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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This companion page keeps the burning-bush refusal, then expands through a handwritten meditation on limitation, silver selfhood, soil, movement, and the inability to distinguish Mozart from PHEAUL.
Compared with the previous page, this one feels more crowded and unstable because the typed refusal is surrounded by a second handwritten movement. The added passage turns fear into questions of spending, limitation, silver selfhood, soil, waiting, and becoming MAN in Movement. The final Mozart/PHEAUL comparison still matters because it turns spiritual and aesthetic judgment into the same troubled act of hearing.
A companion take on the burning-bush refusal, here more crowded and unstable as a handwritten movement surrounds the typed lines. 'Standing in the Earth, / knowing real fear' opens into questions of 'spending', limitation, and 'A self of silver', then into soil 'I / tilled And knew, / And waited' and becoming 'MAN in / Movement.' It ends in collapsed categories -- 'I could Not tell the differ-/ANCE GETWEEN MOZART / AND PHEAUL' -- aesthetic and spiritual judgment fused into one troubled act of hearing. This reading remains provisional because the page is mixed quality with a partial handwritten passage the reviewer incorporated only where legible.