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A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
Don DeLillo
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Don DeLillo
Age: 87
Born: 1936
Born: November 20
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To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity.
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World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.
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