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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page links the girl, sword, glass, moons, infancy, battle, order, and God's change into a fragile argument about perception.
The scan-reviewed line `NO blurred to perception as battle` makes the handwritten correction part of the page's thought, not a side note. Infancy is not just innocence here; it is a huge sound and a careful sight set against order, separation, and the recognition that God is change.
'Infant and Ther' makes infancy a strange theology of perception. It opens on a girl's hard image - 'Listen to the sword of the girl / in the glass until two breaking' - and visions 'in all five Moons.' By six she 'seperate herself for the Sun / in order to ignore you.' The infant's senses are absolute: sound 'is huge,' sight 'as careful,' with the handwritten correction 'NO blurred to perception as battle.' Movement 'appears quick / because it is what you don't want,' and the page ends by undercutting human order: 'You think you know order / They still recognize / that God is change.'