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By Jack Joseph Smith

An odor went through the noses. They seemed to all shift to the same scent; It would go up, not pass, so that each person knew that they were about breathing something difinate changing things. It surely was the sea! All felt that it was this power of space beyond something you know was movi- all but to be a little bit more considerate Shouts of, "kill him" Some things became a more resemblance of truth; he thought, thinking of all the bull shit he had heard; However a mood not to be dependant seemed an occasion of necessity: Why must I finally go along with the probabilities, he thought, backing off from how smart he wasn't too. It's not easy, as sea out here has a big mouth. The wind tounged out the sea and then all forces brought it in like a boulder? He clasped it fine hard somewhere amidst his palms and brought fire- outward from his internals, welding in a split second, a rapture he felt retained enough to fling about him to his captures without fear of himself rising out of it with no ending!

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The page imagines scent, breath, sea, and wind collapsing into a single overwhelming force while Animal thinks through necessity, probability, and capture.

Even with unresolved strikeouts, the movement is intense and physical. The scene is less about orderly thought than about being seized by pressure larger than the self, then trying to turn that pressure into courage or rapture.

Claude

An odor moves 'through the noses,' all shifting 'to the same scent' of the sea - 'this power of space' - while shouts of 'kill him' break in. Animal thinks against necessity ('Why must I finally go along with the probabilities... sea out here has a big mouth'), then the wind 'tounged out the sea' and 'all forces brought it in like a boulder.' He clasps it and brings 'fire- outward from his internals,' welding 'a rapture' to 'fling about him to his captures... rising out of it with no ending' - consciousness briefly indistinguishable from weather. This reading remains provisional because the OCR is mixed and several strikeouts are unresolved.