The Perfect Crime, I'm Copying This Guy's Book

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I feel like plagiarism is a really specific... Yeah, yeah. As we talk about it, it's a 20th century invention after the modern notion of what copyright is. It kind of reminded me of how people do like pilgrimage, pill grimages for Anne of Green Gables locations. This book is part of our national identity, but we're also kind of embarrassed about this particular instance of it. The perfect crime. Well maybe here are some other books that she made when I'm copying it, I guess.

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