Page 273

By Jack Joseph Smith

Correction The warrior begins, long before the soldier The warrior begins before swimming The warrior begins before the bicycle The warrior knows, before the warrior can walk A warrior may choose, an entire life; even as there, and when the making of the matter comes close, without killing anyone And A soldier NEEDs to be A WArrior A WArrior dosen't HAVE to be ANYbody

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AI Interpretation

GPT

This second state of Correction repeats the same claim: warriorhood precedes action and identity, making nonviolence a deeper strength than soldiering.

Because this page closely mirrors the previous one, its effect is insistence rather than development. The idea is hammered into place: the warrior begins earlier, chooses more freely, and does not depend on killing or on becoming somebody. That repeated contrast makes the page feel like a credo under revision.

Claude

A second state of 'Correction', repeating page 272 line for line through the handwritten coda. Its effect is insistence rather than development: 'The warrior begins, / long before the soldier', may 'choose... / an entire life... / without killing anyone', and the inversion holds -- 'A soldier / NEEDs to be / A WArrior', while 'A WArrior / dosen't HAVE / to be ANYbody'. The duplication itself reads as a credo the author wanted fixed in place.