By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page imagines another universe of stars asking for more time, then contrasts human fighting with the heavens and with people from different places who do not believe in the world's rotation.
The handwritten insertion gives the ending a social geography: disbelief is not only abstract but attached to people `from different / places`. The page still works by scale, setting human conflict against a cosmic frame.
An untitled page that sets human conflict against a cosmic frame. A vast figure stalls catastrophe by gesture: 'Every time the other universe / of stars has went to be fallenr / alone he has waved his hand / and said give me more time.' Against that scale, 'Fighting here is nothing / to the heavens,' and human freedom seems 'So silly.' The clear handwritten insertion gives the doubt a social geography - 'There are those / from different / places / who do notbelieve / in the rot ation of / the world,' unsure 'When it started or / if it did at all.'