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This short draft repeats perfection, ringing, song, writing home, dreamlessness, void, and the speaker's claim of being at their best.

The corrected transcript clarifies the page as a spare variant in the same image sequence. Its uniform spacing and uncluttered lines make the repeated claims feel declarative, while the odd final spelling keeps the page tied to the physical typescript.

A pared-down variant of the facing 'Hand Of The Gun' page, the same images cut to bone: 'All is perfect / No death on the ridge / All is well,' the ring that 'is not a bell,' the singing and 'writing home,' then 'It is gone now.' The stutter survives the trimming - 'And it it it / is not a dream' - and the close repeats the boast in raw typescript, 'I'm the best / I8ve ever beem' (sic). The mistyped final line keeps the declaration anchored to the physical machine that produced it, less polished than its neighbor and more declarative for it.