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Friday, March 7, 2008 12:00 AM

Attention, all you memoir fabulists!

In light of recent scandals, we will now require arrest records and stool samples from all autobiographers. And can someone fact-check the Gospels?
By Louis Bayard

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  • Friday, March 7, 2008 07:23 AM

    Very funny...

    ... but Mark can hardly be blamed for not mentioning shepherds or the Magi, since Mark doesn't include any infancy narrative at all! (Mark goes straight to John the Baptist and picks up the story from there.)

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