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Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
Pals
Laziness
Destroying
Slowly
According
Culture
Death
Typographical

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