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By Jack Joseph Smith

"Hey John Donne, where have you been?" A young lady has just yelled during her working in an immence garden where she is plucking the last of the fall squash. She is golden and proud, and her name is Jo. Our viewpoint has to stop from running over them now, Getting back to the ground is slow. On our way with wideness in the eye we have encountered a Basque house from the eighteen hundreds, old farm mach- inery obviously not in use, trucks and vans, old autos, and new cars that are strange to the setting. Yet the sounds of knowledge haven't left us;; for the hound dogs, the sheep dogs, a coyote, and exactly two Saint Bernard dogs are upset as John says, "Jo; put whoever won't listen on the chain." We can do any angle we want, when Jo and John meet in the garden. "Where's the Beef?" "Run off;, I'm pissed." Now we track like earning a living.

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A young woman named Jo calls out "Hey John Donne" while working in an immense garden, and the viewpoint descends past a Basque house, old machinery, vehicles, dogs, and a charged meeting with John.

The page mixes literary address with rural garden labor and film-direction language. The comic strangeness of calling out to Donne in this setting gives way to a concrete camera movement through the property's animals, machinery, and domestic tension.

Claude

The viewpoint slows from running to ground level, passing a Basque house, farm machinery, trucks, and new cars strange to the setting, while hound dogs and sheep dogs react to the arrival.

This page functions as a cinema re-entry sequence - the camera descending from wide to personal. The detail of exactly two Saint Bernard dogs has the precision of a remembered fact rather than a fictional invention. The instruction 'we can do any angle we want' when Jo and John meet is also a statement about the manuscript's freedom - the story is aware of its own viewpoint.