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By Jack Joseph Smith

a nice visit, and bottom's up!" If he could make someone gasp just a little, it was like a beauti- ful dress for a beautiful women. It was like the successful connections people make with themselves that take no thoughts! But he had to believe that comedy was unparishable to himself, or he knew he would parish. Ordinary people loved an aristocrat face with short hair; but no shoes and a brown paper bag. He saw people say to themselves; what is in that bag that obviously has no meaning, but must be some sort of luggage. He strolled around in circles being a pleasant clown, and feeling at home with his heart for awhile. Jaugeline successfully tuned the blueness of her eyes out of distain, as she saw her former lover coming toward her in his dressy robe. Quickly she changed her mind from hating herself for having this urge to come her almost in quarter sections through the years. "Hello Jaugeline." "Hello," she replied; insisting upon herself, that she would not get trapped in bull shit talk was the manner of the phrase to stop indulgence came clear. "You look well."

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GPT

Animal's clowning becomes a survival ethic, while Jaugeline's response shows attraction, self-defense, and old intimacy reappearing between them.

The page makes comedy feel necessary rather than decorative. Animal needs his role in order not to collapse, and Jaugeline's effort not to be pulled back into old patterns gives their brief exchange real emotional resistance.

Claude

Animal's clowning is given as theology of survival: making someone 'gasp just a little' is 'like the successful connections people make with themselves', and he 'had to believe that comedy was unparishable to himself, or he knew he would parish'. He plays 'an aristocrat face with short hair; but no shoes and a brown paper bag', a 'pleasant clown' at home 'with his heart for awhile'. The page then pivots to Jaugeline, who tunes 'the blueness of her eyes out of distain' as her 'former lover' approaches 'in his dressy robe' - greeting him while bracing not 'to get trapped in bull shit talk'. Love and weariness arrive in the same breath.