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A bare title page anchors the surrounding fragments in time and authorship: nineteen sixty four, Jack Smith.

Because the page is so stripped down, it works almost like a divider in a notebook. It gives the surrounding notes a date and a name, turning scattered fragments into something like a provisional sequence.

A stripped title page: 'nineteen sixty four' over 'jack smith', both in lowercase. Spelling the year out as words rather than digits softens it from a date into a name, and the small-case byline keeps the authorship quiet and unassertive. Functionally it is a divider, fixing the surrounding fragments to a single year and a single hand.