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By Jack Joseph Smith

forget. DEEPEN'dark - LIKE A hallway that smells LiKE Something you don't understand - not bitter not sweet, yes both - Kind Suddenly LiKE the furnace - the pipes being good in the winter - or LIKE wind in the summer - LIKE Something fast you know is slow - Maybe LiKE flashes of open clay in the winter - closed night in the summer - All in you heart - the Mind is A jungle - it is spinning.

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

The continuation deepens the mood into a sensory meditation where darkness, heat, wind, clay, and jungle all become ways of describing consciousness.

This page shifts from portrait into atmosphere. The repeated `LiKE` and `LIKE` clauses make the language exploratory, as if the speaker is circling an experience that cannot be defined directly. The last line matters most: the mind is not orderly here but wild and spinning, which makes the whole passage feel like remembered intoxication or obsession.

Claude

Opening with the carried-over 'forget.' from page 060, this turns the Chicago encounter into pure atmosphere built on repeated 'LiKE' clauses: 'DEEPEN'dark - LIKE A hallway that smells LiKE Something you don't understand - not bitter not sweet, yes both'. It circles contradiction - 'Something fast you know is slow', 'open clay in the winter - closed night in the summer' - and lands on the mind itself: 'All in you heart - the Mind is A jungle - it is spinning.' Source spellings and capitalization ('DEEPEN'dark', 'you heart') preserved.