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David Foster Wallace's unfinished novel, The Pale King is going to be released in 2010. Little, Brown - his publisher - said it runs 'several hundred thousand words.' (Regular-size novels usually weigh in at about 75,000 words or so, I think.) The finished edition of Infinite Jest had 479,198 words, and is apparently the tenth-longest novel ever written.
Age 3: Freud sees his mother naked (1859).
Age 98: Rin Tin Tin dies in his Los Angeles home - age in human years: 14 (1932).
Age 30: Hitler grows a mustache (1919).
Age 53: Local writer and illustrator Eric Hanson publishes a compendium of mini-narratives detailing the origins, endings, and turning points in the lives of several historical figures, ages zero-100 (2008).