TLIT-3

Dilogo de un desesperado con su alma

(pap. Berln 3024)
Texto jeroglfico: R.O.Faulkner, JEA 42 (1956) 22 - 26
Traduccin: AEL I, 163 - 169

x+1.

(x+1)

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your in order to say

[their tongue] is not partial

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(3)

payment;

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their tongue is not partial.
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I opened my mouth to my ba,

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to answer what it had said:
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(5)

This is too great for me today,

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my ba will not converse with me!

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It is too great for exaggeration,
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(7)

it is like deserting me!

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My ba shall not go,
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it shall attend to me in this!
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in my body with a net of cord.

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It shall not be able to flee on the day of pain!

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Look, my ba misleads me
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I do not listen to it

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drags me toward death
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before <I> come to it,
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(13)

casts <me> on fire so as to burn me!

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It shall be near me on the day of pain!
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It shall stand on that side as does a ...

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It is he who comes forth, he has brought himself.

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My ba, too ignorant

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to still pain in life,
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leads me toward death

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before I come to it!
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Sweeten the West for me!

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Is that difficult?
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Life is a passage;
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trees fall.
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Tread on the evil,
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put down my misery!

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May Thoth judge me, he who appeases the gods!

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May Khons defend me, he who writes truly!

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May Re hear my speech, he who calms the sun-bark!

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May Isdes defend me in the sacred hall!

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For my suffering is too heavy a burden

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(29)
to

be borne by me.
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May it please that the gods repel my bodys secrets!

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What my ba said to me:

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Are you not a man?
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Are you not alive?
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What do you gain by complaining about life

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(33)

like a man of wealth?

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I said: I will not go
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(34)

as long as this is neglected.

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Surely, if you run away,
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you will not be cared for.

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Every criminal says:
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I shall seize you.

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Though you are dead, your name lives.

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Yonder is the place of rest, the hearts goal.

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The West is a dwelling place,
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(39)

a voyage

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If my ba listens to me
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(40)
without

malice,
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its heart in accord with me, it shall be happy.

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I shall make it reach the West like one who is in his tomb,
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whose burial a survivor tends.
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I shall make a shelter over your corpse,

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so that you will make envious another ba in weariness.

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I shall make a shelter it shall not be freezing

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so that you will make envious another ba which is hot.

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I shall drink water at the pond
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over which I made shade,
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so that you will make envious another ba that hungers.

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But if you lead me toward death in this manner,

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you will not find a place on which to rest in the West.

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Be patient, my ba, my brother,

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until my heir comes, one who will make offerings,

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who will stand at the tomb on the day of burial,

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having prepared the bier on the graveyard.
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My ba opened its mouth to me,
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(56)

to answer what I had said:

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If you think of burial, it is heartbreak.
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It is the gift of tears by aggrieving a man.
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It is taking a man from his house,
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casting (him) on high ground.

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You will not go up to see the sun.
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Those who built in granite,

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who erected halls in excellent tombs of excellent construction

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when the builders have become gods,

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their offering-stones are desolate,
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as if they were the dead who died on the riverbank

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for lack of a survivor.
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The flood takes its toll,
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the sun also.

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The fishes at the waters efge talk to them.
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Listen to me! It is good for people to listen.
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Follow the feast day, forget worry!

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A man plowed his plot.

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He loaded his harvest into a boat.
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He towed the freight.
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As his feast day approached,

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he saw rising the darkness of a north wind.

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Watching in the boat, as the sun went down,

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(he) came out with his wife and children

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and foundered on the lake infested at night with crocodiles.

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When at last he sat down, he broke out saying:

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I do not weep for that mother,

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for whom there is no coming from the West for another being-on-earth.
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I grieve for her children broken in the egg,

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who have seen the face of the Crocodile before they have lived.
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A man asked for an early meal.
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His wife said: It is for supper.
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He went outdoors to ... a while.

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When he came back to the house he was like another (person).

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His wife beseeches him and he does not listen to her.

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He ... heedless of the household.

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I opened my mouth to my ba,

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to answer what it had said:
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Lo, my name reeks; lo, more than carrion smell

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on summer days of burning sky.
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Lo, my name reeks; lo, more than a catch of fish

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on fishing days of burning sky.

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Lo, my name reeks; lo, more than ducks smell,

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more than reed-coverts full of waterfowl.
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Lo, my name reeks; lo, more than fishermen smell,

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more than the marsh-pools where they fish.

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Lo, my name reeks; lo, more than crocodiles smell,

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more than a shore-site full of crocodiles.

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Lo, my name reeks; lo, more than that of a wife

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about whom lies are told to the husband.

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Lo, my name reeks; lo, more than that of a sturdy child

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to belong to one who rejects him.

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Lo, my name reeks; lo, more than a kings town

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that utters sedition behind his back.

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To whom shall I speak today? Brothers are mean,
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the friends of today do not love.

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To whom shall I speak today? Hearts are greedy,

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everyone robs his comrades goods.

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<To whom shall I speak today?> Kindness has perished,

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insolence assaults everyone.
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To whom shall I speak today? One is content with evil,

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goodness is cast to the ground everywhere.

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To whom shall I speak today? He who should enrage men by his crimes
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he makes everyone laugh <at> his evildoing.

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To whom shall I speak today? Men plunder,

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everyone robs his comrade.

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To whom shall I speak today? The criminal is ones intimate,

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the brother with whom one dealt is a foe.

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To whom shall I speak today? The past is not remembered,

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now one does not help him who helped.

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To whom shall I speak today? Brothers are mean,

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one goes to strangers for affection.
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To whom shall I speak today? Faces are blank,

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everyone turns his face from his brothers.

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To whom shall I speak today? Hearts are greedy,
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no mans heart can be relied on.

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To whom shall I speak today? None are righteous,

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the land is left to evildoers.

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To whom shall I speak today? One lacks an intimate,

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One resorts to an unknown to complain.

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To whom shall I speak today? No one is cheerful,

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he with whom one walked is no more.

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To whom shall I speak today? I am burdened

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with grief for lack of an intimate.

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To whom shall I speak today? Wrong roams the earth,
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and ends not.

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Death is before me today <like> a sick mans recovery,

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like going outdoors after confinement.

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Death is before me today like the fragrance of myrrh,

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like sitting under sail on breeze day.
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Death is before me today like the fragrance of lotus,

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like sitting on the shore of drunkenness.

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Death is before me today like a well-trodden way,

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like a mans coming home from warfare.

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Death is before me today like the claring of the sky,

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as when a man discovers what he ignored.

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Death is before me today like a mans longing to see his home

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when he has spent many years in captivity.

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Truly, he who is yonder will be a living god,

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(143)

punishing the evildoers crime.

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Truly, he who is yonder will stand in the sun-bark,

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making its bounty flow to the temples.

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Truly, he who is yonder will be a wise man,

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not barred from appealing to Re when he speaks.

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What my ba said to me:

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Now throw complaint on the wood-pile,

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you my comrade, my brother!

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Whether you offer on the brazier,
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whether you bear down your life, as you say,
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love me here
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when you have set aside the West!

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But when it is wished that you attain the West,

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that your body joins the earth,
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(153)

I shall alight after you have become weary,

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(154)

and then we shall dwell together!

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(155)

Colophon: It is finished from beginning to end,

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as it was found in writing.