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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.

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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
Autobiographer
Cartoonist
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Columbus
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James Grover Thurber
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