Page 159

By Jack Joseph Smith

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The quarrel resolves into chant, leaving Animal and Prankster joined less by agreement than by a shared refusal of respectable order.

The repeated line about hell still needing to be raised gives the page its force. It turns argument into rough liturgy, and the two men emerge as companions in disorder even while they speak from different kinds of damage.

Claude

The quarrel resolves into chant, binding Animal and Prankster less by agreement than by shared rhythm. The page is one of the manuscript's chant-endings.