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By Jack Joseph Smith

/7¢ on alley wind pushing dowm into the-city from the: seas. “and what of you?" asked Mortreai, "What do you intend to do next with your life?* "To take Jaugeline to Hawaii, for usto becmarr= i ied" "Don't you think your mind is to much of a:riddle= to be married?" "T will bring her back to this puzzles which I* understands" "Why take her to naturey only to return to a city where-life-is governed by an electronic screen?" "T gee-the beauty in her bonegg’ The trickster image -sees.:only the clothes: and the-fashionable: layer of pancakeg and we-will walk im diaguises" " Imposaibles" “Wrongs To be uncaring about moneyto make-og* see-movies: is-such a-simple-isolatiom from the: madnesss that we-will never be-discovered to be~ seperatieds" "Pardon me, but why drag dhe lady Jauqueline> into: burying your-father's heritagecat the-seat of the worldd-most' aristocratic disqust?" "Because-she -undérstands: scorn, and® she-was: borm hereg" Ns ee oo

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Animal defends taking Jauqueline to Hawaii and back as a way of turning marriage, disguise, money, and aristocratic disgust into a shared riddle.

The page treats marriage less as domestic settlement than as an aesthetic and social wager. His language about bones, clothes, screens, and disguises makes love sound inseparable from class performance.


Claude

Animal defends taking Jauqueline to Hawaii and back as a way of turning marriage, disguise, money, and mythology into the same gesture. The page is his own apologia for the trip.