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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page turns perception into a kind of spiritual pressure, moving from earth and woods into desire, sex, memory, and the need for family or belonging.
The prose is lush but unstable, carrying natural imagery into bodily longing and then into a bleak philosophy of function and isolation. The added marginal notes, especially breathing and berries, sharpen the page's attention to bodily life and the fruit imagery that interrupts the abstract meditation.
Perception becomes spiritual pressure as he tongues a 'redwood or sequoia' limb and faces 'the sun's seeming supremacy', then the ghost of Eve whispers and desire bends toward 'other eyes', memory, and the sense that 'only boat was worth dying for' and 'for that one needed a family.'