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Originally Posted by BigJohn
I have a stack of one book I wrote back in the second century which was my autobiography. I had a lot of fun back then. My name was Lucius Apuleius and the book was titled Metamorphoses.
If we ever meet up, ask me for a copy of the book.
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When I wrote my autobiography, I wrote the following to my son Faustinus
which is recorded in the preface of my autobiography.
And unto the Readers of this Book
THAT I to thee some joyous jests I will declare how one by hap
may show in gentle gloze, his humane figure lost,
And frankly feed thy bended eares And how in brutish formed shape,
with passing pleasant prose: his loathed life he tost.
So that thou daine in seemly sort And how he was in course of time
this wanton booke to view, from such a state unfold,
That is set out and garnisht fine, Who eftsoone turn'd to pristine shape
with written phrases new. his lot unlucky told.
What and who he was attend a while, and you shall understand that it was even I,
the writer of mine own Metamorphosie and strange alteration of figure.
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Hmmmmm, I did not know you could do double columns...... I learn
something new every day.