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A practical image of a tilted pan becomes a precise note about arrangement, balance, and placement.

Even as plain instruction, the sentence has a compositional quality. It shows the manuscript's interest in how elements sort themselves across weight, curve, and angle.

A five-line procedural miniature: he 'would take a pan and hold it up in the air like / thus, and make it tilted' until gravity sorts the contents - 'the leaves of it / were on the bottom, the seeds in the middle of one / side, and on top around the curve were the / stems.' Pure attention to a small, practiced gesture; the cleaning of marijuana rendered with a craftsman's exactness and no comment.