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Time passes slowly. Nobody says a word, everyone lost in quiet reading. One person sits at a desk jotting down notes, but the rest are sitting there silently, not moving, totally absorbed. Just like me.

Haruki Murakami

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Haruki Murakami
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: January 12
Athletics Competitor
Essayist
Linguist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Kyōto
Murakami Haruki
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Rest
Desks
Time
Says
Passes
Like
Word
Slowly
Reading
Notes
Jotting
Moving
Totally
Silently
Everyone
Sitting
Absorbed
Lost
Quiet
Sits
Persons
Nobody
Desk

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