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By Jack Joseph Smith

. /3l en-his smiles Jauqeline: caught a glimpse-of Animali crossing the narrew bridge to leavey and hurriedly went on: speak= ing with this menk father of her ‘sens! She thought’, as che was :anawering lier abeut the book she had ‘picked ‘ups (Myface feels: frozen with him, buti the windéw panes give eff not the picturesque ‘quality from frost and snow) "the-book is ~pronounced: SANNYASIN my deans’ It is -of the wanderers" “hig place should be in the mountains," she said 'te hint, "where -at' least the cold ‘could still your: mind ite the lenlyness:of human beingss that don'+ haves flowers: : and ‘feed laid at.their fects" "Whateverr read‘ you travel’ certainly dees not. remove: . bitterness from your ‘soul’ Jaugelines" "Well) Tithing I'LL wander news and*forgeti about the~ $1225 fee to do-it over-a Frenotn amtique-deske* “But Jaugelimey it’ would ‘have beem angift," he was: saying as:she passed’ out through the door to imtereept Sveset Wied P Animal'a% a-path leading te the reads Time-was-cressing out ef the afternoon that day, as- Jiven Jee returned ‘to lia beach shack, He drove an old model’ Eurepean, .and ‘red fading sportscar up onto Hart street, found a place, parked and ‘went walking down the walk to his home, His was ene ef a block ef shacks: :

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Jaugeline rejects the monk's polished vocabulary of wandering and gift, choosing instead to cut back toward Animal and the rougher world outside the center.

Her bitterness is the point, not a flaw in the scene. The page makes institutional detachment feel decorative and expensive, whereas her motion toward the road suggests a harsher but more honest field of choice.


Claude

Jaugeline rejects the monk's polished vocabulary of wandering and gift, cutting back to practical demand. The page is her in principled refusal mode.