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By Jack Joseph Smith

~ 4 7 and you're tallding sowe kind of obseure nonsolence: You Imow exactly what’ Ila saying Dandy, Ih saying that Myrf or you or I are going to be im jail again, and we will probably end up doing something on the same level to get one or the other or all three outs But we can go beyond that particular jail, : and still continue omsour individual jJourneyse. How do we go beyond that particular jail Michael? We blow it ups Ha hag Your fucking nutes Your so fucking unrealistic, I can't believe its Where are you headed Dandy? Is it a game? And if it ia, how do you play a game with : self distruction? Not that I am not headed in the same direction that you ares. but my perceptions don't include gamess’ Eah, who gives-a shit? T doy, and you obviously don! t: ; Your: talking alot of horse shit) Michael, and you're also feeling sorry for yourself, i Your ‘not’ going anywhere any deeper than anybody elses Every mans: pain is thesame, and each man has his little same sized tox to keep it in, The little tox is called the gut Michaels. We all’ have the little gut staring us in the face all the times. And for i everyone of us, it's-the same fgoe, Pain ig ov% reminder of hell Dandys On individual moments some see nore of hell than. others, because its intensity is stronger and they must be allowed more visions. A longer moment maybe to idenfy their agony. A realization so that they may slice: sone thing off from their soul’ and live again):.That's haw strong it is for me Dandy/y how strong is it for youf ; Who gives a shit, how strons it is for ne, or for anybody, for Christa sakes Is it a same? Fuck you and you're games, Of course it's a sames

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GPT

Michael presses harder, saying fear keeps Dandy from either destroying the police relation entirely or refusing it altogether, and turns the whole subject toward archetypes, final searches, descent, awareness, and the in-between life Dandy keeps choosing.

The cops become symbolic here, not just opponents but embodiments of a way of living that Dandy cannot quite leave or embrace. Michael wants an absolute break, while Dandy keeps pulling the talk back toward appetite and immediate flesh.


Claude

The jail-ness-beyond-this-jail argument: Michael proposes they blow it up, each of us must go beyond the point we begin with; O'Dandy calls him unrealistic and Michael answers that self-destruction is not a game, pain's intensity demands more vision.