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By Jack Joseph Smith

“aEnetiers Kauai; the green ef the lowlands, The sea, and’ coconut links bending significant to.winds, In a time warmpth of wemen with the mountain, His de» - sires lad changed, and ‘lie could’ forse nething gee hime on perminant grace for the fact of a high= ness, THe picture of she would have te be cared’ for and nurtured, as he had’ wished’ for Himself, . THis women of chances to enchant’ herg but for the dream ef future past invading hin equallys. New he stood on a high prehistorie peak ready te return, This noor hour was his choice, fer: a days: waiting would surely bring him to his knees frem a believed’ in comas He looked below wateh= ing the distant sea:going the other way from ite: waves under curves ef color and ‘wind, (No por= . poise dive with a pessible-hepe for water) and a good’ sigh of emiles or was this: all the mask of sentimental trickery? His: witnees: wae her looking through the shapes ~ of distances, when a maze of sudden drivem clouds. 1 , passed ‘between the figure of his impressions. \ Might he send’ his mind tack to flight? (Listem fer sounds that’ will attach you to your visions) ie and lie was blind, His reaction wanted’ iis fingers Fo Oe " upen the-eyelids, but’ nothing. ttse-he-was param leeds degen cusulc) Ge p Grolkz PEE of ‘

Original Scan

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This page weighs desire against disappearance, as the memory of the woman and the landscape compete with Animal's drive to leave again.

He is pulled between tenderness and abstraction. Kauai remains vivid and sustaining, yet the moment will not settle into permanence, and the sudden blindness suggests that the wish to re-enter vision or feeling can itself become a crisis.


Claude

Desire weighs against disappearance as Lithetes and the landscape compete for what memory will keep. The page is deliberately ambivalent — Animal has been saved, but what he is returning with is not yet clear.