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By Jack Joseph Smith

13 Some were not completely in controliand Z-could sense them pretending to be im the darkness; He was: unafraid. And he waited until I was ready, before he looked at: meg. His syes-came down down, as if rolling out of someplace -beyonds He- had left the microphone-om the stage and he stood there with his eyes and hands being the only transmitters-of Our communications. Others had brought the microphone ‘acroos the floor with ite wire winding like a man made* snake spitting oyt the acts of hymen indulgences. You were-born far away and have already lead two sets of livess You see what you don't see-and don't see what you sees No fons here nderstands this, but you:will in times’ You were~born when the wind begins, March would be the month; Toward the beginning, for your wind does not yell as: does the. song of April: deep in the heart of the landé. Your wind is rising and passes on and on in: the : middle of earth efid skys As of yet you have not been harmed, for all aroynd you love-your spirit, which your parents call your souls But a time will’ come when people will sense this passing yj om and on: that I have spoken of, and then you will’ see that you are alone and only then understand who your true i friends: You are very young in all ways I am not frightening you am I, he- asked? I remember: answering no, You are eight years:olds' You-do not like something about your lifes It is schoolé There are toguany girls around, and } you want to learn the ways-of meni I see you are-a Catholic, he said laughing : a littles I am not from this city but I can see where you lives It is a very comfortable-place, but also very strong in a strange ways You go away to : school every day, because your parents want you tos They know and you know i that there is a school near your home where you should bes I can not see the: school, but I can see the man who controls iti! You must: go to him: He will }

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AI Interpretation

GPT

The magician speaks directly into the child's life, naming his age, adoption-like doubleness, loneliness to come, hatred of girl-filled school, Catholic upbringing, and the need to seek out a strong man at the nearby parish school.

This is one of the clearest visionary moments in the manuscript, because the magician's language fuses stage trickery with unsettling precision about the child's inward life. The prophecy matters not just for what it predicts, but for how completely it makes the child feel seen.


Claude

The Magician's reading begins: born when the wind begins, two sets of lives already lived, people will someday sense this passing — a page that quietly rewrites the whole Mount Mercy complaint as a prophecy about Papa Joe.