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Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.
Jasper Fforde
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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
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I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years, she announced with some small sense of achievement. I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
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