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By Jack Joseph Smith

35 He spum with the walls of the oeney Spun with it making eirele hinself, beneath tut upen also ite A Wel ATAIM Wee-the-ehiveniin recognition from the eceasional sound of the wind’ boom, But new it was pure Vined Gone, with no midway te endings The eun wae the suns The spun cone wound’ im from light, down past hilig, back to its and’ lle begitming peint of darkness, Tae Back beneath the surface of his unconscious beginn= ing, the sea Had developed ints green, and se the sky iw earth expanse aroun? the-first dark parts of coned pin point, inte simatwesphere of blue . THe gray segrand sky with wind the eceler sounl of light relling sheet steel had been cut by the waite ing white Ante the hues: of earthe demention and’ tex- ture, , and’ with tle-next seund ef beom le managed in~ stead of submitting to the fixed upward stare of his: eyes: a couplete downward pull ef viewpoint. litte the base of the cone, Still he could see only a final dank, but the great dot seemed te tilt te and fro, , ag if ite belowness were being ewayed by the bill= : ewes Suddenly abeve the first outward rises ef the aone, lie noticed’ reund’ red’ bubbled flashes stream ing through, Certainly the cone was changinge Aamo Hi cee foc t 2 rena hnte

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page deepens the visionary sequence by changing the sun from an object of ascent into a structure with an underside, a darkness, and signs of transformation within it.

The imagery becomes more metaphysical than ecstatic. Instead of simple uplift, Animal enters a rotating system where light and darkness depend on one another, and the revelation lies in noticing that even the apparent source of illumination has hidden depth and instability.


Claude

The sun stops being an object of ascent and becomes a structural law he is inside of — the page extends the visionary passage by dissolving the boundary between climber and cone. The handwritten overlays keep the lyric pressure from settling into finished prose.