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This fragment sees sober persons through pallidness, untouched distance, and movement, reducing the page to a sharp, unsettled Hollywood street image.

Because the page survives only as a brief handwritten fragment, the interpretation has to stay narrow. What remains is a stark perception of pallor, sobriety, distance, movement, and estrangement, with the street imagined through a misted lower-Hollywood image.

The surviving fragment reads as a broken sequence: the pallidness of sober persons, something they have never touched, and times or scenes never seen moving even, then a mist street compared to lower Hollywood. The syntax does not resolve into a complete sentence, so this reading only tracks the fragment's own word order rather than reconstructing a finished thought.