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This titled page stages firelight, bodily intensity, and domestic danger inside a compressed, half-ritual, half-violent interior scene.

The title gives the fragment a mock-logical frame, but the actual movement is visceral and unstable. The corrected verbs make the scene more forceful: he stuffs cedar, lights chips into a roar, slaps the pistol, and kneads blood into the floor.

Titled 'Do Mathematicus,' a half-ritual, half-violent cabin tableau. 'HE lit the Light' and 'the / fading walls glowed the shaded / yellow flickering across their / cold cracks from breathing / stove,' the parenthetical boast cutting in - '(I AM Heavenishly Alive, / And what more could A man / Ask!).' The verbs are forceful and unstable: he 'stuffed the cedar into / the grate, And lit the chips / into A roar, slapped his pistol / sideways, kneaded his blood into / the floor, And laid his case for / spice over the stove.' Firelight, body, and weapon fused in one compressed interior. This reading is provisional because the page transcript sits in the 'mixed' OCR quality band.