Do what you will this life's a fiction



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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:


Do what you will this Life’s a fiction, And is made up [o] 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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