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By Jack Joseph Smith

BOOKS I. THE LAST AMERICAN CITY II. BEFORE THE ROAD IN PITTSBURGH POLAND III. UP THE COAST WITH THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY GHOST IV. SWEET THROUGH THE NORTH V. THE PLAY IS THE THING VI. DANCING FOR THE DANCERS WHERE MEXICO IS VII. ANCIENT TO MODERN SCHOOLING ON ISLAND AND SEA VIII. FROM HOT SPRINGS TO INSTITUTE: OR HOW I WATCHED THE TEN YEARS OF COUNTERCULTURES LAST ONE SEMESTER IX. THE POVERTY PROGRAM INTRUSION X. SAINT SIMONE XI. BETTING THE FARM XII. INSANITY RUN ME NEAR YOU XIII. AND THE CHILDREN CAME & WENT XIIII. IT IS A LONG WAY BACK TO A FORIGN MASTER XV. SURVIVING IN THE MOUTH OF EDEN THE TEETH OF EDEN XVI. (INTRODUCING THE TEACHER)

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This page treats the project as a shelf of possible books or major movements, turning the notebook into a broader literary architecture of journeys, poverty, sainthood, breakdown, and Eden.

What stands out is the scale of the planning. Instead of listing scenes inside one contained narrative, the page imagines a sequence of book-length directions, from Pittsburgh and Mexico to institute life, counterculture, and the mouth of Eden. It feels like a writer testing how large the world of `Animal` could become.

Claude

BOOKS — a shelf of sixteen proposed volumes running from The Last American City and Pittsburgh Poland through Up the Coast with Father/Son/Holy Ghost, Saint Simone, Betting the Farm, Insanity Run Me Near You, and on to Surviving in the Mouth of Eden / The Teeth of Eden / Introducing the Teacher. The notebook treats Animal not as one book but as a library, with Pittsburgh at one end and Eden at the other.