Page 89

By Jack Joseph Smith

65 te engage in pretense-deveted’ te the monolith ef modern prayer," : He indicated to the monmment, but: Jauquline's: eyes: were on white -puffed clouds eressing bet= ween the sum and a religious:fairyland, A faint laugh signaled something te her former lever. A bit ef sublime -patience and he might have kmewn, that she would not have been suprised te see ch= eruss and nymphs decending through the eleuda to : rest. thei angelic souls :of form upon his little. garden valley in am aria-ef sound from their brass: hornss but he theught’ a stight, = ree : Er mark taking him te turn, due-ne deubt to ie apite= ful spirit. And strangely enough his reply to his fantasy : was3 “do yeu net knew that our mentrum is perhaps the mest dedicated veite to Géd’ im Les: Angeless* And new her ‘laughter as spiteful, "De yeu think yeu are the only ene who prays in LgAs? And in this: unholy eity, where did you get your: upper middle class home te do it frent® “Yogananda says that Karma-is the place ene acc~ epty-ond acts: from without guilt." “then why do you preach te me when I ‘aceept: ay place in the-world, and at the seme time try ani

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AI Interpretation

GPT

Jaugeline's argument cuts through respectable religious language by tying prayer, class comfort, and moral authority back to material position.

What makes the page sharp is that it refuses the easy opposition between spiritual purity and urban corruption. Jaugeline sees that sanctity can be cushioned by wealth, and her laughter exposes how quickly piety can become another form of superiority.

Claude

Jaugeline ties prayer, class comfort, and polite phrasing together into one target and cuts through all three. The page is one of the manuscript's sharpest pieces of social speech.