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Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order
Tom Stoppard
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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
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