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By Jack Joseph Smith

ES - Sf 172 Then it is fear and not intelligence, zhat keeps you from relating to the cops honestly. If you went beyond them, by blowing them up or by not rélating to them at all, they would discover, at least in their relationship to yous that they were useless, At that point, they would force you to take it all the ways Either you would have to exercise sreat self control, and never get involved with them again, or you would have to fight them yntil the death) They represent many. thingss don't they Dandy? The cops are figure headss Stupid archtypes in a physical form demonstrat ing the general ways of relating, that our system has physidlopicaliy forced upon uss You're not ready to take it all the way with them, one way or anoyther, and I don'+ think you ever will be, You'll always be driven Dandy: You'll always be inbetween, and you'll always: be driven, because your spirit was born with to mych awareness, that you refuse to follows Yes it does exist, That wordy that you detest so mychs Boy, you. sure want to paint it red don't yous ; Hey M,rf, do you want to get laid? Sure, let's get rambling; Would the journey sufficate you Dandy? What fucking journey? The journey through the eatth, The decentions the journey from space to spaces The Pinal search, I%h not searching for space you jagg offs . : The depths would enable us to see then what we can't see now; After: we experience i the earthy:we will be able to see the skys. : Eah, I'11 be staring at something much stroger than the sky in about one hours He started the car and we began to slowly move along the widécand long streets: Is what I think Dandy is, that every time you compromise, someday, sometime, or ;

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AI Interpretation

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As the argument continues, Michael says compromise keeps filling the hole back in, Dandy replies that he only arranges each moment to fit his own needs, and Michael finally drinks again and rides with them toward downtown and the coming sun.

The page ends in surrender rather than resolution, which fits the whole exchange. Michael sees the problem clearly enough to name it, but not clearly enough to stop following the same road for another round.


Claude

Dandy's credo — whatever is necessary to get what I want is what I do, I arrange the moment to fit my own needs — set against Michael's refusal to ignore what he cannot yet communicate clearly; both take another hit from the bottle.