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By Jack Joseph Smith

Jiven Joe shook the hand of the man in black saying, "a fellow sure can get close to an en- emy the first time he meets him outside of the lock of battles" Joe smiled and gestured toward Animal; "Actually Animal is a right winged Cap- italist." "But you were speaking for yourself, were you not?" "Highly deadly black Tarantula" Joe sang for the second solely with his tongue. "It's just the memory of the saints; that makes Jiven Joe question your style," said Animal; "God Bless America. I mean how could we develope an in- tellectual curiosity, if there was no one but God to blame for death." He laughed with his cheeks on a direct line out from his nostrols. (Ha, ha, ha) seemed a stupid sound to the French Canadian, but he recognized a forbidden explanation of reason in Animals electric face, or else he might have left directly. "You don't sound like you Love-It Or Leave-It very much," replied Montreal, with his mouth wide too, but tight. "I'm just explaining: Ya can get a job from a car- petbagger around this beach. But the rich have no

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The man from Montreal turns the room from loose banter into sharper ideological theatre, where jokes about capitalism, America, God, and class test everyone's 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 and class grievance.

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Joe greets the stranger with a fighter's courtesy - 'a fellow sure can get close to an enemy the first time he meets him outside of the lock of battles' - and teasingly brands 'Animal is a right winged Capitalist,' then scats 'Highly deadly black Tarantula' 'solely with his tongue.' Animal's riff, 'how could we develope an intellectual curiosity, if there was no one but God to blame for death,' lands as 'a stupid sound' to the 'French Canadian,' yet he reads 'a forbidden explanation of reason in Animals electric face' and stays. Montreal's dry 'You don't sound like you Love-It Or Leave-It very much,' 'his mouth wide too, but tight,' marks the visible gear-shift from banter to ideological probing, each man's style now under test.