Shakespeare for the Surprised

Ok this really has nothing to do with Shakespeare at all, other than the fact that in talking with Dr. Burton about provenance, which is trying to track down and prove the origin of ancient artifacts, like what we're pretending to do with these lost plays, he mentioned the story of Mark Hofmann. What a crazy guy! He was a big time forger that focused a lot of his forgery on forging documents from Church History that make the church look bad, like the Salamander letter that was a different version of how Joseph Smith obtained the plates. And he was successful for a long time. But I just wanted to say that he is, to me, an awesome example of how no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing. Despite what the Wikipedia article said, Mark Hofmann did not permanently impair the progression of the LDS Church. Mark Hofmann is no more than a bug on a wind shield that maybe made kind of a messy and annoying splat; and like the effect of the bug/windshield encounter, I fear much more for the bug than the windshield.