>
>In the medieval era, monks copied manuscripts at a certain monastery in
>Ireland.  One day, a traveling bishop arrived, and he asked the monks their
>method of copying.  "We copy from the last copy," he was told.  "But you
>should be copying from the original.  What if an error was made at some
>point, and you have desecrated God's word by repeating this error?  I suggest
>you go into your vaults and copy from the originals."  So the best artist was
>sent deep into the vaults to examine original volumes.
>
>Well, he disappeared for a very long time.  Eventually, the other monks
>became concerned and they descended the stairs to the lower vault, in search
>of the missing monk.  There they found him, head down on a volume, weeping
>uncontrollably, his loud sobs nearly shaking the thick walls.
>
>"What is it?" they asked him.  "What makes you weep so?"
>
>"The word is 'celebrate,'" he responded.

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