MS-UoR-1477-1

[0053] and was it then was it then

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[0033] was ^{that the time} you began ^{last infirmity} not to know
yourself from Adam began trying
not to know yourself from Adam
no idea who it was saying what
you were saying whose ^skull it was
you were pent up in whose ashes
etc. had you the way you were was
that the time or was that another time

[0033] sitting there with the portraits of
the dead [⁁]^{black with antiquity and the dates on the frame in case you got the century wrong} not believing it was you
till they put you out in the rain
at closing time [0036] and you went the
old rounds trying how that would
work how never having

[0036] been would work the old rounds
trying to turn you
into it ^{tottering & muttering all over the parish} till the words dried up and
the head dried up & the legs dried up
whosever they were or
it ^gave up ^whoever it was

[0040] that time you took shelter from the
rain in the Public Library always
winter then always raining shelter
from the [⁁]^{cold &} rain in the Public Library
and

[0033] put you out in the rain
at closing time
or whosever they
were

[0056] born & died in no time
at a rather old age
[0036] locked it up whatever it
was