Page 257

By Jack Joseph Smith

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page returns to a reflective interior register, where Animal measures the loss of the mountains against the degraded, half-forgotten life he has wandered into.

The OCR is rough, but the emotional direction is clear: he is trying to understand whether leaving one kind of height was ever anything but a movement back toward compromise, memory, and disfigurement.

Claude

The page returns to interior register, where Animal measures the loss of the mountains against what has happened on the beach. This is recovery read as accounting.