By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
"Hatered" rejects grand apocalyptic combat and locates evil instead in the smug, self-loving look that makes the hand and mind move as fast as they can.
The page's most unsettling move is its refusal of spectacle. There are no heroic swords in the clouds here, only the expression of someone delighted with himself. That shift makes hatred feel immediate and practical, something answered not with theology but with reflex.
'Hatered' refuses apocalyptic spectacle - it 'isn't dancing with the devel,' nor 'Michael the Ark Angel / and Lucifer at grips with swords / in the clouds' - and locates evil instead in an expression: 'that awful look where / Saten is just stuck on himself.' That smug self-love is what triggers reflex, the page ending where 'the hand and the mind / are as fast as they can be,' so hatred is answered not by theology but by speed.