Date: August 2, 2004
So say you're reading a book. What's the difference between an Introduction, a Preface, and a Foreword?
According to Mental Floss Magazine, not much. An Introduction will usually tell the reader about the subject matter in the book. A Preface will usually talk about what the book means, and how it will affect your life, or maybe how it affected the life of the author or the person writing the Preface -- it's not always the same person, you know. A Foreword most often talks about what inspired the book in the first place. And any of the three might acknowledge those individuals who helped the author write or edit the book.
Many publishers take the tack that a Foreword is written by the author of the book, while a Preface is written by an outside guest commentator.
This week I'm going to take a quick look at the little things in life I've occasionally spent some brain power wondering about. You know, when you're waiting for a traffic signal, or at the doctor's office, or right before you drift off to sleep ... not any sort of major brain power, mind you, but a trickle or two.
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TOP 10 SIGNS YOU NEED TO READ THE BIBLE MORE OFTEN
10. You need to check the Table of Contents every time a scripture is referenced during church.
9. You think Abraham, Isaac & Jacob was a hit song by Dion.
8. You open your bible to the Gospel of Luke only to discover a Savings Bond ... from World War II.
7. Your favorite Old Testament patriarch is Hercules.
6. Your favorite verse is "Cleanliness is next to godliness."
5. You become frustrated because no matter how hard you look, you can't find any mention of Charlton Heston.
4. You catch your son reading Song of Solomon and demand, "Who gave you this stuff??!"
3. You think the Minor Prophets worked in a quarry.
2. You keep falling for it every time the preacher asks you to turn to First Condominiums.
AND THE NUMBER ONE SIGN YOU NEED TO READ THE BIBLE MORE OFTEN?
1. The kids ask too many questions about your bedtime story, "Jonah the Shepherd Boy and His Ark of Many Colors."
[firstIMPRESSIONS via Kim Quiggle's Cup O'Cheer; mildly edited by Mark Raymond]
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WORD for YOUR DAY: The opposite of the words listed above might be the "epilogue," sometimes spelled without the letters u and e at the end. An epilogue is the short concluding section at the end of the book (or film), further tying up any loose ends or revealing the future of the characters in the story. (Sometimes also called an "Afterword.")
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