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By Jack Joseph Smith

THE GREATEST IMAGE in rhetoric is the single MAN AGAINST HIS HORIZON, SEEKING HIS DESTINY- Film Maker, John Grierson Accent to the lone place knew the cold planets dust That feathers the heavens into still unwinded streams: She the lost ship voyaged the skys seas: Strong hulled and tight tacked away from the labyrinth The Captain mastered the crew of his own soul And his mind had the face of the ancient white goats head Their in the universe the Earth is deep Even its steel, even its iron, even its chemical Can not cover what the total ending understands without remembering Is the Earths mad continuum with what is lush Yet the animal-man determined himself to be reveiled to the Zenith Through the burning dark and the cold bright. He would go off the contour of life Until his song be seen by the way of man Through man's beginning Earth, Fire, Water, and Harnessed Power.

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The page joins a handwritten note on heroic rhetoric to a ship-of-soul passage about Earth, metal, zenith, and a voyage through burning dark and cold bright.

The governing image is a soul-directed expedition. The ship, captain, crew, Earth, and Harnessed Power turn seafaring and spiritual ascent into one act of self-mastery, while the Grierson note frames the whole movement as an image of a single person set against a horizon.

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A handwritten epigraph from filmmaker John Grierson - 'THE GREATEST IMAGE in rhetoric is the single MAN AGAINST HIS HORIZON, SEEKING HIS DESTINY' - sets up a ship-of-soul lyric where 'the Captain mastered the crew of his own soul' and 'his mind had the face of the ancient white goats head.' The 'animal-man determined himself to be reveiled to the Zenith / Through the burning dark and the cold bright,' going 'off the contour of life / Until his song be seen by the way of man.' It closes on the recurring formula 'Earth, Fire, Water, and Harnessed Power,' the page's spelling ('skys,' 'reveiled,' 'Earths') left as written.