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If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.

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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
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Lancaster
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