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If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.
Michael Ondaatje
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Michael Ondaatje
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: September 12
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