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Undertoad · 02-03-2009, 06:58 AM

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DanaC was reading an article about a book written in the 1600s by imprisoned preacher John Bunyan, called 'Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners'. The article mentions some books that Bunyan's wife had, one of which was called

Arthur Dent's The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven

It turns out that Arthur Dent was a real person: an early Puritan author. DanaC was struck by how the absolute genius of how The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which the central character is named Arthur Dent, is actually an outstanding pun on this earlier tome.

Me too. Douglas Adams is my hero.

02-03-2009, 06:58 AM	#2
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	re-parse DanaC was reading an article about a book written in the 1600s by imprisoned preacher John Bunyan, called 'Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners'. The article mentions some books that Bunyan's wife had, one of which was called Arthur Dent's The Plaine Mans Path-way to Heaven It turns out that Arthur Dent was a real person: an early Puritan author. DanaC was struck by how the absolute genius of how The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which the central character is named Arthur Dent, is actually an outstanding pun on this earlier tome. Me too. Douglas Adams is my hero.