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Lisboa, 2003


- "It's a shame about you and me".
- "Do you know that poem of Marvell's?"
- "What poem?"
- "'It was begotten by desire upon impossibility'. That poem".
- "I thought it was 'despair'. 'Begotten by despair'..".
- "It is. It was. Both".

Philip Roth, Deception
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