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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This closing page reduces the collection to a hard little definition, ending on distorted perception and the loss of common sense.
Because it is so brief, it lands like a final label or diagnosis. The misshapen spelling and compressed phrasing fit the page's meaning: reality itself seems slightly bent by the time the book ends.
The handwritten closing page is a four-line mock-definition under the coined title 'Proinoid': 'Aquite perception / of reality and an / abdoucence of / common sense'. The misspellings ('Aquite', 'abdoucence') are load-bearing, bending clinical diagnostic language into something slightly deranged, so the book ends on self-aware paradox -- sharp perception married to the absence of common sense -- a fitting last label for the whole collection.