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The protesters in Tahrir Square brought to mind a four-thousand-year-old story from Egypt that related a peasant’s search for equality. These events motivated me to accelerate my work on The Eloquent Peasant. I want to thank the protesters, and I wish them well.

For this work, I am indebted to the work of R. B. Parkinson.1 In fact, it would have been impossible for me to translate this story without his book. He has moved the Egyptian text from the cursive Hieratic Egyptian to the formal Hieroglyphic Egyptian. He has also given us notes on the texts. In short, he has done the basic text-critical work for the translator. I thank him.

I am also dependant on the work of John Wilson and on his understanding of this story. In addition, the translations by F. O. Faulkner and Miriam Lichtheim have been helpful.

I want to thank my wife, Jane, for her careful editing and for her encouragement. K. C. Hanson, my editor at Cascade Books, has helped me in many ways to complete this project. Thanks K. C.

1. R. B. Parkinson, The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant (Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1991).