joseph Smith

Marie's eyes had for that instant become the gray blue of survival; as if some clash with suffering had cast a perminant badly formed picture on her brain long before the question- was asked. It was unusual to Animal's watching, for her reply had seemed as a warm family joke his own life had missed. "Civilization Marie; maybe we are weighing your own part in civilization?" "Guilts, fears, drudgery and wonder," she replied to her counterpart quietly. To Animal, Joe and Jaqueline let the air hang hoping it to the possibility of mischief. Montreal extended his hand and flipped it open saying, "here at least is guilt, fear, and drudgery. Now how can they be wonder, as they rest upon the largest bones of your per- sonality?" "My hip bone is the largest bone of my per- sonality;" Marie stated. "Well, we can't put it there. So let us consaintrate on wonder. Do you see or feel now more of what is in your shoulders?" "Wonder is wonderful," but certainly I will see what I feel no matter how much this sensation for-

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Marie answers questions about civilization, guilt, fear, drudgery, and wonder with a cool survival intelligence.

The page is conversational, but it is really about what kinds of feeling a civilized life permits. Marie's tone suggests that wonder survives only by moving through the body's burdens rather than escaping them. This reading remains provisional because extensive handwritten additions still need follow-up.


Claude

Marie answers questions about civilization, guilt, fear, drudgery, and wonder with cool survival intelligence. The page is her long voice uninterrupted.