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By Jack Joseph Smith

8 LoS ed THe-stream ‘4% ones Hé-Lingeres with the gentleness: of a-kites Breezecand'pusi, ant’ skirted with just. a hand in front. of lif measuring: and! feeling the- wind, , as tees would’ feel! am incorectnese against: a-stones: That high feeling of being bownt! out: tes,, just like all) those-thitge one believes ini’. It was: goad’ ton be - 4 plo yr , att esis out om his-way- wit nature: around did’ malte - heppye Buy for youth, se much Va AG nenory}:, 50: close to birth ed eee things: of life-ttgt still only happens onces’.Greem and’ growth tel meliitg soft. thie-tiage- stiaped,, Byt them lie: mind) agent?” cut! inton the-foreet floor Heine. rugged with —— animall fur, .THe- design ef seme-of" hia: thoughts: tHeopact: shot Back eut to Him was not necessarily per> plexings, but. wae becoming: 1 singly astonishings. YS: lier liad! a.sense- of” MABE the. good, som, and im this: sensation fantasy vellied' sometines: with fears. At timee he -woultl’ bee aurefontedly im fantasy ani’ naturally leughir ing’, Bart: them woulll’ seep Back: Hint mint governed te a se Gallled’ neseesary bellef of plunter being accomplish white-mans: soni! comerfrom rositds, ( and’ hee laughed! thier Tier stones: rallied water’. Mast. of the: time: le: was: bound! te think, but pin péint cirele turn of water, er-maver . eS peta Se cs ape eee jem teliing: phacs} would’ flash hite into peases! He would feel absolutely there, .and whem hee returned te whnt: hie votes: called waking or a eke enough Was a threat: of” Hatred’ ready; to eLasin the miricall of 4+ poehisten)<— elirayas "ge olf, Timea peoples liad! seem andi thought: this axl ng elzes Coat aniog about gouem through the-projested picture off ismegitationes *Not Knowing: whet. your dding lac a-erdize:- om eartin, .you knowg I'don! t: know what Iam ddings'. I'ese structures: that were-bullt: te step stares Ard) I ‘inow that: thle dooe net) exists Very: confusings Hiatal, Itjust. dom! t think \ anytiing com outlast the-Universes'. Tinemenber now that -V itt its past, .and’ baek behind the: preliiztorics Asc the sbi \ sidived jeater IThave ranbledy, Neb im whet im seid to be Nig CSttneekt way, Butt im other ways: Iising very maciy ant » ering Itieve-forgottem coming, to the-desiediom of going

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page sets natural attention against fantasy and social programming, showing Animal caught between immediate sensation and inherited mental structures.

The strongest contrast here is between tactile presence and imposed belief. Wind, stone, water, youth, and growth offer one way of being, while the mind keeps pulling him back toward performance, fear, and white social order.


Claude

Animal in nature is set against Animal in thought — the stream, the kite-gentle wind, the forest floor of animal fur compared with the inherited mental furniture of plunder, whiteman's son, and pin-point circles that flash him into peace. The page treats attention itself as the contested territory between sensation and programming.