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This title page names the work bluntly and sets up the strange companionship between the speaker and Animal III.

As a title page it does not interpret yet, but it establishes the book's hybrid feeling at once: beach setting, figure-study, and a relationship to an alter ego or companion named Animal III.

The bare title page sets the title 'ON THE BEACH' against the companion 'with AnimaL III', announcing the book as a shared excursion with this Animal figure.