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By Jack Joseph Smith

i Whole frame the sun stood still on Animal the Third. Whispering summer wind touched slight as on the brink listening to the sea in murmur taking his body and he roses Into the dew “swam the rayed ‘light, Though there-was direct ' heat: removing water; when going beneath, mouth up to-sand ‘or soil; plants: made mist into a survival for-hims' At his core was not the abandon= ment of life, nor was being like the outer reaches of lonely worlds. “me feeling takea thie Animal through the Earth and out the other side," he murmured, Yet Earth, Fires and Water, would completely re= turn him to Harnessed Power. He stretched his tongue to touch his ears with, “accent to the lone place knows the last planeta dust!® And again, “The Animal was born and raised to know that leaping into thought has consquences}" No need to get far fetched about Animal, "Blood and Skin change where the heavents streams are in rapide of blue burning wind! And only men in animal form have voyaged the sky's seas," he laughed, With the exception of the Eagle, he was humored, NcAndéscéhnt Choon Ab ow/hg Moon | Th pos Ture af kreal petlor s N wil gers A SENS

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Animal the Third appears here as an ecstatic elemental figure, held in sun and sea while speaking himself into a myth of power, survival, and cosmic belonging.

The page treats the body as both exposed and empowered. Earth, fire, water, planets, and blood all run together so that Animal becomes less a character than a charged state of being, half human, half visionary emblem.

Claude

Animal the Third is introduced in lyric close-up — sun standing still on him, summer wind, dew, the body absorbing plants as mist for survival. The page establishes Animal as a figure who stretches his tongue to touch his ears and laughs that only men in animal form have voyaged the sky's seas, except the Eagle.