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From a NYT profile of Lee Child<\/a>:<\/p>\n

He is the sort of person who carefully outlines his replies, explaining that there are three reasons for this or two causes of that, and he has a mind that\u2019s a midden of trivia. He knows why watches in ads are always set at 8 minutes past 10, for example (too complicated to explain), and while watching the Britney Spears Pepsi commercial during the Super Bowl a few years ago, he saw instantly how \u201cPepsi Cola\u201d is an anagram for \u201cEpiscopal\u201d and \u201cBritney Spears\u201d an anagram for \u201cPresbyterians.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From a NYT profile of Lee Child: He is the sort of person who carefully outlines his replies, explaining that there are three reasons for this or two causes of that, and he has a mind that\u2019s a midden of trivia. 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