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Between just desserts and tragic irony we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

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Tom Stoppard
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: July 3
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