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By Jack Joseph Smith
By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The page contrasts human industry with natural time, showing refined machinery and motion reduced to stillness or fallen remains under larger elemental forces.
Sugar mill, wheel, capsule, and invented motion all belong to a manufactured order, but the page steadily shrinks that order against winds, time, dust, and space. Even its emphasis on 'SEE' feels corrective, as if the speaker is trying to retrain perception away from industrial confidence and toward a harsher cosmic scale where technology lies fallen.
Frame-script page 6 delivers the section's eulogy for industry. A long nineteen-second cue sets up the ruin: 'The sugar mill of the / refined man,' undone because 'the winds of / god's distroyed / his taste,' so that 'circular industry could / not stand firm / under the winds / of time through / space.' Three insistent 'SEE' cues press the lesson home - 'SEE how the / capsule lies / fallen,' 'SEE how the / places to put / have been put / as dust,' and finally 'The wheel and / man's invented / motion stand still.' The repeated imperative reads as correction, retraining the eye away from industrial confidence toward a cosmic scale in which colonial machinery has already fallen to dust.