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But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Maxwell
Demon
Communicate
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