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A missing arm might ruin your symmetry. Personal asymmetry where I come from is a big taboo and brings great shame on the family and sometimes even the whole village. Do you then have to kill yourself over it or something? Goodness me, no! The family and village just have to learn to be ashamed--and nuts to them for being so oversensitive.

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Something
Bigs
Brings
Asymmetry
Learn
Shame
Symmetry
Might
Goodness
Taboo
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Kill
Ruin
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Missing
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Arms
Village
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Even
Family
Ashamed
Oversensitive

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