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By Jack Joseph Smith

on alley wind pushing down into the city from the sea. "And what of you?" asked Montreal. "What do you intend to do next with your life?" "To take Jauqeline to Hawaii; for us to be marr- ied?" "Don't you think your mind is to much of a riddle to be married?" "I will bring her back to this puzzle; which I understand:" "Why take her to nature; only to return to a city where life is governed by an electronic screen?" "I see the beauty in her bones; The trickster image sees only the clothes and the fashionable layer of pancake; and we will walk in disguises." "Impossible!" "Wrong. To be uncaring about money to make of see movies is such a simple isolation from the madness; that we will never be discovered to be seperated?" "Pardon me, but why drag the lady Jauqueline into burying your father's heritage at the seat of the worlds most aristocratic disqust?" "Because she understands scorn, and she was born here;"

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GPT

Animal defends taking Jauqeline to Hawaii and back, casting marriage as a shared riddle of nature, the city, money, disguise, and aristocratic disgust.

The page treats marriage less as domestic settlement than as an aesthetic and social wager. His language about bones, clothes, screens, pancake, and disguises makes love inseparable from class performance and from his chosen refusal to be discovered by ordinary social rules.

Claude

Animal defends taking Jauqueline to Hawaii and back as a way of turning marriage, disguise, money, and mythology into the same gesture. The page is his own apologia for the trip.