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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Proletarian
Brash
Theorem
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Murphy

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