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By Jack Joseph Smith

of buzz and wind turn as convincing. (Rise to the occasion) and existence. Fad out to the laws whyfor? Deliverence expells back to life. The pielets were enjoying it. He seemed an insect not at rest, nor elevated with web. It had been a good fast, but his mind in secret paced back and forth in want of the world again. The copter spins up, and he twirls too. (Savors from Nam) "Nice bird," Pilots: "Soft gin, and stoned so." Animal: "Got any grass on ya" Pilots: "Charlie, do you have a good bomb for him?" Animal: "I'll bail you out." Pilot: "Another rich communist." Animal: "Twenty inch tommie guns and antelope coats." All is resonance, and Animal is gone...

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page moves from helicopter motion into comic, druggy banter before Animal vanishes into resonance.

The rescue scene breaks into performance: the pilots and Animal trade lines that feel half bravado and half parody, while the machine's motion keeps the body spinning. The closing sentence makes disappearance sound less like an exit than a vibration, as if the whole scene dissolves into sound.