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Writing War: Fiction, Gender, and Memory
by Lynne Hanley. 158 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

War Stories

The War Zone: The Great War And Modern Memory

The Time of Her Life

The Romance of Oxbridge:: Virginia Woolf

Little Women

To El Salvador: Joan Didion

Lydia Among the Uniforms

Reconstructing Vietnam: Joan Didion And Doris Lessing

War Torn

War And Postmodern Memory

Planting Tulips
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War Stories and Poems
by Rudyard Kipling, Andrew Rutherford. 416 pgs.

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A unique anthology of Kipling's war stories and poems, from the frontier wars of empire to the Boer War and the First World War.

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General Preface

Introduction

Note on the Text

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A Chronology of Kipling's Life and Works

Part One: The Imperial Frontiers

The Widow's Party

The Drums of the Fore and Aft

That Day

A Conference of the Powers

The Young British Soldier

The Light That Failed Chapter 2

'Fuzzy-Wuzzy'

The Mutiny of the Mavericks

Ford O' Kabul River

The Lost Legion

Arithmetic on the Frontier

Slaves of the Lamp

Part Two: The Boer War

Rimmon

The Way That He Took

The Outsider

Stellenbosch: (Composite Columns)

A Sahibs' War

'Wilful-Missing'

The Comprehension of Private Copper

Half-Ballade of Waterval

The Captive

Chant-Pagan

Part Three: The Great War

Gethsemane: 1914-18

'swept and Gethsemane!

Mary Postgate

The Changelings: (R.N.V.R.)

Sea Constables: A Tale of '15

The Vineyard

Introduction to the Irish Guards in the Great War

A Recantation 1917

A Friend of the Family

Mesopotamia 1917

A Madonna of the Trenches

The Mother's Son

The Gardener

Epitaphs of the War (selection) 1914-18

Appendix: Kipling under Fire: the Battle of Kari Siding

Explanatory Notes
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Writing between the Lines: An Anthology on War and Its Social Consequences
by Kevin Bowen, Bruce Weigl. 314 pgs.

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"This terrific collection is a powerful antidote to the rewritten and re-imaged vision of the Vietnam War in American culture of the 1990s....An exceptionally valuable book with ample potential as a classroom text". -- H. Bruce Franklin

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Foreword

Introduction: Completing the Circle

In Country

How to Tell a True War Story

The Ivory Comb

From Ugly Deadly Music

Fragile as a Sun Ray

Armed Forces Recruitment Day, Albuquerque High School, 1962

First Day, Headquarters Co., 101st Airborne, Phan Rang, Viet Nam

First Encounter

Hearing the Argument of the Little Prisoners

Disasters of War

The Sound of Night

From Fire and Rain

From a Time Far Past

Song of the Hammock (bai Ca Canh Vong)

Song of the Moonlight and the Dan Bo (tieng Dan Bau Va Dem Trang)

Driver of Lorries Without Windscreens

Truong Son East, Truong Son West

Tipping Point

Connections: Vermont Vietnam (i)

Connections: Vermont Vietnam (ii)

Aftermath

Shell Shock

Words for My Daughter

For the Missing in Action

White Circle

In the Labor Market at Giang Vo

Sitting with the Buddhist Monks in Hue, 1967

Waiting

In Phan Thiet

Making the Children Behave

A Walk in the Garden of Heaven

Manuel is Quiet Sometimes

Memorial. Day at the Viet Coffee House

From Novel in Progress:: Over There is the Horizon

Knowing

Wounds of War

Beggars of the Past

From Lost Armies

Playing Basketball with the Viet Cong

The Slope of Life

Do Len

Moonlight

From Chickenhawk: Back in the World

An Old Story

Returning the Missing

Parts

Survivors

The Examples

Outside the Blue Nile

Facing It

Across Borders

Surreptitious Encounter with Joaquin Pasos

Urgent Message to My Mother

From Testimony: Death of a Guatamalan Village

Matters of the Heart

Responsibility

From Mother Tongue

The Extremely Funny Gun Salesman

Miami Beach Farmer

One Night in January

From the Angel of History

The Garden Shukkei-En

Gisela Brüning

Malebolge

We'Re Substance Now and Time

From Scene from the Movie Giant

The Other Alamo

Them

Rain

The Border

What Makes Us Think We Are Only Here

In San Salvador (i)

Going Back

Fever Dream in Ha Noi

A Reed Boat

The Hanoi Market

Nui Ba Den: Black Virgin Mountain

The Arts of Love and Hydrology As Practiced in Hanoi

River Music

The Snail Gatherers of Co Loa Thanh

That Country

The House on Lotus Pond

Mountains and Rivers: Works from Viet Nam

Hope

Despair

My Thoughts

Folk Poetry: Ca Dao

Tavern by a Mountain Stream

The Lieu Quan School of Vietnamese Buddhism

Nonattachment

Parting

White Circles Revisited

The Path

Motion

The Inn of Snake Alcohol

Time

On the Highway

New Students, Old Teacher

Those Days of Happiness

The Alabaster Stork

Quang Tri

New Year Fireworks

Red Earth, Blue Water

A Small Song of Peace

Contributors

Credits and Permissions
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Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation
by Helen M. Cooper, Adrienne Munich Auslander, Susan Merrill Squier. 348 pgs.

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War and Memory

Arms and the Woman: The Con[tra]ception of the War Text

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"Still Wars and Lechery": Shakespeare and the Last Trojan Woman

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Rewriting History: Madame de Villedieu and the Wars of Religion

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Southern Women's Diaries of Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864-1865

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Civil Wars and Sexual Territories

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The Women and Men of 1914

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Corpus/Corps/Corpse: Writing the Body in/at War

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May Sinclair's The Tree of Heaven: The Vortex of Feminism, the Community of War

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Combat Envy and Survivor Guilt: Willa Cather's "Manly Battle Yarn"

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"Seeds for the Sowing": The Diary of Käthe Kollwitz

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A Needle with Mama's Voice: Mitsuye Yamada's Camp Notes and the American Canon of War Poetry

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Feminism, the Great War, and Modern Vegetarianism

Images of Love and War in Contemporary Israeli Fiction: A Feminist Re-vision

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Nuclear Domesticity: Sequence and Survival

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"Epitaphs and Epigraphs: 'The End(s) of Man'"

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A Bibliography of Secondary Sources

The Contributors

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Women's Writing on the First World War
by Agnes Cardinal, Dorothy Goldman, Judith Hattaway. 378 pgs.

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The First World War inspired a huge outpouring of writing, including many classic accounts of the horrors of the trenches, written by men. What has been less visible until now is the Wars impact upon women writers, whose experience was often very different from that of their male counterparts. This anthology brings together women's writing from across the world, covering every genre of writing about the War from the period 1914 to 1930. Letters, diary entries, reportage, and essays, as well as polemical texts in favour of, or in opposition to, the hostilities, offer an interesting counterpoint to the novels and short stories through which women sought to encompass the extremes of wartime life as they saw it. This anthology demonstrates how the Great War acted as a catalyst for women writers, enabling them to find a public voice and to assert their own attitude to social and moral issues.

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Introduction

I the War Begins

1three Ways Home

2fräulein Schwartz

3 War

4 Spies!

4 Spies!

4 Spies!

4 Spies!

4 Spies!

Ii the War Observed

9 La Pharmacienne

10 the Cordite Makers

10 the Cordite Makers

12 a Journal of Impressions in Belgium

13 a Frenchwoman's Notes on the War

13 a Frenchwoman's Notes on the War

13 a Frenchwoman's Notes on the War

13 a Frenchwoman's Notes on the War

13 a Frenchwoman's Notes on the War

13 a Frenchwoman's Notes on the War

Iii the War Comes Home

19 Letters and Diary Entries

20 the Folk-Lore of the War

20 the Folk-Lore of the War

20 the Folk-Lore of the War

20 the Folk-Lore of the War

20 the Folk-Lore of the War

20 the Folk-Lore of the War

20 the Folk-Lore of the War

26 a Pattern of Propriety

27 a Little Nest Egg

31 They Are the Same

34 Roland Leighton

Iv Towards the Front

35 an English Camp

36 the War

37 Letter VII

38 the 'Fannys'

39 Not So Quiet . . .

40 Morphine

44 Count Emil

V Writing the War

45 Inside the Glass Doors

53 Asphodel

54 the Beach

54 the Beach

54 the Beach

54 the Beach

54 the Beach

54 the Beach

Vis Retrospect

62 War Diary

63 Memoirs

65 Ivor Gurney

66 Surprise Visit

67 Miss Ogilvy Finds Herself

66 Surprise Visit

69 My Mother Won the War

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Women's Fiction and the Great War
by Suzanne Raitt, Trudi Tate. 293 pgs.

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The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading critics in the field, considers some of the best-known, and some of the least-known, women writers on whose work the war left its shadow. Ranging from Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and H.D. to Vernon Lee, Frances Bellerby, and Mary Butts, the contributors challenge current thinking about women's responses to the First World War and explore the differences between women writers of the period, thus questioning the very categorization of "women's writing."

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Introduction

1: Mrs Humphry Ward and the First Casualty of War

2: Payments and Face Values: Edith Wharton's A Son at the Fron

3: 'Contagious ecstasy': May Sinclair's War Journals

4: 'A great purifier': The Great War in Women's Romances and Memoirs 1914-1918

5: The Dissidence of Vernon Lee: Satan the Waster and the Will to Believe

6: The Grotesque and the Great War in to the Lighthouse

7: 'It goes on happening': Frances Bellerby and the Great War

8: 'Still some obstinate emotion remains': Radclyffe Hall and the Meanings of Service

9: Flies and Violets in Katherine Mansfield

10: Mary Butts, Mothers, and War

11: HD's War Neurotic

12: Gertrude Stein and War

Notes on the Contributors

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Dressed like a Soldier: World War II in Central Europe in Two GDR Novels, in Symposium
by Patricia Pollock Brodsky. 12 pgs.

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Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture
by M. Paul Holsinger, Mary Anne Schofield. 203 pgs.

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Visions of War: World War II in Popular Literature and Culture

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Snapshots in the Book of War: Lincoln Kirstein's Rhymes of a PFC

New Heroes: Post-War Hollywood's Image of World War II

In Which We Serve: Noel Coward's Vision of the British Navy at War

The War in the East: Theodor Plievier's Novels Moscow, Stalingrad and Berlin

Learning to Fight the Nazis: the Education of Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd

Telling the Truth: Women Spy Narratives of the Second World War

Women's War Stories: the Legacy of South Pacific Internment

Survival! Polish Children during World War II

Ig Farben's Synthetic War Crimes and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

The Art of Making War: the Political Poster in Global Conflict

Madison Avenue Goes to War: Patriotism in Advertising during World War II

"If You'Re Nervous in the Service...": Training Songs of Female Soldiers in the '40s

Rosie the Riveter and the Eight-Hour Orphan: the Image of Child Day Care during World War II

Told without Bitterness: Autobiographical Accounts of the Relocation of Japanese-Americans and Canadians during World War II

An Absence of Soldiers: Wartime Fiction by British Women

"Some Classic Pattern" Pens and Needles on the Home Front

A Cry for Life: Storm Jameson, Stevie Smith, and the Fate of Europe's Jews

Cannibalism and Anorexia, or Feast and Famine in French Occupation Narrative

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Restrained Response: American Novels of the Cold War and Korea, 1945-1962
by Arne Axelsson. 230 pgs.

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Axelsson provides an overview of American military novels set between 1945 and 1962. These are novels informed and inspired by the conditions and background of postwar occupation, the Korean War, and the early phases of the Cold War. More than 120 narratives are considered and evaluated from a literary point of view and discussed in terms of their contribution to the understanding that period in American life and literature. Of the books considered, 27 are given extended treatment--they were selected as being representative of socio-literary phenomena.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Note on Notation

Part One Postwar Reorientation 1945-1953

Chapter 1 Occupational Hazards: The European Scene

Chapter 2 After V-J Day: The Far Eastern Arena

Chapter 3 Thunder in the Background: Home-Front Repercussions

Part Two The Korean Corpus 1950-1953

Chapter 4 Caught in Korea

Chapter 5 Sea and Air War

Chapter 6 Ground Fighting

Part Three Chilling Prospects 1954-1962

Chapter 7 Brink and Abyss

Chapter 8 The Machine in the Military

Chapter 9 Post-Korean Poise

Conclusion

Appendix: Summaries and Sources

Index

About the Author
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Images of the Algerian War: French Fiction and Film, 1954-1992
by Philip D. Dine. 272 pgs.

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The memory of the Algerian war (1954-1962) continues to haunt French society. Although part of a much wider process of decolonization, the conflict was so traumatic that it brought France to the verge of civil war. Philip Dine has written the first full-length survey in any language of the French fiction and film generated by the war, ranging from the writings of Camus to the cinema of Godard, and from the 1950s to the 1990s. Writers discussed include Camus, Etecherelli, Marie Cardinal, Genet, Millecam, Perec, and Jules Roy. Filmmakers covered include Godard, Ophuls, Varda, Schoendorffer, Marker, Resnais, and Demy. All quotations in French are accompanied by English translations.

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List of Abbreviations

Glossary of Arabic and Military Terms

The Algerian War: History And Ideology, Mythology And Fiction

Part I Waging a Dirty War, 1954-1962

I The Myth of the Paratrooper

2: The Myth of the Seigneur

3 Ni Victimes Ni Bourreaux: The Liberal Dilemma

4 Anti-Colonialist Commitment: Camus's Uninvited Guest

Part 2 Remembering the War Without a Name, 1962-1992

'La Quille, Bordel!': Recalling Le Rappel

6 The Will to Belong: the Myths Of the Pieds-Noirs

7: Le MÊme Et L'Autre: Imaging The Algerians

Part 3 Filming the War Without a Name, 1954-1992

8 Cinema Images of the Algerian Conflict, 1954-1992

Conclusion

Bibliography

Alphabetical List of Films Cited

Index
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Search and Clear: Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War
by William J. Searle. 215 pgs.

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Search and Clear: Critical Responses to Selected Literature and Films of the Vietnam War

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Section I: The Quest

John Wayne in a Modern Heart of Darkness: the American Soldier in Vietnam

'Old Kids': the Adolescent Experience in the Nonfiction Narratives of the Vietnam War

Mias, Myth, and Macho Magic: Post-Apocalyptic Cinematic Visions of Vietnam

Section II: Differences and Debts

Words and Fragments: Narrative Style in Vietnam War Novels

Vietnam Fiction and the Paradoxical Paradigm of Nomenclature

From the DMZ to No Man's Land: Philip Caputo's a Rumor of War and Its Antecedents

Section III: Craft and Techniques

Fact, Fiction, and Metafiction in James Park Sloan's War Games

When Buffalos Fight It is the Grass That Suffers: Narrative Distance in Asa Baber's Land of a Million Elephants

David Rabe's Theater of War and Remembering

The Past and the Possible: Tim O'Brien's Dialectic of Memory and Imagination

Section IV: Return and Partial Recovery

Soldier's Home: Images of Alienation in Sticks and Bones

Walking Wounded: Vietnam War Novels of Return

Bringing Vietnam Home: Bruce Weigl's the Monkey Wars

Section V: Wider Perspectives

Women in Vietnam War Novels

Born of Two Fathers: Gender and Misunderstanding in Platoon

Platoon and the Mythology of Realism
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Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare
by Theodor P. Meron. 248 pgs.

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War is a major theme in Shakespeare's plays. Aside from its dramatic appeal, it provided him with a context in which his characters, steeped in the ideals of chivalry, could discuss such concepts as honor, courage, patriotism, and justice. Well aware of the decline of chivalry in his own era, Shakespeare gave his characters lines calling for civilized behavior, mercy, humanitarian principles, and moral responsibility. In this remarkable new book, eminent legal scholar Theodor Meron looks at contemporary international humanitarian law and rules for the conduct of war through the lens of Shakespeare's plays and discerns chivalry's influence there. The book comes as a response to the question of whether the world has lost anything by having a system of law based on the Hague and Geneva conventions. Meron contends that, despite the foolishness and vanity of its most extreme manifestations, chivalry served as a customary law that restrained and humanized the conflicts of the generally chaotic and brutal Middle Ages. It had the advantage of resting on the sense that rules arise naturally out of societies, their armed forces, and their rulers on the basis of experience. Against a background of Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as Shakespeare's historical and dramatic settings, Meron considers the ways in which law, morality, conscience, and state necessity are deployed in Shakespeare's plays to promote a society in which soldiers behave humanely and leaders are held to high standards of civilized behavior. Thus he illustrates the literary genealogy of such modern international humanitarian concerns as the treatment of prisoners and of noncombatants and accountability for war crimes, showing that the chivalric legacy has not been lost entirely. Fresh and insightful, Bloody Constraint will interest scholars of international law, lovers of Shakespeare, and anyone interested in the history of war.

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Introduction

One Chivalry's Legacy

Two: War and Peace

Three a Pagan Knight?: Shakespeare's Ancient Wars

Four the Homeric Wars Through Shakespeare

Concluding Observations

Five the Brave or the Wise?: Two Conflicting Conceptions of Chivalric Honour

Six Chivalry as a Normative Ideal

Seven Debunking Chivalry's Myth: Commoners, Fools, Cynics

Eight Principle Under Stress

Nine Crimes and Accountability

Concluding Observations

Epilogue

Notes

Index
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Writing the Good Fight: Political Commitment in the International Literature of the Spanish Civil War
by Peter Monteath. 214 pgs.

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Monteath examines the international literature of the Spanish Civil War across the entire range of the political spectrum, from anarchism to nazism. Utilizing this approach he is able to highlight the extraordinary creative potential of a period in which political and aesthetic practice were almost inseparable.

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Recent Titles in Contributions to the Study of World Literature

Copyright Acknowledgments

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Preface

Introduction

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1. War and Political Ideologies in Spain

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2. Nazi Literature

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3. Politics and Beyond: the Rhetoric of the Right

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4. Literature and the Popular Front

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5. Literature and Marxism

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6. Heresies of the Left

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7. Literature and Anarchism

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14 .

War, Gender, and Ernest Hemingway, in The Hemingway Review
by Alex Vernon. 22 pgs.

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Tim O'Brien and the Art of the True War Story: "Night March" and "Speaking of Courage," in Twentieth Century Literature
by John H. Timmerman. 15 pgs.

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From Yellow Peril to Japanese Wasteland: John Hersey's "Hiroshima," in Twentieth Century Literature
by Patrick B. Sharp. 19 pgs.

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