Edited text: Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.
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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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, p. 695 / see also in the Internet: http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/erdgen.xq?id=b6
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85. To God p.73
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88. "Now Art has lost its mental Charms…" p.79
89. "Nail his neck to the Cross nail it with a nail…" p.79
90. "The Caverns of the Grave Ive seen…" p.87
91. "I rose up at the dawn of day…" p.89
92. "A Woman Scaly & a Man all Hairy…" p.93
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93. "Every thing which is in harmony with me…" p.92 rev
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