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By Jack Joseph Smith

"That wind is coming in so pretty," Animal con- tinues in excited statement. And all these young ladies on motorcycles with carts at that. A very incredible situation." When Animal was an actor to himself in an outland- ish way, he had the right upper lip up so high, he almost squeeked, so by the sound of him, the human world around did not know if he was a rabbit or a gangster. Presently thinking almost out loud, not a rabbit raised on wine, not a gangster raised on herbs, he lets himself ride. Laid back in the grip of his neck, his mind in the air, like finger motions lit red by little lanterns balanced on his palms. The night was quivering to exactness. A mirror was in the universe, showing them realistically spin- ning through space. The source of them together, and the ending of them together, already projected a single creative moment. And she looked back upon Animal, she trusted him, she said that they were in a situation of Kin- ship. As winds blow toward the canyons of Kauai, the winds in a moment, slipped into shapes equal to what they were about to enter, and in a last wide breath,

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Animal's exhilaration becomes performance, and the ride opens into a cosmic image of shared motion, kinship, and winds shaping themselves before entering Kauai's canyons.

The page keeps tipping between comic self-caricature and revelation. Animal sounds absurd as actor, rabbit, or gangster, but the night around him is rendered with real force: lanterned finger motions, a mirror in the universe, and the riders realistically spinning through space. Lithetes' backward look turns the spectacle into kinship before the winds carry the scene forward.

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Animal performs for himself as actor — upper lip up so high he almost squeaks, unable to tell whether he is rabbit or gangster — while the night around the motorcade becomes a mirror in the universe showing them realistically spinning through space. The page braids comic self-caricature with real cosmic vertigo.