Versos English William Blake Do what you will this life's a fiction

English poem

Do what you will this life's a fiction

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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)