Page 165
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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Jaugeline rejects the monk's polished language of wandering and gift, then leaves toward Animal as the scene shifts from spiritual decor into Jiven Joe's beach-shack world.
Her bitterness is treated as clarity rather than a defect. The page contrasts institutional calm, expensive taste, and spiritual vocabulary with her desire to get back to a rougher field of action, then pivots into Jiven Joe's more practical and weathered life.
Jaugeline, with the 'monk father of her son', feels her 'face frozen' as he glosses her book - 'SANNYASIN my dear. It is of the wanderers' - and she throws his serenity back at him: this place 'should be in the mountains' where 'the cold could still your mind to the lonliness of human beings'. He answers that no road 'remove bitterness from your soul Jaugeline', and she walks off rejecting 'the $1.25 fee to do it over a French antique desk', refusing even his offered 'gift'. The page closes by handing the narrative to a new figure, 'Jiven Joe', returning 'to his beach shack' in 'an old model European, and red fading sportscar'.