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By Jack Joseph Smith

198 would gog A freak looking for hia fancy of a bath in the swimming pool. A dark tramp in search of an oranges But off the freeway-—-} The cops sniff was trained so that the-nervious system of the law'would sense a troubled man, "and they want that package for credit," For the Prankster, "no asphalt cop in cruze." amazing! T'a out of there} And then, "but they would be: on ce~ nent-———_" He could see-down through the up hill shrubs: to the medow, and it appeared that he was cleared’ of being chased, But’ now out of the trees he-no longer was om his: feet from fear of being: seen; and‘ in the position of a curved up stomach he thought-his thoughts: on.a bare whisper through the mountain dirt-sand’ caked’ flat over hig lips, "Iwill still go back to Mexico, I aw high, Iwill stay that way and make-it dowmees® The ship had returned Jaugeline and Animal to San Francisco, Now they were°hiteh=hiking South on the Pacific Coast Highway through Malibu with Poe: brown paper bag: for luggages The summer air was yell- ow at afternoon, and soon they would be wt Eta phe Pawwier, Monita for beer and ha-rawe’ "That Disk Jockey wedding was: just perfect," said Jaugelines "Not hippie; not pop art; he but made * smooth anouncement of us over the: waveso"

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Prankster's escape fantasy toward Mexico gives way abruptly to Animal and Jaugeline re-entering the book from another coast road, making flight itself a recurring structure rather than a single event.

The transition is sharp but meaningful. One fugitive sequence bleeds into another kind of drifting passage, suggesting that movement southward, bags in hand, and improvised reinvention are the book's default answers to disaster.

Claude

Prankster's escape fantasy toward Mexico gives way abruptly to Animal and Jaugeline re-entering the frame. The page pivots the action back to the main couple.