Do what you will this life's a fiction
Edited text:[1][edit]
cxxxi
Do what you will this life's a fiction,
And is made up of contradiction.
MS. Book, p. 98, above stanza C 4 of ' Fayette' (MS. Book, xxxvi), which
appears upside down, written from the reversed end of the book. Printed
here for first time.
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Other versions:[2][edit]
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Do what you will this Life’s a fiction,[3]
And is made up [o][4] of Contradiction.
(The Everlasting Gospel , fragment "j" 50-51)
Versions written elsewhere in the MS. Book:
a)
This corporeal life’s a fiction
And is made up of contradiction.
(The Everlasting Gospel, deleted in fragment "k" )
b)
This corporeal All a fiction
And is made up of Contradiction.
(The Everlasting Gospel, deleted in fragment "k" )
c)
All corporeal life’s a fiction
And is made up of Contradiction.
(The Everlasting Gospel, deleted in fragment "k" )
d)
Reasoning upon its own Dark Fiction
In Doubt which is Self Contradiction.
(The Everlasting Gospel, fragment "k" 91-92)
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Notes[edit]
- ↑ The poetical works of William Blake; a new and verbatim text from the manuscript engraved and letterpress originals; With variorum readings and bibliographical notes and prefaces, edited by Sampson, John, Clarendon Press Oxford 1905, c. 239.
- ↑ "The Complete Poetry & Prose of William Blake", ed. by David V. Erdman, Anchor Books, 1988.
- ↑ Here and further Blake wrote "Lifes" or "lifes" instead of "life’s". -- The note by the editor of Wikisource.
- ↑ Deleted.
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