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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

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

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, with its all-caps stresses on `BLACK or WHITE`, `WAS NO WAY`, and `UNIVERSE`. That turn is characteristic of these notes, where everyday skill becomes a trigger for metaphysical thought.

Claude

The typed half restates the by-now-ritual choice - 'Looking theother way and having someone else do it / Or looking down your noise and doing it yourself' - before a handwritten lower section swerves into theology and race in shouted capitals: 'God WAS cheated that, / A child, BLACK or WHITE / there WAS NO WAY, / whatever the player BECOMES is the SAME'. It ends with the speaker carrying that revelation back into the everyday: 'I went in the next day and asked them About the UNIVERSE'. Source forms 'theother', 'noise' (for nose) preserved along with the all-caps emphasis.