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In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.
Arthur Koestler
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Arthur Koestler
Age: 77 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 5
Died: 1983
Died: March 1
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In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
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