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By Jack Joseph Smith

On The nature of the Body When we desire Los Angles we find the place in the world where desperation has Meaning. ANIMAL III, ON THE BEACH ON THE BEACH WITH Animal III CHARACTERS Animal BABY HUEY JIVEN JOE THE FOX AL BLANKNAME BLACKIE DANNY BOY THE POET NAT

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The title page frames Los Angles as a place where bodily desire and desperation meet, then opens the sequence into a named social world of recurring figures.

This page functions like both epigraph and stage-setting. The brief opening statement gives the prose sequence its charged geography, and the cast list makes the work feel part novel, part screenplay, part beach-side mythbook.