Getting Started (Continued)
C: Now, the book that I have in front of me happens
to be a second edition of the book. Probably most of yours are going to be
a third edition. The first paragraph will read a little bit differently.
Mine says: 'This is the
second edition of the book "Alcoholics Anonymous" which made
it's first appearance in April of 1939. More than 300,000 copies of the
first edition are now in circulation. '
But then my book says: (p. xi, par. 2) 'Because this
book has become the basic text for our Society and has helped such large
numbers of alcoholic men and women to recovery, there exist a sentiment
against any radical changes being made in it. Therefore, the first portion
of this volume, describing the A. A. recovery program, has been left
largely untouched... '
