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By Jack Joseph Smith

136 : I asked him if he was alright, and then offered him an unsmoked cigars Ha, ha, they laughed and laughed, he must have loved ite ; He asked if it was a thirty five or a five, 4 What was it? : It was a thirty five, I aa benevolent, don't you Imows Anyway I was much younger then, : Martin P,. looked at me, and his hate for the whole scene moved his eyelids downs His expression was fixed and he was puffing a cigars Weinkles ran in twitching triangles to the last dementions of his faces How much was that cigar, Martin Pey cried the voice of Uncle dackie? Shut the fuck up you little punk. I was the champion of the world; Don't talk to me like thate Your dice game is up pat, and I don't care who you were. Just keep your punk face back in the corners And if I don't? I'll break your braing few No you won't,caaidthe voice of Hamerigan, I'll bring down some heavyts from upsfates My father looked up and mumbled, what are all you crazy people talking about? Where are. they now Hammerigan? Mextin P; waspissed, “dh Cy & Ss ol Soe oy Ma oe RY 8 Mg weYourdnouthér fucking foot Mb your;mouth shut, I deal with the noWs T'1l-have them down heres One more fucking word and youl, a dead mang. Silences

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The dream narrows into a tense exchange about the cigar, the blind man, and old debts until Martin P., glaring through smoke, threatens Hammerigan and Uncle Jackie with sudden physical force and brings the room to silence.

Even through the rough transcription, the power lines are easy to feel: mockery gives way to menace, and Martin P. becomes the hard edge of the father's world. The office nightmare runs on small objects, especially the cigar, that keep turning into measures of cruelty and status.

Claude

The dream sequence continues in handwritten-overlaid TOML territory: Michael is offering the blind, poor, poorly-speaking man an unsmoked thirty-five-cent cigar, the business friends laughing he must have loved it — ending with Martin P.'s fixed hate-stare and cigar wrinkles.