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By Jack Joseph Smith

The home of Blankname. A good sized mahogany table. In her early twenties; A sister to Blankname. Dark brown eyes, and arse length brown shining hair. Blankname considers this sister the most beautiful women in the world, but she has problems with mysticism. Looks to problems with new cults, but wants off drugs. He knows this is not possible if she follows the Eastern rel- igions. Southern California has not the con- tinuity; there are no distant mist deepened mountains of peace. Streight reality could be the only survivall for this flower. But she is head strong, and without money his realistic positions are splintered with gaps. Just as he sees the occult arriving on the Santa Monica seashores without source for a renewed con- struction, he visions her mind being unaccept- able to his terms without his show of a vis- ible power. (Acknowledgement is first shown in sight, then contemplation filters through the mind into a choice.) For the family he must create something illistrative. Art is functional in Blanknames thoughts. Design into form. The sister places two glasses of red wine on the table in front of Blankname and A MAN IN his fifties Named Jacob

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Blankname's home scene frames his sister as beautiful, vulnerable, and caught between mysticism, drugs, and his desire to answer chaos with visible form.

The page treats art as a practical counterforce: Blankname thinks in design, form, and illustrative power while worrying that Southern California offers no deep continuity for his sister. The domestic gesture of wine at the table opens toward another figure, Jacob, so the family scene remains social and unstable rather than private.

Claude

Blankname's family scene sets competing ideas of art, discipline, mysticism, and rescue on the same table. The page introduces him as the manuscript's inheritance-figure.