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By Jack Joseph Smith

127 hz is always there, It's the récognition of beauty that gives meaning to paing. Mankind would not endurey if there was no belief in light, It is many times not veashed because man seldom has the strength to go beyond faith, But the spirit is always waiting to shine and it can only take so much darlmess, Sometime there will have to be a final explosion for yous or death, I am also talking about myself Michael, but in a different waye In a sense, you have already accepted the lights Yess . I haven't and I know thatg I find it very difficult to believe in God anymores The trip to South America was a hell journey. My father must have taken thirty of his business friends, At this point that wordy.business friend,iis.calm, Gangsters is the best I ean presently come up witha One guy told me a story avout how he made ite When he came back from the wary.he had malte enough money gambling and hussling to buy some fancy clothes and flay awhile, He started moving around in the racket money cfrelesi He was a good boxer, People got to know hime Outside of town, they had a ring set up in an old barn, Only the in people new where it wase The rich kmew and they came from all avers The gangsters asked him to be a gladdtor, If he fought for one year, they would give him a setup, One year under the lightsy. between ; the fat faces of the rich, Fighting bare fisted, util he or his opponent was down for the night or deadg Do you Imow what a cat walk is Danial? Nog It's a runway just below the ceiling, where men walk with toumie gums to protect . ‘the money vs foased on the floors He fought under those guns every other night for @ yeara That was his business cthritedilond 5 . He's one of the better business ocr Sata

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Dani argues that beauty and light are what give pain meaning, while Michael admits he can no longer believe in God and answers with a South America story about a gangster made to fight bare-fisted under guns and rich spectators for a year.

The exchange pulls Michael's violence into a larger moral frame: Dani keeps pushing toward faith and light, while Michael answers with spectacle, rackets, and bodily ordeal. South America arrives not as travel but as another proof that power turns men into entertainment.


Claude

The beloved is always there: Danial's counter-doctrine that mankind would not endure without a belief in light, which Michael calls acceptance of the light while admitting he himself cannot still believe in God.