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By Jack Joseph Smith

Basketball Looking theother way and having someone else do it Or looking down your noise and doing it yourself God was cheated that, A child, black or white there was no way, whatever the player becomes, is the same I went in the next day and asked them about the universe

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GPT

The page treats basketball as a choice between delegation and direct action, then pushes that choice into a larger question about identity and the universe.

The typed section sets up a practical contrast: looking away and letting someone else act, or looking down and doing it yourself. The handwritten addition suddenly widens the frame from play to fate, race, sameness, and cosmic inquiry. That turn into `the universe` is characteristic of these notes, where everyday skill becomes a trigger for metaphysical thought.

Claude

The basketball sequence ends with a blunt theological turn: `God was cheated that, / A child, black or white / there was no way, / whatever the player / becomes, is the same`. The speaker goes into class the next day and asks them `about the universe`.