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Man has been thrown into the world. It had always made him think of Icarus and those other great tumblers, Ixion, Phaeton, Tantalus - all these jumpers without parachutes from a world of gods and heroes.
Cees Nooteboom
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Cees Nooteboom
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: July 31
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Den Haag
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