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By Jack Joseph Smith

50 The-heljeppter landed, During the ride he had’ decided: to return te the mainland, New Yérk, no, Lode, it woulil be better, First theught, (I must go to. the supermarket and piek ue 3 peper bag, ) Then the -bank, Pearll Harber; cut of ite wPay Ss hips, A pale copy oF He-walked' in a-fact page te downtowm Honeluliy Gothic Steve (Kalakawawa~Bulvd; the fucking hotels, no, ) lied t to SEA, Thie-Los. Angeles terminal, oS HE torvee/ Through it inte it's cement. spaces le flaged Aung Por a cab, The -eab was cutting oe toward the flats ef Lineoli sisinal ee the Sisetries hills. * Véniee California; sumer, 1966, Newhere ia: there not the sense to Animal thet there ia: something important ending, Blur; Miamihonslulu, | the United States: needs: an. old world, . Comment betweem people; the weather, he thought: he saw . madnesa; oli age? He walked’ along the beach, . south ef the Venice Pier, The plan for it war i . te go. frox wood’ to cuuent, The quaint’ hones , were firm, and stad handsene, ‘ The steady pumping ef the oil diggers between property and direetly on: the- beach, . He had- te lnugh with the-flash: of . the. front. g lawn of Beverly Hills highschoel, and: ite sane ; sure-inditater ef LoA's ineureable surrealism \

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GPT

After the helicopter ride, Animal returns to Venice feeling that something important is ending in America.

The page mixes itinerary, profanity, urban geography, and cultural diagnosis. Honolulu, Los Angeles, oil diggers, beachfront property, and Beverly Hills all become symptoms of a national surrealism he can no longer take at face value.

Claude

Back in Venice, Animal feels that something important is ending in America — the return home is also a diagnosis. The page pivots from Hawaiian vision to Los Angeles critique.