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By Jack Joseph Smith

on alley wind pushing down into the city from the sea. "And what of you?" asked Montreal. "What do you intend to do next with your life?" "To take Jauqeline to Hawaii; for us to be marr- ied?" "Don't you think your mind is to much of a riddle to be married?" "I will bring her back to this puzzle; which I understand:" "Why take her to nature; only to return to a city where life is governed by an electronic screen?" "I see the beauty in her bones; The trickster image sees only the clothes and the fashionable layer of pancake; and we will walk in disguises." "Impossible!" "Wrong. To be uncaring about money to make of see movies is such a simple isolation from the madness; that we will never be discovered to be seperated?" "Pardon me, but why drag the lady Jauqueline into burying your father's heritage at the seat of the worlds most aristocratic disqust?" "Because she understands scorn, and she was born here;"

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Animal defends taking Jauqeline to Hawaii and back, casting marriage as a shared riddle of nature, the city, money, disguise, and aristocratic disgust.

The page treats marriage less as domestic settlement than as an aesthetic and social wager. His language about bones, clothes, screens, pancake, and disguises makes love inseparable from class performance and from his chosen refusal to be discovered by ordinary social rules.

Claude

Montreal probes Animal's plan to take Jauqeline 'to Hawaii; for us to be married,' needling that his 'mind is to much of a riddle to be married' and asking why drag her 'to nature; only to return to a city where life is governed by an electronic screen.' Animal's defense is aesthetic and class-coded: 'I see the beauty in her bones; The trickster image sees only the clothes and the fashionable layer of pancake; and we will walk in disguises,' insisting their refusal to be 'uncaring about money' will keep them 'never... discovered to be seperated.' Montreal sharpens it to the wound - why drag her into 'burying your father's heritage at the seat of the worlds most aristocratic disqust' - and Animal answers with the page's key line: 'Because she understands scorn, and she was born here.' The marriage is staged as a shared wager against class and visibility rather than domestic settlement.