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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page follows a walker through used cars, bars, night flatness, a Corn Beef sign, Shakespeare in Chicago, and a car speaker's muffled promise of women and food.
Its city is a marketplace of appetite and self-recognition. The corrected transcript sharpens the page's motion from imagined spending and assembly into the final image of a stranger who remembers himself.
Used-car-lot interior monologue - if there were only bars and car lots (he hoped for a new one) to spend in, then to be among is to assure oneself in the mist of the flat spaced along night time. Corn Beef sign, reality is Shakespeare in Chicago, muttoned women's saviour voices out of a good car speaker. Walks on as a stranger who remembers himself.