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By Jack Joseph Smith

The Shadow (Uper ws ach I have never seen 2 dead sholdier / / but T have know alot of heartbrocken warriors L 5A d z. diel The Holy:Ghost is a native son L-4 pis / The Holy Ghost has seer everyone th Wo THEN Le ght Rapped up inside B kd A IF Against the will The Holy Ghost says ye th! 0 P! “that is not why I am here” _ poet GEEK That's not real N There are no pardon's VEr ( } ro (2 for: suffering is for the good put it selective is you have to do something wrong first anything after that dosen’t work

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The Shadow shifts from dead soldiers to heartbroken warriors, casting the Holy Ghost as a native witness who rejects suffering as virtue and strips pardon down to prior wrongdoing.

The distinction between dead soldiers and heartbroken warriors matters because it moves attention from public sacrifice to inward damage. Calling the Holy Ghost a native son makes the spirit local, rough, and socially entangled rather than remote. The closing logic is severe: once harm has been done, suffering does not cleanse it, and pardon cannot be manufactured afterward.

Claude

'The Shadow' returns: never saw a dead soldier but knew many heartbroken warriors; the Holy Ghost as native son who has seen everyone wrapped up inside against the will. 'That's not real / There are no pardons; suffering is for the good but it is selective — you have to do something wrong first.'