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By Jack Joseph Smith

THE LAST AMERICAN CITY- third section XI - chapter To start with where the characters are now in life at the beginning of this book, and go back to birth. To slowly unravel the memory of them to the first, yet now last thing or thought in their minds: The Porteguese Englishmen The Thrill of the Dance and After Simone Le Gree Subterranean Life in Western Algers David Learry The thrill of the Dance and After Levi Kingston Subterranean Life in Western Algers

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This page works as a chapter-outline note for 'The Last American City,' setting out a backward-moving structure and naming character strands to follow.

It feels like planning material rather than finished prose. Even so, it clarifies the intended architecture: begin late in the characters' lives and unravel memory back toward birth.

Claude

Structural note - THE LAST AMERICAN CITY Third section, XI chapter - plan to start with characters as they are now and go back to birth, slowly unraveling to the first yet now last thing in their minds. Then a table pairing Portuguese Englishmen, Simone Le Gree, David Leary, Levi Kingston with the two rotating section headings Thrill of the Dance and After and Subterranean Life in Western Algers. Book-architecture page.