I didn't realise just how easy it was to write a 'classic,' in the 17th Century.
It seems all you had to do, was read the Bible, underline all your favourite verses, then take all those quotations which will then make up a large percentage of your material, and then just weave, (or do the 17th Century equivalent of cutting and pasting) those texts into countless convoluted conversations with your characters.
Then you place those conversations against a backdrop of a journey that goes on forever-or does it just seem to? as they endlessly question and moralise and mope and meander their way forward-deploying the slowest pace that is humanly possible in eventually getting to the Celestial City, because Bunyan has to include every single last favourite verse.
Hard going.
If you are religiously inclined, much better to just read the Bible.
It seems all you had to do, was read the Bible, underline all your favourite verses, then take all those quotations which will then make up a large percentage of your material, and then just weave, (or do the 17th Century equivalent of cutting and pasting) those texts into countless convoluted conversations with your characters.
Then you place those conversations against a backdrop of a journey that goes on forever-or does it just seem to? as they endlessly question and moralise and mope and meander their way forward-deploying the slowest pace that is humanly possible in eventually getting to the Celestial City, because Bunyan has to include every single last favourite verse.
Hard going.
If you are religiously inclined, much better to just read the Bible.
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