Page 79
By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page turns acceptance, violence, architecture, and weaponry into one field of imagery, as if thought itself were building an apparatus of harm.
Its diction is jagged and unstable, but the momentum is clear: acceptance, structures, dreams, heart-ripping, shattered glass, crow's nests, blood, mines, grenades, and the final pig/blood continuation all belong to the same imaginative system.
An untitled prose block where thought builds an apparatus of harm: 'This mind comes to speak of Acceptance as a wepaon / Winden your containment then close fast / to show steaple and light and give greavence / and death.' It theorizes demolition as creation -- 'All Structures are ground so distroy them while leting / their imagry another existance, control that, so / finally you can watch the enemy building dreams / now open to getting their heart ripped out.' From there it cascades into a war-and-ruin catalogue: 'this shattered glass, this bent I beam,' 'this widows peak, this crow's / nest, these waving fields of body and blood,' 'these cattle hoves for mines,' bodies fulfilling 'their Karma / over garnades,' the proverb of 'fighting over spilled milk.' The restored handwritten continuation darkens the close: 'And the pig huckers blood / not from a bollit, but from binding / while the corse dosen't disguises / IT is to familiar to be final.' This reading remains provisional because the page is good-but-uncertain with needs_manual_review set, and the dense top and side marginal annotations stay unresolved. Source spellings 'wepaon,' 'steaple,' 'greavence,' 'distroy,' 'wonderfulful,' 'garnades,' 'bollit,' and 'corse' are kept as written.