Roth was confused, and so he did what any giant of the American literary scene can do in these circumstances, and wrote a lengthy open letter to Wikipedia in the New Yorker (from which the above quotation is taken).

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There is also the famous scene from the movie, Saving Private Ryan, in which General Marshall reads the letter from Abraham Lincoln to Mrs.

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