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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This tiny handwritten note preserves two craftsmen's names as if the manuscript were keeping its own private index of labor and memory.
Its scale is documentary rather than lyrical, but that makes it useful. Shoemakers recur elsewhere in this material, so even a brief note like this feels like part of the manuscript's ongoing map of trades, people, and local lineage.
A two-line index of trade: 'Canterille - shoemaker' and 'Cordello - shoemaker'. The shoemaker recurs across the notebook (the lounge list at page 16, the cobbler with the hammer at page 12), so this bare pairing reads as the manuscript keeping its own running register of local craftsmen, the spellings shifting as the speaker recalls them.