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By Jack Joseph Smith

1s or so it appears to those looking om, 5ut its filled with the same caverns you see twisting through the world, Sometimes, I too get lost. “ut then 1 just take a look around at the space, and come up for some good old earth air,.The University isn't so bads There are men there who can help one cross the bridges of oblivion). All the same 1 don't hope for much, because it's all the same, The space there is the same as-the space in your alleys, The forms change, but the space remains the sane o1aee your eyes*Michael, Do you think you could stop drinking at this point? Thet might’ change things, You took an oath once, didn't youg Yeas : : Does the Church still have a power over you? 2 The last.time 1 went to church, O'Dandy and 1 staggered drynk into the sacristy immediately before Mass, and demanded that the priest hear our confessionss That's the last time +.watched Christ die on stages Did ‘he hear your confession; : Yeas. We woth laughed widely wild wishing at the same time for anouther round to wash H our whispers into largeness,.Irwalked to the bar laughings I go to order anofther round, for I have found, that it kills ahecand Hoof and mouth, 1 hopes. To the table he returns, Yeas With a beer for he and a beer for mes Now let us see, where were we? Somewhere on a dangerous street, I do believe, Somewhere black, and fearful’ to perceives The Catholic chruch was in questions

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Dani speaks of the university and mental space while asking whether Michael could stop drinking or still feels the Church's hold, and Michael answers with a story about staggering drunk into a sacristy with O'Dandy to demand confession before Mass.

Religion enters here as both farce and wound, with confession turned into a barroom anecdote and Christ reduced to another stage scene. Their laughter keeps the talk loose, but the question of whether anything still has power over Michael remains unsettled.

Claude

Danial asks whether he could stop drinking, whether the Church still has a power over him; Michael recounts O'Dandy and him staggering drunk into the sacristy before Mass demanding confession, and the page pivots back to laughter and another round.