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By Jack Joseph Smith

74 i] } Meanwhile Animal was peaking, ne squinting at avheadline ef the Wall Street Journel, The faces ef the Meniea Hetel Bar had new reached there distilling point. It was toward the late of the afternoon, The males at the bar were like one none defienting flesh who peed, all and only, a dark yellow. "The cost of living index," Animal’ said to no ene, not even himself inpartieular, with hie . mouth and voice cracked, SWhat's that Antoni?" was a questien from a Lak . - heavy man, whe really wanted te peer areund, but was afraid too Give every man a chance to see whet people Sea AMUEYO? Lee “/ (we LE Said Animal, “one thing about Sem Yerdy is that he cresses every: bridge he can think of before he comes: te once” ®nere were uen in the bar that were pleased that Animal’ was reading the Wall Street Journel, and in Los Angeles: at’ thatooe Retained Animal, “the cost of living index is the soul’ ef man's protection from himself, but the LeA, tines sports sectiom is quite anether . ° is L 65k fen Le

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GPT

Back in the hotel bar, Animal turns the newspaper into barroom prophecy, mocking economic language while exposing the anxious masculinity around him.

The comedy here is social and performative. Animal speaks half to provoke, half to reveal, and the men in the bar are measured by how much they want to look without being seen looking.


Claude

Animal turns the newspaper into barroom prophecy, mocking economic language while making it sound almost scriptural. The page is a stand-up set delivered over drinks.