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Friday, March 2, 2012

Book Beginnings on Friday #6

This week I started reading The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan as part of the Reading to Know Book Club. There's sort of two beginnings in this, an author's note (entitled "The Author's Apology") and then the start of The Pilgrim's Progress. This is the beginning of the author's note.


When at the first I took my Pen in hand
Thus for to write; I did not understand
That I at all should make a little Book
In such a mode; Nay, I had undertook
To make another, which almost done,
Before I was aware I this begun.

This is most definitely Old English, which I love reading. "The Author's Apology" is only a couple of pages long and is pretty funny in places and profound in others. It's a great intro to Christian's journey.