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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker recalls a basketball pass and decides to share a way of thinking about the universe with schoolmates.
The speaker imagines four teammates thinking alike, then remembers giving the ball over a shoulder while airborne. The writer cancels a claim of being smarter and substitutes the observation that classmates were not talking about the universe. The ending proposes letting them in on it.
The typed page says a team is 'dealing with ten and hopefullu four / are thinking just like you' and that 'basketball / is closely watched because very few can play / it', then recalls the time the speaker 'turned and in the air gave it over my back side sholder'. A struck claim of being smarter is replaced by hand: 'They wern't even talking / About the universs, so I / dicided to let them / in on it'.
The page moves from team shape to a remembered pass and then to a small revelation shared at school. The revision matters: the typed boast 'Knew I was smarter' is struck, and the handwritten ending is generous rather than superior.