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📚 'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience' (2023) and I rose up, and knew that I was tired, and continued my journey
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My book has been published. A very very happy day.
'Gerard Manley Hopkins's Poetics of Anxiety and Transience'
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Shakespeare in his prime.
How can any one mind achieve so much over a span of time so brief?
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Harold Bloom on the importance of reading and memorizing great poetry.
He recites from memory a part of what is probably the greatest anonymous poem in the language, 'Tom o' Bedlam,' perhaps written by Shakespeare himself.
God Bless you Harold Bloom.
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'I think that unless you read deeply and in your own interest; unless you explore what is most profound in what has come before you, then you never will get down to recesses of your own self ... and most deeply you never will heal the self'
Harold Bloom
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At the end of his 'Roger Scruton Lecture,' Peter Hitchens recites The Second Collect for Peace. A truly moving moment, worth every second of one's time.
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'The old churches of England are the story of England. They alone remain islands of calm in the seething roar of what we now call civilization. They are not backwaters but strongholds. A church is not just an old building but a living building.'
~ Sir John Betjeman
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King Charles III reciting Gerard Manley Hopkins' poem 'God's Grandeur.'
Magnificent.
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Sir Laurence Olivier reciting Shakespeare's Sonnet 116.
It's quite amazing to observe how each word he recites comes as naturally as the leaves to a tree.
'Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.'
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'We have exiled beauty; the Greeks took arms for it.'
Albert Camus
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@Mr_John_Oxley
This sadly spills over into other areas of life. Unfortunately reading has come to signify in this illiterate, book-hating society, a form of laziness and, as you point out, anti-social behaviour. If so, I happily proclaim myself lazy and anti-social.
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Dostoevsky knew a thing or two about tyranny.
'Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast.'
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Sir Anthony Hopkins reciting WB Yeats' poem 'Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.'
The clip is from the movie '84 Charing Cross Road.' A must-watch if books play a significant role in your life.
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'In the long term, though, literature will resist levelling and revert to hierarchy. This isn't the decision of some snob of a belletrist. It is the decision of Judge Time, who constantly separates those who last from those who don't.'
~ Martin Amis
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@Blaatimmen
@IntrovertProbss
Unamuno's poem comes to mind.
'It is night, in my study.
The deepest solitude; I hear the steady
shudder in my breast
—for it feels all alone,
and blanched by my mind—
and I hear my blood
with even murmur
fill up the silence.'
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Exceptional delivery of the famous lines from 'Hamlet' by the great Richard Burton.
'I have of late ... lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory ...'
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Peter Hitchens on the most dangerous idea in human history:
"It remains the belief that Jesus Christ was the son of God and rose from the dead ... it turns the universe
from a meaningless chaos into a designed place in which there is justice and there is hope.'
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'Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can.'
~ Harold Bloom
Advice to live by.
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'Truly fine poetry must be read aloud ... If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.'
JL Borges
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Lawrence Durrell's 'The Alexandria Quarter.'
This will make for great summer reading.
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Borges, who was an almost obsessive buyer of books once wrote something I can very much relate to: 'What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.'
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@PrisonPlanet
As soon as I woke up and saw the media going on about a fly on Pence's head, I knew he must have steamrolled Kamala Harris.
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"Those culture where children do not learn by heart are destroyed, are destroyed in past and future. What you do not know by heart, you do not love; that is what the word by heart means. What you know by heart no one can take away from you."
~ George Steiner
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Simple pleasures of life. Reading on the train.
Build more railways, fewer motorways. The only way to bring civilization back to life.
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Harold Bloom talking about and reciting a part of Wallace Stevens's 'The Auroras of Autumn.'
The days of arctic effulgence are upon us.
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@ClarkeMicah
@BrendanQuantock
I cannot rid my mind of Siegried Sassoon's haunting last stanza from the poem 'Suicide in the Trenches.'
'You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.'
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A country where I live is introducing new draconian measures, one of them being the enforcement of mask-wearing outdoors (which makes me infinitely depressed), so I decided to re-read this powerful article by Peter Hitchens, which almost makes me weep.
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"Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
~ Leo Tolstoy
Today is the birthday of the great Count.
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Perhaps not Cormac McCarthy's best novel, but this passage from 'Child of God' is always with me.
'He had resolved himself to ride on for he could not turn back and the world that day was as lovely as any day that ever was and he was riding to his death.'
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@Paracelsus1092
People nowadays have no genuine relationship to music. It is to them a mere background sound which fills the void that overwhelms their everyday existence. Not having the ability to play instruments plays a large role in that, as does a lack of proper aesthetic education.
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Southern Gothic at its best.
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@yanisvaroufakis
Let us not forget about the children whose hopes and dreams are being incinerated by the cold machinery of war in front of their very eyes. The world they have known, by no means perfect, irrevocably changed, the portals of a life they could have lived forever closed unto them.
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Peter Hitchens' voice is getting more and more soothing as he grows in age. Someone should get him to read and record the collected works of T. S. Eliot, A. E. Housman, and some other great works of English literature.
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From Peter Hitchens' 'Roger Scruton Lecture.'
What the real conservative party should be fighting for. Powerful and with truth ringing in every syllable of these words.
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By far the best, most erudite commentary on and reading of English Romantic poetry I have ever read.
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'Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature ... consists in his longing to realize himself in another.'
~ Octavio Paz
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"You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me."
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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I often imagine how wonderful it would be to meet some of you in a proper dim-lit oak-furnished English pub and engage in conversations about literature, art, and the wonders of beauty.
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Very good news. My new book on GM Hopkins - PhD dissertation published as a book - is almost ready to hit the presses!
Truly excited. It has been a long process, but the effort has been worthwhile.
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"Ah! people need to rise early, to see the sun in all his splendour, for his brightness seldom lasts the day through. The morning of day and the morning of life are but too much alike."
~ Charles Dickens
Painting: JMW Turner, "Norham Castle, Sunrise"
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'You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important.'
~ James Baldwin
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"I love all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we see
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be."
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Julian and Maddalo"
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Peter Hitchens in today's column. He is absolutely right about our overdependence on motorcars.
I'll believe the political elites are serious about global warming when they'll start constructing new or reopening old railways lines and build fewer highway monstrosities.
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''To read great books does not mean one becomes 'bookish'; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of Shakespeare, of the luminous wisdom of Goethe, actually passes into the personality of the reader ...'
JC Powys
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'Literature is a war against cliché ... People who use these mouldering novelties like - Seen it. Done it. Got the t-shirt. He went ballistic. I don't think so. Hello. - these are dead words. What cliché is is heard writing, heard thinking, and heard feeling.'
~ Martin Amis
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'Talk not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me.'
Gregory Pack as Ahab.
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'If you don’t know how to read properly, and if you do not read or absorb the best that has been thought and said, then you will never learn to think properly. And if you don’t know how to think properly, then you get the disaster of our current society.'
~ Harold Bloom
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'My life is as simple as I can make it. Work all day, cook, eat, wash up, telephone, hack writing, drink, television in the evenings. I almost never go out.'
~ Philip Larkin
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Harold Bloom reciting AE Housman's "Into the heart an air that kills." It is a poem he recites when Charlie Rose asks him what poem does he think will be in his heart when he draws his last breath.
There is also on youtube a moving video of Peter Hitchens reciting the same poem.
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@ClarkeMicah
has likewise made powerful arguments in defence of learning poetry by heart. I wish people would heed his and professor Bloom's words.
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'Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity. The Greeks had a beautiful word for vulgarity; they called it apeirokalia, lack of experience in things beautiful. Liberal education supplies us with experience in things beautiful.'
~ Leo Strauss
🎨J. Vermeer, 'The Music Lesson'
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'Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain,
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.'
~ AE Housman
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A pleasant, poignant read in these extremely dark times. Peter Hitchens on the tenacious if ebbing mystique of Oxford.
"Oxford grows stories as other places grow apples or mushrooms. It produces more melancholy than it can consume locally."
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Is there any public place left where you are not harangued by noise? Horrendous music everywhere, in public squares, malls, public transportation, elevators. One of the greatest condemnations of the modern society is its addiction to noise, its complete inability to be quiet.
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Lawrence Durrell’s first school, St. Josephs College of Darjeeling, North Point, West Bengal, India, with the Himalayas behind.
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"My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. ... my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely."
~ Franz Kafka
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@RyanChandlerTV
Reminds me of Peter Hitchens refusing to take the buttock at 'Rhodes Must Fall' demonstration in Oxford.
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Peter Hitchens in today's column.
"Any sort of mockery or criticism of the authoritarian state we are building on the basis of virus-fighting is now treated as a wicked heresy. Voice such doubts and you will be falsely accused ... of being a crazed ‘anti-vaxxer’."
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Ten favourite poems with no repeat poets.
It's almost an impossible task to pick just ten, but here are the ten I simply couldn't do without.
Please share some of your lists.
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Yukio Mishima on why heroic death is no longer a possibility in a modern society.
'Rilke writes somewhere that modern man can no longer die a dramatic death. He dies in a hospital room, like a bee inside a honeycomb cell. That's how I recall it, at least.'
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'I love peace and quiet, Krestyan Ivanovich ... I keep to myself and as far as I can see I don't depend on anyone. I also go for walks, Krestyan Ivanovich."
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky," The Double"
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Peter Hitchens' beautiful and eloquent elegy on 'The Book of Common Prayer.' As ever, he summons up remembrance of important things.
'Please look after this book. Though England has largely forgotten it, the whole round world still has need of it.'
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Julian Bream's off-the-cuff performance of JS Bach's Prelude in C minor, BWV 999.
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Harold Bloom and Anthony Burgess, immersed in a spirited Fundador symphony.
He said, 'Bloom, is that you? What have you got in that paper bag?' I said, 'Improbable as it may seem, it is a bottle of Fundador.' He said, 'There is a God, this proves it, hand it over immediately.'
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Tolkien could describe a battle.
'Through the throat of one huge leader Aragorn passed his sword with a thrust; with a great sweep Boromir hewed the head off another. Beside them Gimli stood with his stout legs apart, wielding his dwarf-axe. The bow of Legolas was singing.'
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Dostoevsky scarily prescient about the times we are at this present moment living and moving through. Enlightenment turning into a piecemeal degradation of man's volition, logarithms rendering man perniciously free from the responsibility and the need to be and act decently.
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'One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.'
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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'Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.'
~ Lionel Trilling, from 'Liberal Imagination'
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Dostoevsky on unending merits of learning poetry by heart.
'Having learnt a poem, he will also learn the idea
and attitude, and as this attitude is true, it will
abide in his soul all his life long.'
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'And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'
~ Dylan Thomas, 'Do not go gentle into that good night'
Recited by Sir Anthony Hopkins.
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There are little pockets of beauty hidden in the world. They are worth looking for and exploring. Surrounded as we are by the sea of sadness, anguish, and tragedy.
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@arisroussinos
Don't forget about Gustav Mahler's hut in Maiernigg, whereto he retreated from 1900 to 1907, completing there his 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th and parts of 8th Symphony.
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Having read both Epictetus and Epicurus, I have come to see cows as representing the highest and noblest principles embodied in these respective philosophies: Eudaimonia (contentment), ataraxia (imperturbability), apatheia (freedom from passion), eupatheiai (good feelings).
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"Already the iron door of the north
Clangs open: birds, leaves, snows
Order their populations forth,
And a cruel wind blows."
~ Stanley Kunitz, "End of Summer"
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@DouglasKMurray
The Conservative party is anything but conservative, utterly indistinguishable from its left-wing challengers. It should be voted out of existence and scattered on the dustbin of history; that is, alas, impossible in a country where people vote by their tribal instincts.
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This is absolute peak landscape painting.
It was painted by Johannes Vermeer, depicting a view of the Dutch city of Delft from a high vantage point, looking out over the city's canals and buildings. The use of light and colour is masterful.
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I am really enjoying Camus's collection of essays. Beautifully written, such great descriptions of different places, such as Algiers, the modulations of the human soul, solitude and loneliness, of the quiet of the sea and siesta, of the idea he found in the streets of his time.
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Afternoon tea with a biscuit is peak life.
Henry James was absolutely right in saying that 'there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.'
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In praise of leisure.
A nail on the head by HD Thoreau.
'This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no sabbath.'
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I cannot rid my mind of these first couple of verses from Auden's poem on Yeats's death. It's incredible how they set the stage for the rest of the poem atmosphere-wise.
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"Emerson's axiom that good books are a substitute for the best university still seems to me accurate, and I am convinced ... that one can become an excellent philosopher, historian, literary philologist, lawyer ... without ever having gone to university."
~ Stefan Zweig
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"Oh, imagination, the greatest treasure of mankind, the inexhaustible spring at which both the artist and the scholar come to drink, remain with us even though acknowledged and revered by the few."
~ Franz Schubert
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'I can add colours to the chameleon,
Change shapes with Proteus for advantages,
And set the murderous Machiavel to school.
Can I do this, and cannot get a crown?
Tut, were it farther off, I'll pluck it down.'
William Shakespeare
Performed by Ralph Fiennes,
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"I asked for so little from life and life denied me even that. A beam of sunlight, a field, some peace and quiet and a mouthful of bread, not to feel the knowledge of my existence weight too heavily on me, to demand nothing of others and have them demand nothing of me."
Pessoa
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"Sunday, 19 July, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life."
~ Franz Kafka
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~ Pieter Bruegel the Elder, "Winter Landscape with Ice-skaters and Bird-trap" (1565)
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Just read Peter Hitchens' blogpost on his debating opponent, the late Howard Marks. It proves one needn't see eye to eye with other people in order to respect them and treat them in a gentlemanly manner. A moving account of their acquaintanceship.
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@washingtonpost
It's downright tragic to witness former news giants having been reduced to the vacuous purveyors of clickbaity titles.
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This is what being possessed by poetry truly means.
Harold Bloom reciting a portion from Wallace Stevens' 'The Auroras of Autumn.'
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