Celebrate
A new monk arrives to join the others copying ancient records. He notices that they're copying books by hand that had already been copied before.
He says, "Forgive me, but copying other copies by hand allows many chances for error. How do we know we aren't copying someone else's mistakes?"
The head monk says, "That is a good point, my son. I will take one of these new copies down to my vault and study it against the original document."
The old monk goes into the vault to study. The day passes, and it's getting late in the evening, and the other monks start to get worried about him, so one of them goes looking for him. As he's walking through the catacombs, he hears sobbing.
He says, "Holy Father?"
The sobbing gets louder as he gets closer. Finally he finds the old priest sitting at a table with both the new copy and the original ancient book in front of him.
He says, "Father, what's wrong?"
The old monk says, "The word is 'celebrate.'"
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