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These are ideas. I could say that they just came to me, but it would be more accurate to say that I went to them. Ideas - and new connections between ideas - lead you away from commonly held perceptions of reality. Ideas lead you out here. Ideas lead you into the darkness.

Dave Sim

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Dave Sim
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 17
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City of Hamilton
David Victor Sim
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