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By Jack Joseph Smith

Listing of scenes for (Nineteen Sixty Four) Tijuana, Mexico; New Years night. The battle at the whore house. San Diego, Calif. Drinking at Doctor Black's bungalow on Sunset Cliffs. His son Neil visiting his pregnate girlfriend, Lucy. Pittsburgh Jack taking steam baths down by the Navy Yards. Doctor Black's new wife, who had the bulk of the money, telling Jack how her former husband from Allentown, Pa. hung himself over the scientific hell of the fifties. Her name is Francisco, even though she is not Italian, yet everything about her mannor and enviornment suggest that she is, Her two sons are with her; they both are students of science, and absolutely dispise Neil. Neil shows Pittsburgh Jack the room he had locked behind him for three days until inside it was heard that now he could play the gutar.

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This page is a scene list rather than finished prose, mapping the social and geographic range of a projected 'Nineteen Sixty Four' narrative.

What matters here is the spread of settings and tensions: Tijuana, San Diego, Pittsburgh, science, money, Neil, Lucy, steam baths, suicide, and the locked room where guitar becomes possible. The page feels like an architecture note for a larger work, already mixing Beat-adjacent figures with class friction, sexuality, and regional movement.

Claude

A prose 'Listing of scenes for (Nineteen Sixty Four)' that sketches the spine of a projected work. The entries run from 'The battle at the whore house' in Tijuana on New Years night, to drinking at Doctor Black's bungalow on Sunset, to son Neil visiting his 'pregnate' girlfriend Lucy on the Cliffs, to Pittsburgh Jack in the Navy Yards steam baths. The richest entry is the wife Francisco, not Italian yet seeming so, whose Allentown husband 'hung himself / over the scientific hell of the fifties', and whose science-student sons 'absolutely dispise Neil'. It closes on Neil's locked room, sealed three days until he 'could play the gutar'. Source spellings 'pregnate', 'mannor', 'enviornment', 'dispise', 'gutar' are kept as written.