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I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

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Robert Wyatt
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: January 28
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Bristol
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Robert Ellidge Wyatt
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