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},
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"ref": "1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 15",
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"name": "cog"
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"text": "He interrupts people, and he is not interested in anything except what concerns him and his brother. He is a nudnick!"
},
{
"ref": "1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 15",
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