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This is a different section.

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"I love paper on which
things are printed,

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the loveliness of the paper.

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Going in a taxi from
the train station

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to a place that is to be
work in an other city.

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Through blocks of
housing that is

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denuded without window
panes collapsing

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in which people live out in
the streets, sitting out.

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And at the end of
that block in the area

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was the one building that
is fixed up and painted.

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It was the funeral parlor.

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The funeral parlor.

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Man is loaded out on beach
with his friends strolling

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around curve.

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They see a whale,
which has molted,

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sheets of skin coming off, in
which the crabs and birds are.

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The carcass rotting of the
long, gray, speckled whale.

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And the loaded men
strolling by the ocean.

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The people bathing by the bank
with the greenish puffed corpse

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floating near them.

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And some in a boat grinding
their motion picture cameras

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at the people.

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They were afterwards,
arrested, their cameras

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taken away from them.

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The men on rocks of pools and
the loaded men went swimming.

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Him unable to tell
where the cold water is,

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not knowing whether it
is at his waist or neck,

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but that he cannot
breathe water.

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It is black.

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The black ripples
have colors on them

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when moving away from his hands.

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Swimming in the black.

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Sleek or slippery
his skin is that.

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My sitting in the
boat, a man rowing.

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Being rowed up to along the bank
where the people were bathing.

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A greenish blue corpse
and one of a dog bloated,

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floated at the bank.

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People were filming, floating
nearby, weighted with seven

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or so in the rowboat.

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Being rowed by or near
them and the people

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looking who are in the water.

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Being dumb as being regarded
as being something only.

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Driving, they had
eaten in a small town

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and went out in the desert.

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Feeling ill yet
driving in the car

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and then stopping, walking
out onto the desert.

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There was sage.

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Clumps of tangled thorn brush
in which the wild, horned cattle

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stayed for shade.

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Going into this
to vomit, vomiting

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yet so that the huge
cattle flies which

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tormented them were fierce
to the person driving

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across the country
for the cattle.

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The blond candidate, empty,
dumb heard on the car radio

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so that it is detached.

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It is up to death or in it,
where every one is different.

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The corpse floating at the bank.

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Decomposing is not
noticed, not there.

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Earlier, desert river now.

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No plants except the
thorn trees and sage.

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For the wild, horned
cattle, the vomiting

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is the inner part of
this person standing

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in the thorn trees, which
are where cattle stand out

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in the heat.

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Who's just this foolish person
as they see themselves being

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dumb as being something only.

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That's why the
incumbent candidate

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there standing on the streets.

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At night out, a
man stood looking

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into the open door
of the restaurant

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and lit a plastic fork on fire.

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After lighting his
cigarette, lit the cigarette,

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and then lit the fork with it.

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Then coming in
from the open door

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asks to go to the toilet in the
restaurant to which the very

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young, gracious waiter a sense.

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There is no thing as
a double affirmative,

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which is a negative.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Going up the street had
wanted to have an action.

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What is that?

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It is not a person.

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It is not anything.

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Bicycling and at a crossroads
in the waste of fields.

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They are cornfields, evening,
some pheasants fly up.

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Stopping at the
crossroads, there's

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a restaurant which
is all you can eat.

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Benches with
immense obese people

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eating who are from the farms.

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Rows of the unrestrained
hog-like people made fragile.

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Sitting in a crowd, they scarf.

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Platters of fish brought.

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More rounds of platters of fish.

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The sky outside the
restaurant, which

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is surrounded by the
fields, is light evening.

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In winter at 20 below zero, the
restaurants, everywhere stands

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were closed.

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Playing the video games machine
in the one pizza restaurant

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out in the freezing
night, there weren't

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many people several in it.

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The glacial arctic camp
outside with a few people

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going to it out.

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The two people playing
the video games

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and coming to the
other restaurant

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with the fields surrounding
in the evening in summer.

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The gluttonous people from
the farms, they were fragile,

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a den inside.

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The roads at the crossroad
stretching away outside.

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The insides of these, the
episodes singly and therefore,

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not meeting anything
now or need for that.

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It's not meeting anything.

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In the November 1988,
dreaming I was not

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a resident, a passerby
in Italy at a party where

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noticing people were in
line with trays of food.

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I realized it was a restaurant.

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And stealing, I walked out
with a piece of meat, raw.

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I'd crossed the street eating
the raw, corrugated beef

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when a man from the
establishment comes out.

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I drop the meat, which he
didn't see by the sidewalk

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and asks strongly if I took it.

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I said no, I had left it.

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A couple really had
driven down a road

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in the Midwest cornfields,
the sky hot and still.

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And men drove up alongside
sticking their tongues out

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and shouting fuck you, go home.

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Following them,
dragging in the car,

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shouting when they are
stopped at a stop sign

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in the midst of the
waste of fields.

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In the evening there, they were
sitting at a restaurant out.

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And young men and
women drove by in cars,

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sticking their tongues out
along the street of the town.

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Up the street slowly or racing
and then back up it again.

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Evening with the fields
surrounding the town for miles.

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And going in the
water before, when

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it was the person
far out in the day

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become overcast, floating alone
in the inner tube on the lake.

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Dark water with only the
person on the inner tube,

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which is not cared about.

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February 1988, desert
which is immense

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and from above light brown
or red, vast rivulets

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of sand with no human
life as the only land.

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What land is.

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Running alongside
it and then forward

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is the deep, blue Red Sea with
the edges of the land in very

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light turquoise blue rim.

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It is the rim.

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A very beautiful rim.

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The people are in the air.

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There are patches of sand in
as it goes on the endless sea.

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The very light turquoise rimmed.

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So it could be sky, which
has white, rainless clouds

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in the sky.

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Or it could be in the sea.

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Whatever is darker as shadows
could be just in the air,

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only in the air.

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Sand patches rimmed or with the
very light blue shallower sea,

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but only if one's here.

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A couple-- terrain where
the young men and women

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had leaned out of the cars
sticking their tongues out,

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driving the length of
the town in the evenings.

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The fields surrounding
the town for miles,

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got into the canoe
going down the river.

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Muskrats are seen
along the bank.

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The two people holding oars
in the canoe going downstream.

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Murmurs of the extremely elderly
people floor of them out,

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turning in their wheelchairs,
moaning or sighing.

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Floor of them
weeping as one passes

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not speaking up the hall.

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The turning of their
wheelchairs simply of that.

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There's a bluff of the canoe.

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The streams finger out
confluence on a plateau.

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And the sole canoe
drifts out onto it.

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Seeing a building sometime
in the vegetation,

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they draw up to the
shore not struggling.

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Out there, it is a
Frank Lloyd Wright

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building squat as if
sliding into the river.

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And inside it, young women in
green, velvet, floor length

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gowns as of a pool table.

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And one in white, floor
length playing a harp

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as tasteless food is served.

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The people having come
from the canoe finding it

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in the vegetation.

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Then the bluff from the
canoe and looking over it.

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The streams finger
out onto the plateau.

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The sole canoe."

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So that's all from that section
of the novel that I'll read.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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