By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This fragment turns Blankname into a visual performance figure, all motion, balcony space, and theatrical body language, before money enters the scene.
Even in a few lines, the page presents movement as spectacle. The image of the body crossing fourth-story windows like a bug makes the scene feel precarious and stylized at once, while Animal's offer of money shifts the atmosphere from performance into transaction.
A short closing fragment: Blankname completes his thought that 'every-man would like to build beyond doubt', then the page flashes back to his body in motion - 'danced with his black tennis shoes, and soft gray cloth clothes, along balcony's inbraces', having 'gripped glass, and moved across it like a huge bug in fourth story spaces'. The scene resolves the long table negotiation in one understated line: 'And Animal offered him the money...'