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By Jack Joseph Smith

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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.

Claude

Inside the cone Animal experiences blasted vision and hollow infinity, with marginal handwriting racing beside the typed account. The page belongs to the same ascent sequence but darkens it — the ecstasy is starting to test whether he can survive what he has climbed into.