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By Jack Joseph Smith

fool: She laughed and said, "but pure white means good, that pure white guide you in your life; I think it is the same. A little while ago you made a joke about Mary the virgin. So you laugh at her, and at the same time seem afraid of the stars. But the way you picture them both, I'll bet it is absolutely white." The stars have all the colors, yet we see them white as Mary. If we come close to them, we are drawn as color into the core of them, and there we are left to die. The Blessed Virgin is the image of suggest- ivity. She is the dream white. It is her re- straint, and her cloths mean nothing because she has believed herself that her very inward factor is her power. She lets us wonder if she can feel, because if she can feel, she can sigh. while Einstein came back from the stars with a cape on his back to let us know that he did.

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This page turns whiteness into a spiritual and cosmic argument, moving from Mary to stars to a surreal Einstein figure.

The page treats white not as emptiness but as charged restraint, purity, and overwhelming intensity. The restored speech connects Mary's whiteness with fear of the stars, then the meditation turns Mary, stars, feeling, and the strange return of Einstein into one register of theology, cosmology, and comic revelation.

Claude

She catches the contradiction in his cosmology: 'A little while ago you made a joke about Mary the virgin. So you laugh at her, and at the same time seem afraid of the stars,' picturing both 'absolutely white.' The meditation runs the figure out - 'The stars have all the colors, yet we see them white as Mary'; come too close and 'we are drawn as color into the core of them, and there we are left to die.' The Blessed Virgin is 'the image of suggestivity ... the dream white,' her power 'her very inward factor,' and 'She lets us wonder if she can feel, because if she can feel, she can sigh.' The handwritten coda caps it with comic mythology: 'Einstein came back from the stars with a cape on his back to let us know that he did.'