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This fragment sees other people as pale, drifting figures in a misted street scene, reducing the page to a sharp and unsettling urban 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, crowding, and estrangement, with the street imagined through a dehumanizing comparison that feels deliberately abrasive rather than casual.

The book's closing handwritten fragment. Corrected in audit to read 'THE PALLIDNESS OF / OTHER PERSONS / SOBER / TIMES OR SEEN MOVING OVER / A MIST STREET — LIKE LOWER / HOLLYWOODS.' Pairs with 267's L.A. reference to end the volume on a specifically located horizon rather than a generic estrangement.