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He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Humans
Intervals
Make
Random
Ones
Acting
Interesting
Stills
Still
Cleverest
Human
Retarded

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