Mr Ajami did not even recite it in public, but just "to his colleagues and friends inside an apartment", he adds.

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They can recite it in their sleep.

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And while I can read from the "Haggadah" in English (my language skills have improved somewhat since I was first called upon to recite the Four Questions), it's not the same thing.

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It was a lot of lines, and I don't remember so much of it but, like, if you said it to me, I could probably then recite the entire scene top to bottom.

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In hindsight, it was like asking an air traffic controller to recite a chapter of Shakespeare during the Heathrow rush hour.

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The sorority email is amusing when Michael Shannon reads it on Funny Or Die or when you think of it as a great dark comedy monologue for Parker Posey to recite.

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