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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 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.
Film script page 6. A long speech on the old sugar mill, the refined man whose taste the winds of the gods destroyed. Circular industry could not stand firm. The page then turns to the thin capsule, places put as dust, and the wheel and man's invented motion standing still. Colonial industry gets its eulogy.