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Letters: A Novel

by John Barth

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Ian "Marvin" Graye said: " A LITTLE SOMETHING TO RELIEVE THE TEDIOCRITY:

A Tale of Two Fallen Men Interred
[After Andrew Burlingame Cook VI]
(Apologies to an Unknown Limericist)

Though some think I should be deterred,
Let me recall this Roman lore
To which you might not be privy
(Eve ...more "

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