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By Jack Joseph Smith

§ 84 1 tight’ macroscopic dream turned: macroceamia, The wakls were white, and ‘the paintings: now more red WW i th U Fi ey) J "than evermere entitled Bie was walking, and’ the than Ah caoeam wh de garlic: was-smelling with the mist creem coler of 7 . Strives of the cheese, when she took her free hand and wiped Ad v Fo al bewerys her-up finger acroos“her nese knocking the fashioned dust: beneath the ladt' line of her loose cottoned bosons ° Blankname watched’ Antal breathings quite certain that he wae doing tricks:with his nostrols, and then he-spoke to hin, "Animal, I will take right now ‘the bedy around’ any. soul but. Iam not: capable of taking directly from the soul, Nothing Te Be Afraid OF is a: name that can laugh; Ivhave no intention to cheeti yous A place I build, that I cam not leave? What do you ‘hink? ALL lies must be digtroyed or: run ewey frome| : You certainly unlerstand that, So at this moment. we ‘ must refer directly: te this: propesition as anatter of fact that puts: dishonesty: aaidies" Animal took a piece of garlic from the plate; .and placed the shredded clove ef it upem his.tounge She ee oniled seated nowy and then raised’ wine with. hii bef He then tock ef the white cheese, and bit ef the , crust. from its: mfolding ends

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GPT

Blankname brings the dream of the place back to hard terms, insisting that any partnership has to begin with directness rather than romantic drift.

The garlic, cheese, dust, paintings, and bodies keep the scene tactile even as the discussion turns moral. What matters most is that Blankname tries to strip illusion away without killing desire entirely, which gives the proposal its tension.

Claude

Blankname brings the dream back to hard terms, insisting any partnership has to be grounded. The page is the adult counterweight to Animal's drift.