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The Ecstasy of Influence, by Jonathan Lethem

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A plagiarism

February 2007 Issue [Article] The Ecstasy of Influence Adjust Share A plagiarism by Jonathan Lethem , All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. . . . —John Donne love and theft Consider this tale: a cultivated man of middle age looks back on the story of an amour fou , one beginning when, traveling abroad, he takes a room as a lodger. The moment he sees the daughter of the house, he is lost. She is a preteen, whose charms instantly enslave him. Heed

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