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Originality irritates so obscurely that people may have to evolve to scratch it.

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Steve Aylett
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: January 1
Author
Novelist
Satirist
Science Fiction Writer
Bromley
People
Obscurely
Irritates
Scratch
Scratches
Originality
Evolve
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