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By Jack Joseph Smith

82 L ya jE vont across the street, Avoided the stoplight, : and° continued; Therein the dark down. by the -seas There “he laughed at: his-ghest, .and decided not’ to runj’ He turned’ walking into neon, The glaze-was like muclar Rio De-Janeres. The -coming morning when the sun breke, A crazy clear, Gray cement, blue sky’ Later as: he watked toward the-city another glaze was appearing at its- ceiling and then falling as-yellow dust. Strange sky, The -cement new and ther, beth of street: and’ dwelling, pillars: and factories: electistronic, an coler red’, a-color. of oranges The evening; walking back over the last. hump: of” street te the beach; A red sum also a browm orange ; of” sand and’ inspecting light;' He watched the big ball go down, watched the intensity of it spread nature-at the-end ef the crumbling sound ef Les “ Angeles?’ THe -sun was: going extreamly fast, and’ it ee sank; He turned and went: bask up over the hump ag=- é aim to:visit! O'Mahomie! ss! The ‘Cornel sat at the last. tahle te the far right ef the~bar as: Animal’ entered; Leoking up he smiled, and Animal alse broadly, He rem cognized an excellent’ position of matter in tine with liis-omr space when he-saw: ones’ 8yeit, the Animal," said’ the Cornel,’ ‘ =. , geet

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The page treats Los Angeles as a changing glaze of colour and surface before returning Animal to the bar, where companionship and local ritual offer a temporary center.

City, beach, dust, sunset, and barroom greeting all belong to the same emotional weather. Animal moves through spectacle without fully trusting it, but recognition from Colonel still registers as a real form of belonging.


Claude

Los Angeles is rendered as a changing glaze of color and surface before returning Animal to the tavern. The page uses weather to mark a mood shift.