Valerie and I devoted Friday to cataloguing our developing library for religious studies. We anticipated it would take about two hours of one person reading titles and authors and the other typing. In true form, it took us more like four or five hours, with a lunch break for Chinese and Magnum bars in the middle of the day. As we always do, we had a good time as we worked, particularly as I stumbled over exotic names or Valerie misheard.
Here was one such goof:
Hope: The Message of John. It's a commentary.
Valerie: Oh, by John Stott?
Hope: No, by Bruce Milne.
Valerie: But it's John, right?
Hope: No, it's Bruce.... Oh, wait, I get what you mean. Yes, it's the book of John.
Valerie: It's "The Book of John?" I thought it was the Message of John?
Pause for a deep breath as we both giggle outrageously at our confusion over such a simple title.
Hope: The Message of John by Bruce Milne, which is a commentary on the biblical book of John. Done.
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