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By Jack Joseph Smith

Lb¢ Jiven Joe-sheok the hand of the man in black saying, "a fellow ‘sure can get clése-to am en- | euythe firet time-he meets him outside -of the | leck of battles" Joe smiled and ‘gestured’ toward’ Animal, "Actually: Animal is a right winged Cape . italiet." | "But you were speaking for yourself, were you not?" | "Highly deadly- black Tarantula" Joe-sang for: [the second selely with his tenques : ' Wttl just: the memory: of the saints, that’ makes: ' Jiven Joe questiem your style," said Animal, "aéd° Bless sAmerica, I meam how could we-develope:an in- ftelleotual’ curiosity, if there -was::no one but Ged" to blame-for death," He laughed with his cheeks on a direct line out from his nostrolss | (Hel hay ha) seemed'a stupid ‘sound ‘te the French Canadian, but he recognized a forbidden explanation of reason im Animals electric face, or elsevhe might have left direetly, | "You don't sound like you: Leve>It Or Leave-It very much" replied Montreal, with hie mouth widé tee, but tight. "T'in just explainings Ya can get a job from a-car= pettagger around ‘this beadiiy But) the rich have-no | if

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The arrival of the man from Montreal turns the room from loose social banter into a sharper ideological contest about money, blame, and style.

Animal and Joe greet him through wit and role-play, but the page is really about testing authority. Montreal's seriousness pressures the room into a different kind of speech, where jokes start brushing against doctrine.

Claude

The man from Montreal turns the room from loose social banter into sharper ideological attention. The page is a visible gear-shift.