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And put away in your thoughts
this other thing I tell you,

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what I dreamed in
radio speech and what

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I record as actually happened.

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I tell you my good intentions,
but I failed for reasons

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outside my control.

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I obeyed the messenger
but disobeyed my father

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when I returned to the field.

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The paradoxical position
I've been placed in

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was relieved when my
father believed me.

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I left the field.

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Was I relieved to be relieved
of the labor of the day?

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And went to the place where
the messenger told me.

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The village, the county,
the state, the land form,

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and the compass
direction are given.

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Form the image in
your mind, plates.

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A stone box is discussed.

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Its edges, where it was
visible from the ground,

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how it was buried,
I take you there

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and show you how I removed its
contents using a primitive tool

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and the laws of physics.

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I make a guess about how
the stones were formed.

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After a very long time, I
obtained the plates and all

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the needed accoutrements.

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I relate the
significance of the date,

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month, year, and its full
numbers spelled out, 1,827.

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On this year, I went, having
gone as usual, and received

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rules to follow, while they
remained in my possession.

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I am careful here to
be ambiguous about how

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others learned I had them.

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But after this was
done, I understood

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why I was given strict rules
to follow, every stratagem.

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The summer of 2005, I lived in
a trailer in the Sonoran Desert

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with a dog part Husky,
part German Shepherd.

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The season was hot and rainy.

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And occasionally,
we amused ourselves

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with digging shallow holes
in the shapes of our bodies

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to lie in and keep cool.

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During the course
of our digging,

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we happened upon some
fragments, which excited in me

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a playful desire to translate.

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Two other fragments
were brought to me

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by the mongrel, one of
which is a tale far more

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acceptable to the
public than anything

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I ever hoped to produce.

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I have reconstructed
the text that precedes

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based on these fragments.

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It is Joseph Smith's
WoO, Werke ohne Opuszahl.

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My title derived from a
German catalog listing

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used to denote musical
compositions surviving only

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as fragments.

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Translated from the double
helix of our relation, here

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recovered from the dirt,
as the voice of the people,

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speaking in the gift
of modern speech,

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as attested by the
grammar of affirmation

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is Joseph Smith's original.

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Let us attend.

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