Ok, my two favorite wacky customer questions of the Christmas
season:
"Do you have an English version of the Hebrew bible?"
"Well, we have many English bibles with just the Old Testament."
"No! There's mistakes in those translations!."
((Which led me to wonder if I should point out that there might be
in the item he was looking for, if we carried such a thing. I sent him
to Harvard Square and didn't muddy the waters by talking about
Aramaic versions of the bible. He didn't want a copy of the Torah,
either, btw.))
And.....
"Can you look up a book by a quotation?"
Turned out she wanted a particular trandlation of the Roman
writer Ovid's Metamorphoses and none of the five editions
we carried matched a quotation she had written down in
her notebook..which btw the was was full of quotations.
Diana would have gotten a hoot of out those!
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