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 typescript of Correction, nearly byte-identical to page 272. The author re-typed the page as if unsure the first version was final. The duplication itself is evidence that this was the argument he wanted preserved.