Epigraph
“Thus they went on till they came to about the middle of the Valley, and then Christiana said, ‘Methinks I see something yonder on the road before us, a thing of such a shape such as I have not seen.’ Then said Joseph, ‘Mother, what is it?’ ‘An ugly thing, Child, an ugly thing,’ said she. ‘But, Mother, what is it like?’ said he. ‘’Tis like I cannot tell what,’ said she. And now it was but a little way off. Then said she, ‘It is nigh.’”
“Pilgrim’s Progress,” Part II.