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By Jack Joseph Smith

Marie's eyes had fer that instant beceme the gray blue of survival; as if some clash with suffering had cast’ a perminant badly formed” picsture-en her brain long befere the question— q was asked, It was unusual to Animal's watching, for her reply had seemed'as a warm family joke his own life had missed, "Civilization Maries maybe we are weighing your own part in civilization?" "Guilts, fears, drudgery and wender," she replied to her ceunterpart quietly, -.»./ - if TO animal; Joe and Jaqueline ét-the air hang : aa iy ay, be,’ r hoping it te th ibility of misohiet cur te Rowe ay “Hep se: whe poss le res coud ste fbragt . . \ pfontreal) extended his hand and flipped it J 24-:.' LOPE © OBS tees forges dagsticoe At or af open saying, "here-at least is guilt, fear, Catt cad chp lel WAY a drudgery. New-how-can they be wonder, as sp ) bg di te 6 with ie {FT ney rest upon the largest bones of your per= Phe pos oe DPT ES thew sonality?" } "My hip bene is the largest bone of my’ per~ lityy" Marie stateds . . sonny ; Be ‘yoke tot L Ahos Va even bef be S/ At ray "Well, we can't put it theres So let us consintrate 9;, jofm The x > Hote Boe waole! SH AUF HO omweonder, De you see or feel now more of what ia- day np OOCE pale ey ehcyett shoulders?" ‘ ub 2 "Wonder is wenderful, but certainly I will see whet-I-feel’ no matter how uuch this sensation fer-

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Marie answers questions about civilization, guilt, fear, drudgery, and wonder with a cool survival intelligence.

The page is conversational, but it is really about what kinds of feeling a civilized life permits. Marie's tone suggests that wonder survives only by moving through the body's burdens rather than escaping them.


Claude

Marie answers questions about civilization, guilt, fear, drudgery, and wonder with cool survival intelligence. The page is her long voice uninterrupted.