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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Taste, tables, sea-money, memory, and self-promotion are threaded together in a discussion about judgment and construction.
The page reads like bar philosophy trying to become a theory of character. Mouth, palate, bridges, seas, and archetypes all suggest that social bearing is something built, inhabited, and tested. The page also keeps returning to rhythm: pause, motion, balance, and judgement.
Animal bites the crust until 'his palit became tender' and feels himself 'stilled seperate, yet the fancy of what was but a street proposition' draws him 'into them as well as into the city'. The 'diningdrinkingroom' pauses on Jacob's line 'I have been at peaceful moments without imagin-ation', and the page renders the father's chess-mind as 'delicate war' - 'The calculated moves of the past be-coming ecstasy', knowing 'the sound in an adversary's mind when fingers would capture balance'. Jacob probes - 'do you have judgement?' - and Blankname affirms construction as his 'manner', declaring 'every-' man's wish to build.