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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Connection places consequence, fury, damage, danger, and brokerage beside the demand to release a finger. Handwritten KillErs and ACCOUNT appear in an arrowed insertion, and the closing speaker contrasts cleaning a clock like a con man with doing it like I can.
The speaker questions how force and desire relate to acting with intent. The revision contains surviving typed words alongside the handwritten additions, and the arrowed phrase has an omitted unstable word. Its uncertainties limit claims about a settled sequence or a named person's beliefs.
Under the title 'Connection', the page works through violence and control: 'Is not to murder, though murder the mind', 'Knowing that everything done quick is a feast,' and 'All watch closely, all should belong,'. Handwritten additions bring in 'KillErs' and close with 'HE SAYS I WON'T CLEAN YOUR / CLOCK LIKE A CON MAN, / I'll CLEAN your CLOCK LIKE I CAN,' and 'SHAKESPEAE'.
The page is an earlier working of material that reappears on pages 005 and 006: brokerage, desire kept 'a secret thing, one at a time,', and the clock-cleaning boast. The quoted 'HE SAYS' frames the boast as reported speech. Several revisions are unsettled, including 'Gizes', 'your bave only been once' and the arrowed handwriting, so the order of some phrases is provisional.