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By Jack Joseph Smith

He spun with the walls of the cone; Spun with it making circle himself, beneath but upon also its circumference, and again recognition from the occasional sound of the wind boom. But now it was pure lined cone, with no midway to ending. The sun was the sun. The spun cone wound in from light, down past him, back to its and his beginning point of darkness; Back beneath the surface of his unconscious beginning, the sea had developed into green, and so the sky in earth expanse around the first dark parts of coned pin point, into atmosphere of blue. The gray sea and sky with wind the color sound of light rolling sheet steel had been cut by the wait- ing white into the hues of earths demention and tex- ture, and with the next sound of boom he managed in- stead of submitting to the fixed upward stare of his eyes a complete downward pull of viewpoint into the base of the cone. Still he could see only a final dark, but the great dot seemed to tilt to and fro, as if its belowness were being swayed by the bill- ows. Suddenly above the first outward rises of the cone, he noticed round red bubbled flashes stream- ing through. Certainly the cone was changing, his fixation condensed into

Original Scan

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. The red bubbled flashes at the end signal that the cone itself is beginning to alter.

Claude

He spins 'with the walls of the cone,' both 'beneath but upon also its circumference,' until it is 'pure lined cone, with no midway to ending' and 'The sun was the sun.' The spiral winds 'back to its and his beginning point of darkness,' beneath 'his unconscious beginning' where the sea turns green and earth's 'demention and texture' resolve from 'rolling sheet steel.' Wresting his gaze from the 'fixed upward stare' to 'a complete downward pull,' he sees the 'great dot' tilt 'as if its belowness were being swayed by the billows,' then 'round red bubbled flashes' signal the cone is changing.