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By Jack Joseph Smith

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GPT

The talk swings from whether society is the hereafter to whether death can include awareness, with O'Dandy denying it, Michael pushing the question, and Murphy turning death into a hovering bird over cement.

The bar-fight world starts trying to think metaphysically here, but it can only do it in the same crude idiom of pain, silence, and mockery. Murphy's bird image stands out because it suddenly gives the discussion a real poetic stillness.

Claude

Outside the police station the three compose a Catholic ritual out of their release — Murphy saying in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost — and the argument pivots to whether society is the hereafter and whether one can be dead and still aware.