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    Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave,
    While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save;
    But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave,
    His soul is marching on.

    --a verse by WW Pattton to the well-loved, and much played by me and learned by my from Gene Harris and so many others, to the tune of "John Brown's Body," which is played by Mr. Harris in G, but sung in Bb by the malevolent choristers in the dismal American movie *Inherit the Wind*, may their apples be sour in Hillsboro.

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    Quote Originally posted by Jizzelbin View post
    "He who sups with the devil must have a long spoon."

    --something biblical or something.
    Looks like an English proverb: http://www.special-dictionary.com/pr...erb/185204.htm

    If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
    Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
    Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
    Or lesser breeds without the Law—
    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
    Lest we forget—lest we forget!

    Kipling, "Recessional," Pt. 4

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    "Roubaud's fiction often suppresses the rigorous constraints of the Oulipo (while mentioning their suppression, thereby indicating that such constraints are indeed present), yet takes the Oulipian self-consciousness of the writing act to an extreme. "
    --some blurb about French mathematician and writer Jacques Roubaud, from here

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    For heathen heart that puts her trust
    In reeking tube and iron shard,
    All valiant dust that builds on dust,
    And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
    For frantic boast and foolish word—
    Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!

    Kipling, "Recessional," conclusion

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    "Oh, it's sweet to sweat through stables, sweet to empty kitchen slops,
    And it's sweet to hear the tales the troopers tell,
    To dance with blowzy housemaids at the regimental hops
    And thrash the cad who says you waltz too well."

    --from Kipling, "Gentlemen-Rankers" a rather good poet, I must say, perhaps should be read more often.

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    "[Anton Bruckner's] calendar for 1874 details the names of girls who appealed to him, and the list of such girls in all his diaries was very long. In 1880 he fell for a 17-year-old peasant girl in the cast of the Oberammergau Passion Play. His interest in young girls seems to have been motivated by his fear of sin; he believed that (unlike older women) he could be certain that he was marrying a virgin. His unsuccessful proposals to teenagers continued when he was past his 70th birthday."
    --anonymous, Wikipedia, "Anton Bruckner," retrieved 28-oct-2016, should have been titled "Bruckner: A Son of a Gun"

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    "...Then, after the storms of battle, were heard the calm words of peace spoken by the conquering nation, saying to the foe that lay prostrate at its feet: 'This is our only revenge — that you join us in lifting into the serene firmament of the Constitution, to shine like stars for ever and ever, the immortal principles of truth and justice: that all men, white or black, shall be free, and shall stand equal before the law.'" - James A. Garfield, 1880

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    "Whereas the ideology of charisma regards taste in legitimate culture as a gift of nature, scientific observation shows that cultural needs are the product of upbringing and education: surveys establish that all cultural practices (museum visits, concert-going, reading etc.), and preferences in literature, painting or music, are closely linked to educational level (measured by qualifications or length of schooling) and secondarily to social origin." -- Bourdieu, *Distinction*, tr. R. Lane

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    "...Give a little bit
    Give a little bit of your love to me
    I'll give a little bit
    I'll give a little bit of my love to you
    There's so much that we need to share
    So send a smile, and show you care

    I'll give a little bit
    I'll give a little bit of my life for you
    So give a little bit
    Give a little bit of your time to me
    See the man with the lonely eyes
    Oh, take his hand, you'll be surprised...."

    "Give A Little Bit," Supertramp

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    "It is ... an open question what the different styles of assholes are. This allows us to respect Aristotle’s wise maxim that we should not expect precision from a theory beyond what its subject matter will bear. If poetry is not math, neither is virtue and vice. Still less so is the wide variety of asshole vices. We thus proceed inductively, as Aristotle might." Aaron James, *Assholes: A Theory*

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    "I trust the time is nigh when, with the universal assent of civilized people, all international differences shall be determined without resort to arms by the benignant processes of civilization." - Chester Arthur, 1882

    If only!

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    "I've spent months preparing for this test and not you or any sergeant is going to push me around."
    --Peter Graves in *Killers From Space*

    BENIGANT???? Well,it's a free country, I guess. Still, that is one hell of a word. CAA is IMHO one of those "hollow-eyed" guilded-era presidents someone else described as such. Wonderful, fascinating time, but one of those times the US lacked charismatic leaders, except for on the fringes.
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    "If you take a life, do you know what you'll give?
    Odds are, you won't like what it is
    When the storm arrives, would you be seen with me
    By the merciless eyes I've deceived?

    I've seen angels fall from blinding heights
    But you yourself are nothing so divine
    Just next in line

    Arm yourself because no one else here will save you
    The odds will betray you
    And I will replace you
    You can't deny the prize; it may never fulfill you
    It longs to kill you
    Are you willing to die?

    The coldest blood runs through my veins
    You know my name...."

    Chris Cornell, "You Know My Name" (from Casino Royale)

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    "An example of the failure to habituate can be seen in persons who suffer from tinnitus (ringing in the ears). People who complain of having tinnitus seem to have problems habituating to auditory stimuli. Many people have ringing in their ears, and if they are placed in a quiet room, will report a buzzing or other sounds. However, people who chronically suffer from tinnitus have difficulty adapting to the noise (Bessman et al., 2009; Walpurger et al., 2003). Evidence also indicates that people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have difficulty habituating to many types of stimuli. This difficulty helps to explain why ordinary stimuli, such as the buzzing of fluorescent lights, can be distracting to a person with ADHD."
    --Sternberg, *Cognitive Psychology* 6th ed.

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    "We are not here today to bow before the representation of a fierce warlike god, filled with wrath and vengeance, but we joyously contemplate instead our own deity keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America and greater than all that have been celebrated in ancient song. Instead of grasping in her hand thunderbolts of terror and of death, she holds aloft the light which illumines the way to man's enfranchisement. We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected. Willing votaries will constantly keep alive its fires and these shall gleam upon the shores of our sister Republic thence, and joined with answering rays a stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man's oppression, until Liberty enlightens the world." - Grover Cleveland, dedication speech for the Statue of Liberty (October 28, 1886)

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    "So, I had my wife, who died, twenty-five years ago, but I have a daughter, and and a ... grandson....and....a granddaughter. So, this is enough."

    --NSlonimsky, *Perfect pitch*

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    Then felt I like some watcher of the skies[/]When a new planet swims into his ken;[/]Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes[/]He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men "

    --the physician JKeats, lampooning the rubes of his day in one of his little poems.

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    "There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy." - H.P. Lovecraft, 1920

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    Nice. To think I was making fun of somebody on FB for quoting Lovecraft -- I'm totally stealing that quote. Hell, HPL won't mind.

    In the spirit of gamesmanship, here's something from some text file I just saw again:

    "Now, I suggest that it is one thing to consider how we might some day [sic] realize a score, and it is quite another thing to perform the work. Surely I am not the only performer who has discovered that, as the moment of the concert approaches, performance decisions once so straightforward have a strange way of becoming obscure. Even if I have not merely treated the score as a kind of road map that guides me from the first to the last measure, even if I have tried to follow all the composer's markings to the letter, giving each phrase the shape and dynamic it calls for within its performance tradition, what have I done to ensure that I can recreate the complete work as if it were my own?"

    --Janet Schmalfeldt, "On the Relation of Analysis to Performance: Beethoven's Bagatelles Op. 126, Nos. 2 and 5," *J of Music Theory*, Vol. 29, No. 1 (Spring 1985) pp. 1-31.

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    "He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces." - Mark Twain

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    "In 2016, the word [cunt] was used by a judge in a British court: when a man was being sentenced to prison for breaching the terms of an ASBO in connection with using racist language, he is reported to have said to the judge that she was a "a bit of a cunt", to which the judge is reported to have replied "You're a bit of a cunt too.""

    --from Wikipedia, "Cunt"

    well, I was amused.

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    You'll like this, too: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.9cf3c2b0ac1e. The judge was later reprimanded.

    “You know something, this is going to be an interesting trial.” - Judge Bryant Durham Jr.

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    Action
    Revolution
    Killing
    Oratory
    Fantasy
    Fornication

    Samuel Z. "ARKOFF formula" for producing good movies.

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    "The dreamer, the unwoken fool.
    In dreams, no pain will kiss the brow.
    The love of ages fills the head,
    the days that linger there in prey of emptiness,
    of burned-out dreams.
    The minutes calling through the years.
    The universal dreamer rises up above his earthly burden,
    journeys to the dead of night,
    high on a hill in Eldorado...."

    Electric Light Orchestra, "Overture," Eldorado

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    "In a deep sense, E. coli and IBM know their respective worlds in the same way. Indeed, E. coli and IBM have each participated in the coevolution of entities which interact with and know one another." -- Stuart Kaufmann, "The Sciences of Complexity and 'Origins of Order'," Santa Fe Institute Working Paper 1991-04-021.

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    "I cannot always sympathize with that demand which we hear so frequently for cheap things. Things may be too cheap. They are too cheap when the man or woman who produces them upon the farm or the man or woman who produces them in the factory does not get out of them living wages with a margin for old age and for a dowry for the incidents that are to follow. I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth or shapes it into a garment will starve in the process." - Benjamin Harrison, 1891

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    "Bismarck owed his defeat to his contempt for mankind. He always slipped readily into the mistake of underrating the poweer of ideas, particularly the great revolutionary ideas of freedom and equality; hence the admiration which disillusioned idealists profess for him nowadays." AJP Taylor, *Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman*

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    "Anyone who loves the law or sausage should never see either made." - Otto von Bismarck (attrib).

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    I can't resist, I'm pretty sure somebody claimed Bismarck once said "you can do everything with a bayonet except sit on it." Yeah, Otto -- that's the only Bismarck I know, except maybe the person who made the doughnut. And I could be wrong about the quote.

    ETA here's my real quote from the bus this morning since my entire knowledge of Bismarck is pretty much exhausted by now, and my paperback is tucked safely back in its section at home: "This is how one calculates. Calculating is this. What we learn at school, for example. Forget this transcendent certainty, which is connected with your concept of spirit." Wittgenstein, *On Certainty* §47

    (for noobs like me, for future reference, the section symbol can be created using a compose key, followed by 's' and 'o')

    EETA ¶, supposedly called the "pilcrow" sign, would have been better, and is, for future reference, created by compose key + p + shriek ('!'). And the § symbol is supposedly called a "silcrow." That is some straight-up nerd shit, given that I've spent my entire adult life using these symbols very often, and didn't know all that typographical jazz.
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    Westley: Give us the gate key.
    Yellin: I have no gate key.
    Inigo Montoya: Fezzik, tear his arms off.
    Yellin: Oh, you mean this gate key!
    - The Princess Bride

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    "Where they from? --I don't know, everywhere? [...] --Waiting for somebody to push them around so they can show how tough they are." -- *The Wild One*, motion picture.

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    "Amid the din of party strife the people's choice was made, but its attendant circumstances have demonstrated anew the strength and safety of a government by the people. In each succeeding year it more clearly appears that our democratic principle needs no apology, and that in its fearless and faithful application is to be found the surest guaranty of good government. But the best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of purely partisan zeal and effort, and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen." - Grover Cleveland, First Inaugural Address, 1885

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    "The more narrowly we examine actual language, the sharper becomes the conflict between it and our requirement....The conflict becomes intolerable; the requirement is now in danger of becoming empty.--We have got on to slippery ice where there is no friction and so in a certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk: so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!"--Wittgenstein, *Philosophic. Invest.* §107

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    "...In an age of fops and toys,
    Wanting wisdom, void of right,
    Who shall nerve heroic boys
    To hazard all in Freedom’s fight,—
    Break sharply off their jolly games,
    Forsake their comrades gay,
    And quit proud homes and youthful dames,
    For famine, toil, and fray?
    Yet on the nimble air benign
    Speed nimbler messages,
    That waft the breath of grace divine
    To hearts in sloth and ease.
    So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
    So near is God to man,
    When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
    The youth replies, I can."

    "Voluntaries," Ralph Waldo Emerson (1863)

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    "Spinoza would say what the Christian says, and also something more. For him, all sin is due to ignorance; he would 'forgive them, for they know not what they do.' But he would have you avoid the limited purview from which, in his opinion, sin springs, and would urge you, even under the greatest misfortunes, to avoid being shut up in the world of your sorrow; he would have you understand it by seeing it in relation to its causes and as a part of the whole order of nature."
    --Bert Russell, Chapter on Spinoza from his (or "his"? dunno if he had "help" with his nearly illiterate, turgid prose or not from some sack hired by his publisher) *A Hist. of WestPhil*


    Changed mind to equally apropos: "Look at my hand. There's no beginning, and there's no end. You can always take another turn -- around the loop, over the knuckle." --probably close to what a hypnotizer says to a whore in the Corman movie *The Undead*
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    "War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed." - William McKinley

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    "It is true, and I have experienced it myself, that quick progress...with artistic pieces can engross a sensible composer so that he can sincerely and secretly delight in his own work. But through this self-love we are unwittingly led away from the true purpose of music, until we hardly think of others at all, although it is our goal to delight them." -- Johann Mattheson *Die kanonische Anatomie*

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    "Yes, you're quite right. I'm fed up with being treated like sheep. What's the point of going abroad if you're just another tourist carted around in buses surrounded by sweaty mindless oafs from Kettering and Boventry in their cloth caps and their cardigans and their transistor radios and their Sunday Mirrors, bomplaining about the tea - 'Oh they don't make it properly here, do they, not like at home' - and stopping at Majorcan bodegas selling fish and chips and Watney's Red Barrel and calamaris and two veg and sitting in their cotton frocks squirting Timothy White's suncream all over their puffy raw swollen purulent flesh 'cos they 'overdid it on the first day.'" - "Travel Agent," Monty Python's Flying Circus

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    "When Chekhov saw the long winter, he saw a winter bleak and dark and bereft of hope. Yet we know that winter is just another step in the cycle of life. But standing here among the people of Punxsutawney and basking in the warmth of their hearths and hearts, I couldn't imagine a better fate than a long and lustrous winter." - Phil Connors, Groundhog Day

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    "I can probably think of a couple of reasons... pervert." - Rita and Larry, Groundhog Day

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    "When James saw that this environment had been destroyed, he fell back on his old belief, but this time without any air of patronizing. Hawthorne had lived in a time of American innocence. Then it had been possible for an artist to be one of the greatest without going outside his environment."
    --Peter Buitenhuise, "Henry James on Hawthorne" *The New England Quarterly* Vol. 32, No. 2. (Jun., 1959)

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    Village tough: "Try and kill me!"
    Sanjuro, a ronin: "It'll hurt." - Yojimbo (1961)

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    "An ancient Chinese thinker said that the best training for political life and the ruling of a country was MUSIC. He saw that if you have skill to regulate the multiple parameters of musical composition and performance, you can probably think fairly coherently about the polyphonic parameters of running a state. In this country we think of the Law as ideal training for a political career, since law teaches us to reduce a complex set of standards to operating rules to perform a finite job. However training in Music may have another ability to attune future politicians to multi-dimensionality, something which major societies require in order to operate simultaneously on many levels."
    --William Harris, "Classical Improvisation: The Lost Art"

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    "Had a dream last night, the angels had come riding
    In the light of day where there was no more hiding
    All so fine, I still see them shine
    I saw angels play right in the light of day

    And I watched them fly across a fiery sky
    And I heard their cry as they passed me by
    I could feel the light inside me, I could feel it everywhere
    Life was clear and fair

    Woke up in the dark and tried to keep believing
    In the light I saw, in time of constant grieving
    Vision fair, please don't disappear
    And please hear my prayer there in the light of day...."

    Steve Winwood, "In the Light of Day"

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    "Irony in music. E.g. in Wagner's *Meistersingern*. Incomparably deeper in the fugato in the first movement of the Ninth. There is something here analogous to the expression of bitter irony in speech."
    --Wittgenstein, notebook entry from 1946, in *Culture and value*

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    "WE WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR THE WAY IN WHICH POLITICIANS ARE REPRESENTED IN THIS PROGRAMME. IT WAS NEVER OUR INTENTION TO IMPLY THAT POLITICIANS ARE WEAK-KNEED, POLITICAL TIME-SERVERS WHO ARE CONCERNED MORE WITH THEIR PERSONAL VENDETTAS AND PRIVATE POWER STRUGGLES THAN THE PROBLEMS OF GOVERNMENT, NOR TO SUGGEST AT ANY POINT THAT THEY SACRIFICE THEIR CREDIBILITY BY DENYING FREE DEBATE ON VITAL MATTERS IN THE MISTAKEN IMPRESSION THAT PARTY UNITY COMES BEFORE THE WELL-BEING OF THE PEOPLE THEY SUPPOSEDLY REPRESENT NOR TO IMPLY AT ANY STAGE THAT THEY ARE SQUABBLING LITTLE TOADIES WITHOUT AN OUNCE OF CONCERN FOR THE VITAL SOCIAL PROBLEMS OF TODAY. NOR INDEED DO WE INTEND THAT VIEWERS SHOULD CONSIDER THEM AS CRABBY ULCEROUS LITTLE SELF-SEEKING VERMIN WITH FURRY LEGS AND AN EXCESSIVE ADDICTION TO ALCOHOL AND CERTAIN EXPLICIT SEXUAL PRACTICES WHICH SOME PEOPLE MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE.

    WE ARE SORRY IF THIS IMPRESSION HAS COME ACROSS."

    - Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The War Against Pornography" (1972)

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    "I would say...'you haven't changed a bit, boys. you're still a load of crap.'"--Ken Russell, interview from 2002 on the censors of his movie *The Devils*

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    "Lay down
    Your sweet and weary head
    The night is falling
    You have come to journey's end

    Sleep now
    And dream of the ones who came before
    They are calling
    From across the distant shore

    Why do you weep?
    What are these tears upon your face?
    Soon you will see
    All of your fears will pass away
    Safe in my arms
    You're only sleeping

    What can you see
    On the horizon?
    Why do the white gulls call?
    Across the sea
    A pale moon rises
    The ships have come to carry you home...."

    "Into the West," by Annie Lennox, Fran Walsh and Howard Shore (2003)

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    "Eux, comme un vil sursaut d'hydre oyant jadis l'ange
    Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu
    Proclamèrent très haut le sortilège bu
    Dans le flot sans honneur de quelque noir mélange"

    That gang, like some vile jaculate of the hydra hearing once to have given a more pure meaning to the words of the tribe, that they "proclaimed" from on high the drunken spell in the tide without honor of something black and mixed.

    Stéphane Mallarmé, Tombeau d'Edgar Poe, extraction and translation by Uncle Jizz.

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