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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.

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Alberto Manguel
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 13
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