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By Jack Joseph Smith

often than realistic ones. Like the difference be- tween an awareness of seconds and minutes. Like the loop of whirl when the sky should swirl. But it did not from the vibration off the streets in inclanit- ation to remark about the impossibility of excape. But their hands were cupped and swinging from the stroll. He like on wishes. She letting her pointed toes sink in the sand. "I've never had a notion." "What was that?" he inquired. "Oh nothing," she replied laughing with her eyes rolled back. She continued to think unto herself as she was listening to what he called, "a reminder of the Dead Sea," She consoled beginning ever again with her waist exact to the ends of her toes as a sea rushed to her slightly it was of course true. Not a slaming like story; only that the smothered belonging of her toes uncovered with a thwart of sand in step could not keep her mind from the penitence it took to keep her life away from what it took to accept him. Jiven Joe had just gotten off the phone. He went to the door and opened it for breeze. Through the gate walked Jauqeline and Animal. He went right into

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GPT

Jauqeline's inner penitence and the gentle beach stroll are interrupted by arrival at Jiven Joe's place, where another charged social stage opens.

The page is especially good at showing two realities at once: the softness of the walk and the stubborn burden Jauqeline still carries inside it. That unfinished inward struggle is what makes the sudden turn into Joe's world feel earned instead of abrupt.

Claude

The stroll stays interior and unsteady, hands 'cupped and swinging', he 'like on wishes', she letting 'her pointed toes sink in the sand'. Her half-confession - 'I've never had a notion' - she withdraws with a laugh, eyes 'rolled back', while he calls the sea 'a reminder of the Dead Sea'. Even as the water rushes to her toes she cannot escape 'the penitence it took to keep her life away from what it took to accept him' - intimacy weighed against the cost of surrender. Then the reverie breaks as 'Jiven Joe had just gotten off the phone' and opens his door, and 'through the gate walked Jauqeline and Animal'.