Page 62
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
Animal's ascent turns frightening as the cone reverses, silence presses on the mind, and light demands a reverent stare.
The page moves from visionary intensity into crisis. Bubbles, red waves, ultra-violet light, and coal intensity make perception feel physical and punishing, while the mind tries to keep up with a speed beyond intelligence. The reversed cone marks a shift from exaltation into disorientation.
For a flash he feels he has 'lost his last thin frame of flesh,' set 'in the middle of the light' as 'flickering bubbles' throw 'red waves' from 'the depths of the cone, like chemicals in charade,' that make him 'frightened.' 'Tremendous pressure' makes 'the cells of his center balance grasp for knowledge,' and stark silence whips his mind until his brain is 'a pin point of darkness glaning like a black pyramid' beneath 'an earth fallen sun,' burned into 'believing that the cone had reversed.' With 'nothing perfect now' and no 'demention' to place him, his speed quickens 'past intelligence.'