Page 348
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Journey returns to the Heaven/Earth argument, setting the suffering of peace and the horror of violence in God's eyes before moving through America, windows, television, belief, animals, humans, and going someplace.
The repetition shows how central this ethical vision is to the manuscript. The handwritten 'or the other again' sharpens the page's logic of interchangeable views and choices.
'Journey' is a tighter restatement of the previous page's ethics: you cannot 'go to Heaven / Until the impossible is done,' and 'The suffering of peace' and 'The horror of violence' are 'Not so much different / Itself in God's eyes.' Where one rises, 'the other is / replaced in America.' The handwritten insertion 'or the other again' sharpens the logic of interchangeable views - 'Through a window or a television' - closing on the belief 'that animals and humans, / are going someplace...'