MONK'S 
TRANSLATION
 
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						A young monk arrives at the monastery.   
						
						
						He is assigned to helping the other monks in copying the 
						old 
						 
						
						
						canons and laws of the church by hand. 
						 
  
 
						
						
						He notices, however, that all of the monks are copying 
						from 
						 
						
						
						copies, not from the original manuscript.  
						 
						
						
						So, the new monk goes to the head abbot to question 
						this,  
						
						
						pointing out that if someone made even a small error in 
						the 
						 
						
						
						first copy, it would never be picked up!   
						
						
						In fact, that error would be continued in all of the
						
						 
						
						
						subsequent copies. 
						 
   
 
						
						
						The head monk, says, 'We have been copying from the 
						copies 
						 
						
						
						for centuries, but you make a good point, my son.' 
						 
 
						
						
						He goes down into the dark caves underneath the 
						monastery 
						
						 
						
						
						where the original manuscripts are held as archives in a 
						locked 
						 
						
						
						vault that hasn't been opened for hundreds of years. 
						
						
						Hours go 
						
						by and nobody sees the old abbot . . . 
						 
  
 
						
						
						So, the young monk gets worried and goes down to look 
						for him. 
						 
						
						
						He sees him banging his head against the wall and 
						wailing. 
						
						
						'We missed the 
						
						R 
						! 
						
						
						We missed the 
						
						R
						
						
						! 
						
						
						We missed the 
						
						R
						
						
						!'  
						
						
						His forehead is all bloody and bruised and he is crying 
						
						
						uncontrollably. 
						
						
						The young monk asks the old abbot, 'What's wrong, 
						father?'  
						
						
						With A choking voice, the old abbot replies, 'The word 
						was...   
						 
  
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