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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Ask begins with the way to and through God, then turns purity language into antisemitic exclusion, wandering, scourge, and killing, exposing the violent logic of religious intolerance.
The page is disturbing source material. It appears to ventriloquize fanatic logic as a danger to name, not as a doctrine to endorse.
'Ask' is disturbing source material - a dramatic monologue that ventriloquizes fanatic purity logic in order to expose it. It begins as catechism ('The way to God,' 'God must be clean / God must be as in the beginning') and warns that 'Everything from the start is not / neccessarily acceptable.' The reasoning then curdles into antisemitic exclusion: 'Jews are intolerable,' 'not permitted,' to be 'dispot / And let to wander as a sure scurage,' with the chilling close 'Or God will keep on killing.' The hateful language is preserved verbatim as manuscript text, named rather than endorsed.