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By Jack Joseph Smith

and diamond structure emplored him be responsible to the letter head. A dry mouth way past the possibility for druel, he bellowed out a sound of primordial signiture, "The ink is east." Animal knew now that the island of Kauai was in good fit, in terms of how he stood for travel as, the albatross flies. So he thought of distance, the level of his body with his mind; and from the red lined ages of Maui wished more for mist to be soft- ened cloud like within. A goal reversed streaked an anxiousness through his sense of spirit, yet still he held back to a poise in need to accept nowhere; But his stamina was sturdy, and without his brown paper bag he assumed the perfected aloneness. The tension of seeing with Litheia in his memory had preferred her place to letting go. Animal knew that there was obedience in reality; for life is praise, like the first time children see the meaning of luckyness. Yet instead of tak- ing this young women as a wife; for he could not drag her to the mountains like an animal, he had left the reality of a dream for the realization

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Animal measures Kauai, Maui, albatross-distance, and Litheia's memory against an ethic of obedience to reality.

The page turns geography into moral pressure: the body wants distance and mist, while the mind recognizes that aloneness has become a perfected condition. The final movement from children's luckyness to refusing to drag a woman into the mountains frames renunciation as a difficult act of responsibility rather than simple loss.

Claude

Kauai, Maui, children, luck, praise, and the renunciation of a dream-wife collapse into a hard single breath that will not be fully unpacked. The page is one of the manuscript's terse hinges between the vision-plot and the return-plot.