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Oh, this beast? It's...perspicacious loris. 'Perspicacious' meaning 'wise or canny'. Get stuffed, Bovril said, then giggled. And it insults people, Telsa said. How peculiar.

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Scott Westerfeld
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 5
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Dallas
Texas
Scott David Westerfeld
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Wise
Canny
People
Giggled
Insults
Stuffed
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I have no formal training as a writer at all, not even a single English class in college.
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so pRetty i hAd to Eat hiM
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