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By Jack Joseph Smith

oT " The-hene of Blanimane, A good sized mahehpny r table, In her early twenties; Z sister e Blankname, Dark brewn evegyy and arse length brown shining hati Blankname considers wl 23 sister the-nest beautiful women in the world, but’ she has preblems with mysti¢iem, Laeks to Problert> with Hew cults, but wants eff drugs, He lmews this is not possible-if she fellows the Eastern rele igiens, Southern Califernia:has not the eon= tinuity; there arene distant. mist’ deepened’ mountains: ef peags, Streight reality could be the -enly survivall fer this flewer, But she is , head streng, and without money his realistic : pesitiens are splintered with gaps. Just as her sees the oceult arriving on the Sante:Meneca: icansheres without source fer a:renewed’ con- etary he visions her mind being unaceept~- oo able te his teras without his show of a vie ; ; ihe -power,( Acknowledgenent is first shown in t sight, ther contomplation filters: through the F mind into a esanteexttod) For the family he - nust create something illistratives z Art: is: Bunetional in Blanknames thoughte. Design into form _- . , The-sister places,two glasses: ot red wine 7 A ‘. j f LE on the-table- ir oegt of Blankaane’ and 4.7". ony He Ft i 7 ' . ’ Nbber </ Jf ee

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Blankname's family scene is shaped by competing ideas of art, discipline, mysticism, and rescue, with the sister becoming the emotional center around which those anxieties gather.

The page is full of projection. Blankname wants form and realism, yet he is equally absorbed by how vulnerable beauty becomes in a culture of drugs, cults, and unstable meaning, which gives the domestic setting an undertow of fear.


Claude

Blankname's family scene sets competing ideas of art, discipline, mysticism, and rescue on the same table. The page introduces him as the manuscript's inheritance-figure.