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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
Michael keeps riding in the expensive Cadillac while talking with O'Dandy about misery, compensation money, unconsciousness, the limp survivor of the pole crash, and the two other deaths still trailing behind that road to West Virginia.
The contradiction is the point here: luxury, injury money, and roadside death are all sharing the same moving interior. The page closes with the crash no longer as a boast or anecdote but as a stubborn fact that money cannot smooth over.
O'Dandy's symphony argument — you can afford to like what you do not have to explain — builds the class-consciousness thesis, flips into the pole-crashed brother story, and drops into the resentment that they are sorry the brothers died but are still jagg-offs.