Joseph Smith was so accustomed to dictating that he would occasionally lose himself in the process.
“& now I make an end of speaking concerning the things which I saw while
lI was carried away in the Spirit”
1 Nephi 14:30, The Handwritten Book of Mormon (West Valley City, UT: Dan Wees, September 2017), 41.
The correct word should have been writing, not speaking. Since Joseph was merely pretending to translate, he sometimes became so engrossed in the dialogue that he forgot he wasn’t speaking about himself. He modeled himself after Nephi—or at least the man he aspired to be.
