Correct Order

The writing that follows was actually written before this here which merely serves as an introduction to that which was already written. Why that should be of interest to anyone is not my business to know- the reader's inner life is his own- but that it may be of interest is, like all possible things, certainly possible.
"Yes but the mere fact of something being possible shouldn't be enough to make it a literary fact. The writer must choose the essential." A literary fact, you say? Does the mere fact of it being written make it a fact? Well, I suppose if being written isn't enough to make something a literary fact, then what is? But perhaps we better clarify things. Are individual words literary facts? At the atomic level, yes, the individual word lives. Look up a dictionary if you don't believe me. But what good is a word in isolation? "Celebrated", for example. On its own it's almost embarrassing. It requires a wider context, the fellowship of accompaniment.

Anyway, as said, what follows the beginning was already written before the first bit. "But how do we know?" says you, kindly assuming the existence of more than one of you. It's a good point, and unfortunately I am unable to respond in any kind of satisfactory manner. You don't and can't know what was written first, though why you should be bothered in the first place is itself interesting...well, not quite interesting. Perhaps you are interested because you are a little pedantic. A lot of people do very well in life precisely by virtue of their pedantry. Or at least they might. I hadn't really thought about it before now. To be honest I'm not even really thinking about it now. But to put your mind at ease, not that that's really in my power, if you want to know in what order this was written, well then you'll have to take my word for it. It poured itself out in precisely the order I alluded to earlier: what came later, which of course includes this, was actually written first, and that's not all. It's actually much more experimental again. The entire piece was originally written backwards, but subsequently inverted out of consideration and respect for the reader.