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By Jack Joseph Smith

45 Thene:in a canyer he-was.seated quitk against ar smecth lava etene, shaped with no jage He rese ah . ssiiight stunned; Then taking seriously the way: he moved, he- began te make geod feoting through the upside -ef the-erevites{ He would take:a chanced, : and’ Hound’ out from athned tight timings Stepping , en ee at first, he: longed’ fer the aweep ef , strides aiding te ee ee liter gains: for: e bedl” snpbibeltion. of new-energys Hig gore Lf irreatty upen the earth, but back Weyand’ the image of structural tiney Wiere wihag <7 Wae-not an-institution, tut rather a relationships Up inside-ef hia he robtp-e gladness, as if aw anitial aliouti to ke man at the touchstone of the Piret community: of caves; Hé iota that He eae ; never kel Home again eache- wane nan. He had deve eff the cock tailed ship of American ~ ‘ nobility directly: during the middle ages of the twentieth century, The bitter end being the enemy ‘ jaa . he never wanted te enjoy ag a-lesseny He had te ask himself about flying from water before the year two thousand, ‘ . , Hé leeked’ eut ever the canyons and peaks te the . eesan, So much, yet the werld appeared’ as if it were at glanae, Ani not se many: years ago a glass”

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GPT

Back on land, the page frames the canyon climb as a return to something older than modern prestige, set against the failed nobility of twentieth-century America.

The language of caves, earth, and primitive gladness makes this feel like a stripping away of social costume. Animal's rejection of inherited American grandeur is not merely political; it is tied to a search for a more elemental footing in body, history, and place.


Claude

Back on land, the canyon climb is written as return to something older than modern prestige — not defeat but recalibration. The page reads as reentry from vision into geography.