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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This shorter women-list keeps the same honoring impulse, compressing a circle of remembered figures into a bare sequence of intellect, work, friendship, judgment, warning, and loss.
Because the page is more compressed than the longer list, each attribute lands more like a title than a description. The effect is not narrative but commemorative, as if the speaker wants to preserve distinct forms of presence before they blur together. Even in its rough state, the page reads as a record of esteem rather than a poem of conflict.
A shorter variant of the women-list, cleaner and less emphatic, closing with a single surname Kernan instead of a line. The preserved misspelling intelect at the top keeps the page honest about its revision status — this is a draft of a list, not the list itself.