Are the prostitutes nothing a machine readable transcription Walt Whitman Kenneth M. Price Ed Folsom Transcription and encoding Andrew Jewell Kenneth Price Brett Barney Nick Krauter Lisa Renfro Heather Morton Nicole Gray Ashlyn Stewart The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities University of Iowa University of Nebraska-Lincoln The National Endowment for the Humanities The United States Department of Education 2004 The Walt Whitman Archive
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 duk.00889 This manuscript was probably written between 1850 and 1855 when Whitman was composing his first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass. It includes a draft of a line from the third poem in that edition, eventually titled "To Think of Time."

This line is a draft of a line from the third poem of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately titled "To Think of Time": "The prostitute is not nothing . . . . the mocker of religion is not nothing as he goes" (1855, p. 68). The line does not appear in the final version of the poem.

The words "attraction of gravity" in this manuscript appear in two contexts in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. The closest in meaning to its use in this manuscript is in the poem later titled "Great Are the Myths": "It cannot be varied by statutes, any more than love, pride, the attraction of gravity, can" (1855, p. 251). "Great Are the Myths" was ultimately shortened to a few lines and published as "Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night" in the 1881 Leaves of Grass.

 Whitman, Walt You lusty and graceflu [sic] youth! you are great Between 1850 and 1855 MS 4 to 11 (Volume 11) Trent Collection of Whitmaniana, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University Transcribed from a digital image of the original manuscript. On the back of this leaf is a partial draft of the final poem in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, ultimately titled "Great Are the Myths." regularized name for infrastructure tweaked wording of work note for "Youth, Day, Old Age, and Night" edited title, idno updated image names added inline relations information corrected corrected divided text into separate files, corrected converted, added schematron declaration Added third digit to leaf numbers Corrected Updated markup of gap and unclear elements Addition of Date and Work Markup Blessed Edited Revised, checked Encoded Transcribed Are the prostitutes nothing? Are the mockers of religion nothing? ? Does the light or heat pick out? Does the attraction o of gravity pick out? (In remarks on myself What they say of him —he was just like other men—he shall not be singled out. —one of the common