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By Jack Joseph Smith

outside of effectual range. But the burst put his mind out to a distance from where he saw what seemed to be a bow in the cone. The appeared change reflected a concaved spectrum of light beams at con- vexed point. A shape similiar to an hour glass, only a piece of sand about the sun lost not by gravity, and for him the pull from below was the same. He rose to perceptions of thin slashing light witness- ed from the inside as the captive of a hollow, wild, and singular infinity. He made the pierce of bolted visions, and his eyes grew peripheral across the sun. Without the beams his entire system of balance was pressured into shape by the form of the cone. The sight of heat, taken far from feeling. A yearn deep- ly abstracted below the abdomen of him souled for the accomplishment of breaking through sight. Yet he understood the image of what he experienced, for he had never touched the matter of it. He had felt the sun from a distance, but its rays had gone through him, his nerve endings had never passed th- rough it. There seemed no laughter in splendor. No sigh or gasp at the apprehension of death. Any type of change would only take place after the duration of long patterns, but he would feel a strange re- assurance at the slightest notice of it.

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Inside the cone, Animal experiences blasted vision, hollow infinity, and the effort to break through sight itself.

This page sits at the center of the flight sequence's sensory logic. It is less about transcendence than about surviving an encounter with scale, brightness, and abstraction that the body can barely register. The sand and gravity image makes the vision feel suspended between cosmic scale and bodily reassurance.


Claude

A burst throws his mind 'out to a distance' where he sees 'a bow in the cone,' a shape 'similiar to an hour glass,' himself 'a piece of sand about the sun lost not by gravity.' He becomes 'the captive of a hollow, wild, and singular infinity,' a 'yearn deeply abstracted below the abdomen' that 'souled for the accomplishment of breaking through sight.' He grasps the image only because 'he had never touched the matter of it'; there is 'no laughter in splendor,' 'no sigh or gasp at the apprehension of death,' only change 'after the duration of long patterns.'