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By Jack Joseph Smith

And so realized, that his brown paper bag was as much as if it were a part of him in that he had not noticed it being there, as in times when he had not noticed he had fingers until he had used them. He placed his brown paper bag on a good black rock and now his feet were slapping against the lengthy foam spinning up the beach, fast he was filled with the fresh taste and smell of the sea,

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The beach scene becomes bodily improvisation, where movement, self-awareness, and the sea fold into one another.

What survives most clearly is the shift from awkward self-consciousness into physical release. The brown paper bag becomes so much a part of him that he stops noticing it, and the beach turns into a place where body, object, foam, and salt air all join the same motion.