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By Jack Joseph Smith

Her thoughts were not racy. They were moving quickly for her, but direct like good dreams. They vibrated, yet they were focused willfully. A calm came over her. She began to express what retained itself as a dream image to her as an actuality. She had to build to her sensation of truth, for she somehow understood that this man would not believe her if all things remained equal. She laughed, freeing her- self from shaking any more with the story in her knees. Turning back to her piecemeal, the beginning begins to begin with the beginning. Thinking dir- ectly of experience under the moon and experiences under the sun, she hoped for nothing to overshadow her beliefs. Every other word of her thoughts starts forming a reality; then she holds back with excite- ment at whole sequences of paragraphs. Before she be- came dizzy with sentences, one hundred realities in her thoughts became one word: Thus, He has walked out of the mountains of the island of Kauai. He has begun from the center part of the island in the early morning, and through the day has climbed and descended a series of hills and canyons until he had reached the ocean; now he was along the road by the sea, it is approaching dusk, with the sun setting over the Pacific. He walks tongue in check, with a world of suprise on his face, yet a furrow across his brow. Wide ears, big teeth for a straight mouthed man, and he knew when he licked his nose; THE LINE TRANSITION N.C. WAIMEA CANYON (with his brown paper bag) AUDIENCE MOB

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This page stages composition as a rising force, then pivots into Animal walking from Kauai's mountains toward the ocean while editorial labels expose the draft's architecture.

Thought moves from vibration toward form until one hundred realities become one word and Animal takes bodily shape on the road at dusk. THE LINE, TRANSITION, WAIMEA CANYON, and AUDIENCE MOB make the page read simultaneously as narrative and working scene design.

Claude

A woman's quick but willfully focused thoughts crystallize into a single narrative image: Animal descending from the mountains of Kauai to the sea road at dusk, walking tongue in check with suprise and a furrow on his face. THE LINE, TRANSITION, WAIMEA CANYON, and AUDIENCE MOB frame the prose as a staged or filmed sequence as well as narration.