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By Jack Joseph Smith

Sin The worst of all evils, no matter of Dante, and turning against a friend, is hating your own Alone, I have received both; so I know I can't even let hard as hell be ironic in my thought Wicked, dangerous, almost the calling of names for me Watch yourself all the way back to the beginning of love, when you see it festering, for it is among men that I know it, and am sure can happen among women too, it is, likewise The hurt and violence will finally kill you; while removel of thyself within the struggle, shifts the world Uncaring as God on high, or inside praying stone, try not to kill, help yourself as a ghost with a crutch, limp away, Inside And out, LET THEM LAUGH AT your Blood About Licking up you'll find your honor, They will MAKE the choice you'll find the wind in letting go

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

This page treats hatred of one's own as a deeper sin than open enemies, and it frames that hatred as spiritually and physically destructive.

The restored ending makes the warning more public and bodily: the speaker advises leaving while others laugh at blood, then replaces one wind line with `They will MAKE the choice` before retaining the final release into letting go.

Claude

'Sin' defines the worst evil not by doctrine but by inward betrayal: 'The worst of all evils, no matter of Dante, / and turning against a friend, is hating your / own.' The speaker claims hard-won authority -- 'Alone, / I have received both; / so I know' -- and watches hatred 'festering, ... among men that I / know it, and am sure can happen among women too.' His remedy is self-subtraction: 'while removel of thyself within the struggle, / shifts the world,' and the counsel to retreat -- 'try not to kill, help yourself as a ghost with a crutch, / limp away.' The restored handwritten continuation makes the ending public and bodily: 'Inside And out, LET THEM LAUGH / AT your Blood / About Licking up / you'll find your honor, / They will MAKE the choice / you'll find the wind in letting go.' The capitalized handwritten phrases are preserved per scan review, and a crossed duplicate 'wind' line was omitted in favor of the final uncrossed one. Spelling 'removel' is kept as written.