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- THE NEW PSALMANAZAR is an exercise in necessary distraction. Its title honors the great fraud George Psalmanazar (1679-1763), who once convinced the world he was a native of Formosa. Most of us suspect we’re frauds; few of us will ever produce such memorable proof.
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