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I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
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