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The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.

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Paul Theroux
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: April 10
Film Writer
Novelist
Writer
Medford
Massachusetts
Paul Edward Theroux
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Drowning
Photographs
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