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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Beauty of Sleep "My name is Lithetes." Lifting her chin straight ahead catching the glimpses of her friends, she continues, "But I was baptized by a Catholic Priest." In his laughter, Animal goes slipped into her cart. "Well, I do not think you at all proper, in the way you jump go into my cart." "That is very nice, but I see your name as being lighter on you than all that." "I am very happy, thank you," she replied. "Yes, and look, the motorcycle is pulling us; we belong to the same motion," he observed. "What is it, that you mean?" she questioned. "Einstein and the Blessid Virgin have tranceended time and become lovers, which makes ffor four happy people." He was filled with a polite smile, and he let it extend. "Thank you very much for the ride," he intoned. Looking directly at Animal, she replied ab- ruptly, "I did nothing, you jumped." "I wasn't in a hurry. Would you like to come off your cart, and run with me awhile?" he quest- ioned. With his words, she did not care if she looked at him or not, and she put herself off into a gaze.

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Under the handwritten title "The Beauty of Sleep," Lithetes names herself and the flirtation turns into comic theology, shared motion, and Animal's invitation to leave the cart and run.

The page balances correction and excess: Lithetes is practical and abrupt, while Animal converts the ride into a theory of motion, happiness, and impossible lovers. The handwritten title gives the exchange a dreamy frame, but the dialogue stays physically immediate through the cart, the running, and her final drift into a gaze.

Claude

Lithetes gives her name and says she was baptized by a Presbyterian minister, and Animal answers with the line that Einstein and the Blessed Virgin have transcended time and become lovers, making four happy people. The page is the manuscript's signature move — romantic banter immediately overloaded with cosmological nonsense-theology.