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Kirjasto577 kirjaa — katso kirjasto
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Pilvetavainsanapilvi, tekijäpilvi
AvainsanatEarly Reviewers (2), Urban survival (1) — kaikki avainsanat
RyhmätMade into a Movie, Readers Over Sixty, SF Bay Area Librarythingers, South American Fiction-Argentine Writers, The Green Dragon
Tietoja minusta I cannot remember a time when I didn't read. . . and since I am 85 now, that means a lot of books. I've not cataloged all I have but tonite I'm thinking I'd like to single out those I've read many times (how many others re-read?) and to tell (brag) about the authors I've been fortunate to speak to (more than the casual murmer at book signings). I'll do this soon. Meanwhile anyone else who wants to follow suit, GO AHEAD! (I'll try to catch up to you.) Esta1923
Tietoja kirjastostani Books all over the apartment, and some in storage closet in carport. Many oldold and dear, some I got from publishers when I was "The Book Hustler" on KOSU-fm, Stillwater, OK, many years ago. (Got that job after being interviewed by Susan Stamberg on NPR.) Because I have been a bad lender I fell into being one-who-tells-about and still do that, tho I've lent a few recently (and gotten them back!).
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Kommentteja muilta LibraryThingaajilta
(Jätä kommentti.)
Keep up the good work :-)
Lähettänyt: Tane 3:30 am (EST) May 10, 2008
Lähettänyt: monicabrandywine 8:55 pm (EST) Apr 29, 2008
Lähettänyt: dodger 6:29 pm (EST) Apr 16, 2008
Auteur Title Principal Performer 1 Date
Beethoven Fidelio Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Haitink 1979
Beethoven Fidelio Metropolitan Opera, Levine 2002
Berg Wozzeck Hamburg State Opera 1970
Bernstein Candide Barbican Center, London Symphony, Bernstein 1989
Borodin Prince Igor Kirov Opera 1969
Britten Peter Grimes Royal Opera, Colin Davis 1981
Britten The Turn of the Screw 2005
Cilia Adriana Lecouvreur La Scala, Gavazzeni 1989
Debussy Pelleas et Melisande Opernhaus Zurich, Hans Welser-Most 2004
Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor La Scala, Ranzani 1992
Dvorak Rusalka Opera National de Paris 2002
Glass, Philip Satyagraha ZDF-RM Arts 1983
Gounod Romeo et Juliette Royal Opera, Mackerras 1994
Handel Giulio Cesare Opera Australia 1994
Monteverdi Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Leppard 1973
Monteverdi Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria Opernhauses Zurich 1979
Monteverdi L'Incoronazione di Poppea Opernhauses Zurich 1978
Monteverdi L'Orfeo Opernhauses Zurich 1977
Mozart Cosi fan tutte Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1975
Mozart Cosi fan tutte La Scala, Muti 1989
Mozart Cosi fan tutte Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner 1992
Mozart Cosi fan tutte Zurich Opera House, Harnoncourt 2000
Mozart Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1980
Mozart Die Zauberflote Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1978
Mozart Die Zauberflote Hamburg State Opera 1971
Mozart Die Zauberflote Metropolitan Opera, Levine 1991
Mozart Die Zauberflote Metropolitan Opera, Levine 1991
Mozart Don Giovanni Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1977
Mozart Don Giovanni La Scala, Muti 1987
Mozart Don Giovanni Paris Opera 1979
Mozart Don Giovanni Zurich Opera House, Harnoncourt 2001
Mozart Idomeneo Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1974
Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1973
Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Haitink 1994
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Gran Teatre del Liceu 2004
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov Kirov Opera, Valerie Gergiev 1990
Pergolesi La frate 'nnamorato La Scala, Muti 1989
Portman Little Prince 2004
Prokofiev Love for Three Oranges De Nederlandse Opera 2005
Prokofiev War and Peace Opera National de Paris 2000
Puccini La Fanciulla del West La Scala, Maazel 1991
Puccini Turandot Metropolitan Opera, Levine 1988
Purcell The Fairy Queen English National Opera 1995
Rossini Guglielmo Tell La Scala, Muti
Rossini Il Barbiere di siviglia La Scala, Abbado 1972
Rossini La donna del lago La Scala, Muti 1992
Schoenberg Moses und Aron Vienna State Opera 2006
Strauss Elektra Metropolitan Opera, Levine 1980
Stravinsky Le Rossignol Opera National de Paris 1999
Stravinsky Oedipus Rex Saito Kinen Festival, Seiji Ozawa 1992
Stravinsky The Rake's Progress Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Pritchard 1975
Tan Dun Tea The Netherlands Opera, Tan Dun 2002
Verdi Aida La Scala, Maazel 1985
Verdi Aida Metropolitan Opera, Levine 1989
Verdi Aida San Francisco Opera 1981
Verdi Attila La Scala, Muti 1991
Verdi Don Carlo La Scala, Muti 1992
Verdi Don Carlos Theatre du Chatelet 1996
Verdi Falstaff Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Pritchard 1976
Verdi I due Foscari La Scala, Gavazzeni 1988
Verdi I vespri Siciliani La Scala, Muti
Verdi Macbeth Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Pritchard 1972
Verdi Otello Deutschen Oper Berlin, Karajan 1974
Verdi Otello La Scala, Maazel 1986
Wagner Der Ring des Nibelungen Gran Teatre del Liceu
Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Bayreuther Festspiele, Wolfgang Wagner 1984
Wagner Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Metropolitan Opera, Levine 2001
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Bayreuther Festspiele, Barenboim 1983
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Metropolitan Opera, Levine 1999
Wagner Tristan und Isolde Theatre Antique d'Orange, Bohm 1973
Zandonai Francesca da Rimini Metropolitan Opera, Levine 1984
That's really normally in a nice neat table. Notice that I don't have the Glyndeborne Julio Cesare or the Bryn Terfel Falstaff, but I've seen them both if the former is the one with Danielle Deniese and the latter was at Glyndeborne; I fell in love with Daniell Deniese (don't tell her).
I saw Il Ritorno d'Ulysse in Patria a few weeks ago (not one of mine). Kerman mentions it in his recent book. It was absolutely great. Two of my Cosi fan Tutte's are commendable, but I can't remember which without digging out the DVD's; I was not very impressed with the one that had Cecilia Bartoli in it.
I have watched many fewer of my DVD's than I have not watched. I'm not in a hurry.
Again, thanks for your recommendations,
Robert
Lähettänyt: rdurick 3:37 am (EST) Apr 15, 2008
I could be quite happy with a list of DVD's. They seem to be pretty hard to shop for, my collection of 71 notwithstanding (I'd be happy to send you an excerpt from my Access file if you want it). We have a group at church; one other fellow brings versions I have not seen listed. I shop mostly at BN.COM but drop into the Met's shop from time to time, excruciating as that might be.
Robert
Lähettänyt: rdurick 5:30 pm (EST) Apr 11, 2008
Ferris
Lähettänyt: hemlokgang 5:06 pm (EST) Apr 10, 2008
Thanks for your comment about Death of a River Guide. To answer your question, I absolutely loved the book. Flanagan writes beautifully, and I liked the intertwining stories of past and present. Flanagan's protagonist comes to understand a sense of his own history and how that has affected his present. On the downside, this was a pretty dark book.
Thanks for visiting my blog Literary License (www.litlicense.blogspot.com) to look for the review. Because I read so many books, I do not have time to review them all on the blog, so that is why this book is not on the blog.
Gwen
Lähettänyt: gwendolyndawson 12:30 pm (EST) Mar 26, 2008
Lähettänyt: lovexmexorxhatexme 8:50 am (EST) Mar 21, 2008
It's interesting how little you can tell about "Kleinzeit" from LibraryThing, which offers a range of curious tags (including both "american fiction" and "british fiction"!). I'm certainly curious, and will look out for a copy. But I think my next will have to be "The Lion of ...", which we have, but I've never opened.
I found "Fremder" hard going, elusive, and actually rather unsettling.
Lähettänyt: MyopicBookworm 3:07 pm (EST) Mar 16, 2008
Q: How do you know if you've got elephants in the house?
A: GREAT BIG holes in the skirting boards.)
Lähettänyt: MyopicBookworm 6:35 am (EST) Mar 14, 2008
Ti-Coyo is described as "an immoral fable" by the author. It's irreverent really, but not that much considering it's French.
I bought my first copy from a schoolmate whose family were emigrating to Canada. This happened over 40 years ago when I was 15 or 16 years old. It was a thick paperback (Corgi Giant to be exact) which included the sequel "Son of Ti-Coyo", another delightful story.
The years rolled by and the book went missing. Until I sourced a copy over the Internet in a second hand book in New York. I don't rember the name of the store but I now have a hardbound copy of Ti-Coyo.
I happened to mention the story to my younger brother, who comes up with "I've got it!". And sure enough within a few days I'm back in possession of my original battered copy.
Keep in touch.
Charles
Lähettänyt: cgatt 1:32 pm (EST) Mar 9, 2008
Thanks for stopping by. I think it takes about two weeks for the hormone levels to register on a home test kit. The way the author jumps topics made me wonder how much time elapsed, I'm not sure it's the next day or just another day.I was wondering if there might have been a question about who the father might be, since Olivia spent November sleeping with both men, and the baby was born in August. I wish the author had filled in more of the blanks, maybe it's because she writes so many short stories. I've ordered some of her older books since I heard they fill in the earlier years of some of the characters.
Enjoy your books,
Mel
Lähettänyt: readaholic12 9:16 am (EST) Mar 4, 2008
:o)
Lähettänyt: clamairy 7:34 pm (EST) Feb 24, 2008
Janet
Lähettänyt: streamsong 10:12 am (EST) Feb 7, 2008
:)
Lähettänyt: bookstopshere 12:57 pm (EST) Jan 28, 2008
Thank you for the message. I just logged-in to LT today,and read your message.
Yes, i'm using a Macbook for a year and just last month I've "upgraded-it" to a Macbook Pro which came with a Leopard OS CD (but i haven't install it on my Pro, due to the fact that there are still some applications which doesn't support Leopard yet).. so, i'm still using Tiger OS for now and it's still great though..
I have a book about Leopard coz i would like to know and learn all about it :), sometimes i feel i know nothing about..everything, and feel "the urge" to find out and study them myself !
I always love reading since my childhood, i guess it's becoz i saw my parents (especially my mom) always had a book in her hands (in English or Dutch). And since i'm an Indonesian, i don't know any single word of english at the time. And my mom didn't always have the time to explained to me about her english books that i've interested in.
So, i made a "vow" that I had to learn and be able to understand or speak english. And...voila ! now i can understand (most) of english words (i can understand english more than i can speak though..).
I love reading so much, it's just sad that english books/magazines in Indonesia is still expensive for some, as i know that there are so many good books/magazines out there (whether they're stories, knowledges, literatures, biography etc).
I also "teach" my 3 kids to love reading as i do..(i took them to bookshops everytime i went out with them, at least twice a month.. and we could spent hours there reading and choosing which books we're going to buy). My youngest son (8 yrs) loves reading almost as much as i am, but sadly the other two not as much.
Well, hopefully they will eventually :)
Have a nice weekend
Marie
Lähettänyt: preciosamio 9:50 pm (EST) Jan 25, 2008
I plan to try it soon. I also make a lovely mango salad with fresf diced mango ,half a small sweet onion diced very finely, all mixed together and dressed with sour cream or plain yoghurt if you want to be 'good'. Season with salt and pepper and a sprinkle of chopped chives. The Nam Doc Mais are picking now ,common name banana mango. They arte my favourite. Bye for now, CHris H
Lähettänyt: cayman 1:20 am (EST) Jan 21, 2008
How very right you are regarding Anne Tyler's early works. Dinner at the Homesick Resturant is a gem...
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Lähettänyt: aviddiva 2:58 pm (EST) Jan 9, 2008
Gotta love spell-checkers! Technically speaking, it is a word and I did spell it right. Hee he. Thanks for noticing ... that's a rather embarrassing typo. ;-)
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I write a blog over at http://randomwonderer.blogspot.com/ . I wonder about mostly books, technology, life's purpose & how to cope with an empty nest.
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Michael
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Michael
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Robert
Lähettänyt: rdurick 6:41 pm (EST) Nov 17, 2007
That's a beautiful, wonderful line right there. I thank my parents often for instilling in me a love for books and reading, not just as a ways and means, but as an essential part of a fullfilling life.
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Abby
Lähettänyt: ablachly 12:04 pm (EST) Nov 2, 2007
In any case, thanks for the recommendation, I'll be looking for the Findlay books. I appreciate your suggestions.
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Lähettänyt: finebalance 11:27 am (EST) Oct 2, 2007
I've worked out maybe a thousand of them, and at lest half of them seem to be pretty close to right.
Glad I could abate your sleeplessness.
WHL
Lähettänyt: WholeHouseLibrary 12:10 pm (EST) Oct 1, 2007
Many thanks for your comment. My apologies for the belated response. Life has been a little busy and I haven't been getting to the LT site as often as I would like. I have shamefully to admit that Russell Hoban is a complete gap in my reading. I have never been introduced to his work, hence his absence from my library. Where would you recommend I start?
Oh dear, I can see that to be read pile growing ever higher!
Lähettänyt: finebalance 3:29 am (EST) Oct 1, 2007
Lähettänyt: oroboros 3:12 pm (EST) Sep 18, 2007
Thank you for the kind comment. I have enjoyed looking at your library and reading various things you have had to say. I just enjoy Librarything.com a great deal and you are part of the reason.
Lähettänyt: maggie1944 2:36 pm (EST) Sep 16, 2007
Thank you for the birthday wish. This year was decidedly pleasant compared to past ones.
Lähettänyt: brlb21 6:33 pm (EST) Sep 14, 2007
Sean
Lähettänyt: SeanLong 8:11 am (EST) Sep 10, 2007
Yes, I am a Hugh Laurie fan. However, I have never seen that show. I've recently heard about it from the threads around here, and I'm seriously thinking about ordering the series from Amazon. I did just get his book (apparently he's multi-talented). I hope to start it soon. Until then, I'll just have to settle for House reruns.
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Lähettänyt: bluetyson 1:38 pm (EST) Aug 26, 2007
I do have or had "Back in Keith County". Thanks for the suggestion and sorry for the belated reply. I don't really visit the Library Thing much.
Lähettänyt: ksbioteacher 9:05 am (EST) Aug 23, 2007
Thank you for the movie recommendation of "Funny Bones". I've placed it on my Netflix queue. Looking forward to watching it! :)
Lähettänyt: tygerlilli 10:05 am (EST) Aug 22, 2007
I find it always amazing the paths that lead us from one place to another. You once posted a poem for me,
and now I find you again after finding Theresa Williams today. Art is Life.
I'm now officially a Californian - living in the central valley. A little too far from San Francisco but
still much closer than NYC.
Looking forward to seeing you in Theresa's group - and within your own library.
Cate
Lähettänyt: bleuroses 1:07 am (EST) Aug 8, 2007
Lähettänyt: TheresaWilliams 5:31 pm (EST) Aug 6, 2007
Lähettänyt: TheresaWilliams 3:25 pm (EST) Aug 6, 2007
Sorry I couldn't be more help, but nice to get a virtual conversation going!
Lähettänyt: aviddiva 12:59 am (EST) Jul 26, 2007
Sorry I couldn't be more help, but nice to get a virtual conversation going!
Lähettänyt: aviddiva 12:58 am (EST) Jul 26, 2007
Sorry I couldn't be more help, but nice to get a virtual conversation going!
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Lähettänyt: writestuff 10:17 pm (EST) May 31, 2007
I, too, was prompted to read Moby Dick because of Ahab's Wife, but I chose to tackle it first. I am not sure what you thought of it, but I really didn't like it at all and can't believe that I spent the time reading the 1,000 + pages (compulsive finisher). I don't think I am smart enough for it - I couldn't see the time wasted on writing 3 pages about rope, for example, but I am sure Melville had a purpose. One of the men in my group read it, too, even though I told him not to bother - he didn't like it either...
Oh well - another day, another book. At least I can say I did it (not much consolation).
Nice to "meet" you - keep in touch!
-Concetta
Lähettänyt: Concetta 8:07 am (EST) May 19, 2007
But thank you :):)
Lähettänyt: bluesalamanders 4:58 pm (EST) Apr 21, 2007
I just joined the SF Librarythingers group as we're moving back to the Bay
area this summer! In the early 90's, I worked at Aardvark books on Church & Market!
Let's keep in touch - perhaps we can organize a SF LT group outing sometime!
Cate
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Lähettänyt: Atomicmutant 10:13 am (EST) Mar 22, 2007
Thanks for my only human interaction so far--g
Lähettänyt: gosomo 2:07 am (EST) Mar 20, 2007
Clare
Lähettänyt: clamairy 4:35 pm (EST) Mar 9, 2007
I did not know there was a movie of The Sound of One Hand Clapping. Shall look it up on Amazon. Have you read Richard Flanagan's other books?
Amanda
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Lähettänyt: uffishread 11:14 am (EST) Jan 4, 2007
Happy New Year to you too!
Clare
Lähettänyt: clamairy 11:02 pm (EST) Dec 26, 2006
Thanks for your note.
Lähettänyt: SamHouston 6:23 pm (EST) Dec 24, 2006
I just checked my Flickr account today (after neglecting it for too long), and noticed your comment, so thought I'd let you know I'd replied. I took the photo because Whitelaw is my mother's maiden name, and I loved the memorial (I'm sure there's a name for those statue things, but no idea what it could be!). I live quite near the Necropolis too, and it's a fantastic place for photography - even amateurs like me.
Best wishes,
deargreenplace :)
Lähettänyt: deargreenplace 9:02 am (EST) Dec 20, 2006
Lähettänyt: sunny 12:03 pm (EST) Dec 6, 2006
http://www.ocelotfactory.com/hoban/index.html is agood place to start
Lähettänyt: SimonW11 5:11 pm (EST) Nov 29, 2006
Lähettänyt: liberlibri 1:40 am (EST) Nov 15, 2006
I have a basic Flick[e]r account, though I have only uploaded one photo, months ago, and it is marked private, so no one can see it...as I type this, I realize that I am uncertain why I even have an account there. I have considered many times breaking down and paying for a full account, but I have yet to do so.
Not being one to blatantly ignore a "shameless plea for attention," I shall indeed take a look at your pictures sometime, though you may want to update your LibraryThing profile and include your Flickr account in the "Also in" portion of your profile, that way, all of the fine people you meet here on LibraryThing can easily locate you on Flickr too.
Take care,
Ryan
Lähettänyt: dodger 8:03 am (EST) Oct 15, 2006
It's a very odd, funny, and little-known humor book about cheap and BAD FOOD IN AMERICA. I haven't read the whole thing, but big chunks I recall as wierd and funny. This book marks the official debut of "hampster-on-a-stick."
Thanks for writing. It's fun to connect with somebody over something strange like this.
Lähettänyt: erickneil 10:40 pm (EST) Oct 6, 2006
Cool site - the ben frank quote . . .
They that can give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Is a real peach - food for thought in quite a few "civilized" countries at the moment.
Lähettänyt: psiloiordinary 4:24 am (EST) Oct 6, 2006
Yes, I think this website is absolutely wonderful. I have already met a lot of very interesting people. Isn't it great to have a place where everybody else is a bookworm? Where people understand why you cannot get rid of books and, actually, increase your collection whenever you can?
I never thought something like this would ever exist but, lo and behold! it does!!!!!!
Paola :-))
Lähettänyt: aluvalibri 1:46 pm (EST) Sep 18, 2006
The Shimoda book sounds interesting. Not having read it I cannot comment but knowing the Stone Bridge Press as quality publishers of anything on Japan I would think it must be good. Thanks for the tip. I'll get a copy and get back to you on my thoughts.
signature103
Lähettänyt: signature103 3:45 pm (EST) Sep 2, 2006
Thanks for the comment! I stumbled upon Chitra Divakaruni sort of by accident. I was browsing in a used bookstore, not really looking for anything when I saw Sister of my Heart. I think I read the whole thing in one day, I was so engrossed in it. Since then I've read a handful of others by her and still a few more on my shelf to be read. I'd love to see her in person! I'll have to be on the lookout! Happy reading!
Annie
Lähettänyt: blissfulwitch 6:24 pm (EST) Aug 28, 2006
I promise that I didn't steal mine either, though - I met it by chance because I love the illustrator's work so much that I've been buying his most obscure works through eBay and Abe Books. I've read a few curious books as a result, and Living House is certainly the most unusual one.
Regards, Kath.
Lähettänyt: kaffles 11:32 pm (EST) Aug 13, 2006
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Lähettänyt: Kinch 8:29 pm (EST) Aug 8, 2006
As for the website and the Kraken internet group: I was one of the first members! I was part of the group that sent Mr. H. birthday cards and bottles of Scotch for the first couple of years after the group was formed. Work has kept me from being one of the more active memebrs, and distance and budget have of course kept me from the Sympoasyum, but I try to keep in touch with the group. Hoban certainly is gracious. I once received an email thank you for a birthday greeting.
Now I've got to get to work on entering some miscellaneous and some children's books, before I go back to the school year! Best wishes to you -- Jane
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Lähettänyt: Linkmeister 8:46 pm (EST) Aug 1, 2006
I noticed your question "How do I post reviews" over in the "What are you reading now" group.
Easily. Select the desired book in your catalog, click the "Edit" button, and you'll get the book information screen. The (I think) second box on the screen is titled "Review." Type in your review, and hit the "Submit" button at either the top or bottom of that screen.
Hope that helps.
Lähettänyt: Linkmeister 5:39 pm (EST) Aug 1, 2006
According to AustLit website, the novel was first titled 'The Bread of Time to Come' from a Wallace Stevens poem, an author Malouf identifies as influencing him the most. When I come across anything that comes close to answering your question I'll get back to you about it.
I notice you have Death of a River Guide- have you read it? If so, what are your thoughts?
Cheers
Lähettänyt: thewordygecko 4:18 am (EST) Jul 16, 2006
I agree with you! I think Julian Barnes' work is wonderful. Though I haven't quite read it all, I mean to. I highly recommend A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters.
Lähettänyt: PicNique 7:52 pm (EST) Jul 11, 2006
I agree with you! I think his Julian Barnes' work is wonderful, though I haven't quite read it all. I highly recommend A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters.
Lähettänyt: PicNique 7:51 pm (EST) Jul 11, 2006
Thanks for the recommendation.
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