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Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault & Derrida deserve some fault here, too.

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Walter Kirn
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: August 3
Novelist
Writer
Akron
Ohio
Fault
Faults
Deserve
Maybe
Language
Given
Foucault
Derrida
Obsession

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