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By Jack Joseph Smith

Infint Infint is a sound Until two The taking of sight Movement is as slow as the grace of a twig on a high limb Knowledge and courage are complete It iis just that the wide eye is the stretch im the bark Never does the infant not know As much as adult know im death That is the script That is why the middle of life never lasts Through the truth And that is why the beginning and the end don't care....

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This `Infint` page treats infancy as a form of sound, sight, and knowledge that already touches death and truth.

The scan-reviewed text keeps the page's odd source spellings and the handwritten insertion `Through the truth`, which makes the middle of life feel corrected or interrupted by a later insistence. The page turns infant perception into a kind of primal knowledge that the beginning and end already share.

Claude

''''Infant' proper. Infant as a sound, taking of sight, movement as slow as 'the grace of a twig on a high limb.' The wide eye as 'the stretch in the bark.' Infant knowledge equated with death-knowledge; 'the middle of life' erased.'''