Page 152
By Jack Joseph Smith
after the
Loss of Beauty
Numbers
disappear;
Man it is how
You go about
finding them
again
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page turns Beauty into something countable only after it has vanished, making recovery a matter of how one searches for what is gone.
The fragment is philosophical but intimate. Once Beauty is lost, even numbers disappear, so order itself seems to break down. The last turn matters: the point is not that recovery is impossible, but that what matters is the manner of looking for what has been lost.
The fragment makes Beauty countable only in its absence - 'after the / Loss of Beauty / Numbers / disappear' - and locates meaning not in recovery itself but in 'how / You go about / finding them / again'. This reading remains provisional because the page transcript is partial/OCR-uncertain.