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The restored title frames the fragment as an approach toward the heroic, while the body resists full identification: it is not that, but the speaker insists the addressee knows what it is.

The page is minimal but forceful. Its scan-confirmed two-line title and stark body make it feel like an argument or correction delivered at close range, where recognition matters more than polish.

Under the title 'Getting Close / to Heroic', the body refuses to define its object - 'IT is Not / that, but You / Know what / it is' - betting entirely on shared, unstated recognition. The heroic stays nameless, gestured at rather than described, so the poem enacts the approach its title promises without ever arriving. This reading remains provisional because the page transcript is partial and OCR-uncertain on the short handwritten lines.