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Writing is fifty years behind painting.
Brion Gysin
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Brion Gysin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1916
Born: January 19
Died: 1986
Died: July 13
Choreographer
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Taplow
Buckinghamshire
John Clifford Brian Gysin
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