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I just assume I'm not invisible. I assume I'm wearing fluorescent clothes, and there's a million-dollar bounty going to the first driver who manages to hit me. And I ride on that assumption.

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Neal Stephenson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 31
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