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Wickedness appears attractive enough to mirror the speaker back to himself, while even the deep hurt of `imaginatim` is said to be lost in the present time.

The page treats evil less as doctrine than as spectacle and reflection. The cleaned transcript makes `Slight of Hand` fit its logic of misdirection and self-recognition.

Slight of Hand. Never saw wicked so good. Deep hurt of imagination lost here. Our present time — the handwritten equals sign closes it into an equation the page refuses to solve.