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says Steiner. Here through the harmony of the rhythmic processes ofbreathing and blood circulation, he describes how the lion group-soulactually maintains a balance between spiritual and physical substancesin the earthly environment – specifically, through balancing the effects onthe earth of birds and ruminants. There is a similar episode of strengtheningor purifying heart forces by doing battle with a lion in Book 11 ofWolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, where the knight Gawain fights alion, as well as in a number of fairy tales.13. Steiner, Geographic Medicine, p. 9.14. See Stegmann, The Other America, vol. 1, p. 11.15. See, for example, Rudolf Steiner, In the Changed Conditions of the Times,trans. Olin D. Wannamaker (New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1941), pp.53-60; The Karma of Untruthfulness, vol. 1, trans. Johanna Collis (London:Rudolf Steiner Press, 1988), p. 163; The Karma of Vocation, trans. Olin D.Wannamaker, rev. Gilbert Church and Peter Mollenhauer (Spring Valley,NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1984), pp. 82-84; Man as Symphony of theCreative Word, trans. Judith Compton-Burnett (London: Rudolf SteinerPress, 1970; also published as Harmony of the Creative Word), pp. 42-44;The Temple Legend, trans. John M. Wood (London: Rudolf Steiner Press,1985), pp. 311-313; and The Wrong and Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge,rev. trans. C. D. (London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1966), pp. 53-54, 65-66.16. Art History as an Image of Inner Spiritual Impulses, manuscript translationby Gertrude Teutsch, twelfth lecture of October 22, 1917, p. 29. It is alsorelevant to note Steiner’s statement that the human being can only understandsubnature for what it really is “if he rises, in spiritual knowlege,at least as far into extra-earthly Super-nature as he had descended, intechnical sciences, into Sub-Nature.” Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts,trans. George and Mary Adams (London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1973),p. 218.20
BibliographyHauschka, Rudolf. The Nature of Substance. trans. Marjorie Spock andMary T. Richards, London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1983.Mees, L.F.C. Living Metals. London: Regency Press, 1974.Pelikan, Wilhelm. Secrets of Metals. trans. Charlotte Lebensart, SpringValley, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1973.Stegmann, Carl. The Other America: The Western World in the Light ofSpiritual Science. Oakland, CA: privately publised in two volumes, n.d.Steiner, Rudolf. Background to the Gospel of St. Mark. trans. E.H. Goddardand D.S. Osmond, London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1968.________. Geographic Medicine. Spring Valley, NY: Mercury Press, 1979.________. Inner Impulses of Evolution: The Mexican Mysteries and the KnightsTemplar. Spring Valley, NY: Anthroposophic Press, 1984.________. In the Changed Conditions of the Times. trans. Olin D.Wannamaker, New York: Anthroposophic Press, 1941.________. The Karma of Untruthfulness, vol. 1, trans. Johanna Collis,London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1988.________. The Karma of Vocation. trans. Olin D. Wannamaker, rev. GilbertChurch and Peter Mollenhauer, Spring Valley, NY: AnthroposophicPress, 1984.________. Man as Symphony of the Creative Word. trans. Judith Compton-Burnett, London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1970.________. Rhythm in Man. Lecture of December 21, 1908, manuscripttrans., Ghent, NY: Rudolf Steiner Library.________. Rhythms in the Cosmos and in the Human Being. Lectures ofDecember 20, 25, and 28, 1923, manuscript trans. M. Thornton, Ghent,NY: Rudolf Stiner Library.________. A Sound Outlook for Today and a Genuine Hope for the Future.Lectures of June 25 to August 6, 1918, manuscript trans. Ghent, NY:Rudolf Steiner Library________. The Temple Legend. trans. John M. Wood, London: Rudolf SteinerPress, 1985.________. The Wrong and the Right Use of Esoteric Knowledge. rev. trans.C.D., London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1966.21
Page 3 and 4: The Riddle of AmericaEssays Explori
Page 5 and 6: Table of ContentsAcknowledgments .
Page 7 and 8: The Sacred in Latino Experience: lo
Page 9 and 10: IntroductionbyJohn H. Wulsin, Jr.In
Page 11 and 12: perhaps the most popular poet of th
Page 13 and 14: OraibibyEdward WarrenOraibi--the ce
Page 15 and 16: Awakening Spiritual Consciousnessth
Page 17 and 18: where he created the center called
Page 19 and 20: The Legend as TeacherIn spite of th
Page 21 and 22: The Ramapo SalamanderbyDavid AdamsT
Page 23 and 24: and to drive her father mad. Then h
Page 25 and 26: Stegmann describes a number of fact
Page 27 and 28: tism. Iron has the beneficial funct
Page 29 and 30: When the handsome angel saves Mary
Page 31: found in Paul M. Allen, ed., A Chri
Page 35 and 36: with the etheric geography, we beco
Page 37 and 38: The Morphology of North AmericaWe q
Page 39 and 40: Effects of Geography on the Physica
Page 41 and 42: Boreal forest in Canadaseverity of
Page 43 and 44: middle. All ofthese resourceshave a
Page 45 and 46: eady. Further west, wefind active v
Page 47 and 48: Mississippi and the Colorado, drain
Page 49 and 50: a system of writing used by the anc
Page 51 and 52: the pagan Indians) are out there wa
Page 53 and 54: He is trying to prove that the indi
Page 55 and 56: Another example of this phenomenon
Page 57 and 58: and is nothing less than the author
Page 59 and 60: The Peruvian shaman Carlos Castaned
Page 61 and 62: the four main areas (the physical l
Page 63 and 64: Cook, Grace. The Sun Men of the Ame
Page 65 and 66: Example: Boulder, ColoradoProfile:
Page 67 and 68: North of the BorderbyPhilip Thatche
Page 69 and 70: “poured like seas” all the way
Page 71 and 72: And now the channel opens. But noth
Page 73 and 74: HistoryIn mid-river we join the anc
Page 75 and 76: in particular those settlers from t
Page 77 and 78: hune’s concern for others led him
Page 79 and 80: 7. Op. cit., pp. 61-63, 71-72.8. Ma
Page 81 and 82: It was also during the Permian peri
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time the white man arrived here. A
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ly to the south and west, except fo
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these forces was essential for harm
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courageously ready to dedicate one
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TexasbyHilmar MooreTexas joined the
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and many exist today, still in use.
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An industrious and orderly people;
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There was a grand, wild freedom, an
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Music and Manners:The American Expe
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ecame louder. At one end of the par
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Nevertheless, the title allows a ra
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at a definite time. When the opport
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It is not necessary to speculate ab
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What Is “American” in American
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he would conceptually synthesize an
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Cole was clear that the emphasis on
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Hudson River School), but its suppo
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expressions. Some of these wildly p
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Figure 6. Winslow Homer, Undertow,
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themes, was a weak draftsman, and f
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a heavier, more material medium tha
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including as much engineering as ar
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applied from without.” Wright wor
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had been carefully removed in lumin
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organic forms more to evoke the inn
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awe-inspiring power and mystery of
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mistakes. The painting comes out of
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a mess. Otherwise, there is pure ha
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there is a continuity of bothrealit
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divisions, and the bleeding of the
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were Reuben Nakian, Theodore Roszak
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Cage, explored ways to limit the ar
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The original personal images develo
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Studio relate to Johns’struggles
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As one of the top illustrators on M
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effect, dematerialized theirorigina
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idea, and not the activity of const
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Lisle, Laurie. Portrait of an Artis
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In one poem, to her book, she write
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mother, England. Literarily, after
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So Ada quite naturally thought the
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the beginning and the end: and that
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If the influence of Calvin can be s
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Vishnu, both the Primeval Cosmic Ma
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Emerson suggests man’s soul is co
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How did Emerson through his thinkin
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Supreme Being does not build up nat
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call of this period is for freedom.
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own soul between intellect and acti
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him, nor fire burn him, isa type of
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Culture, the height of culture, hig
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to be the liberation of the will fr
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Private and public is equivalent to
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lectures on Aquinas published as Th
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In other words, Emerson agrees with
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Toward an American LanguagebyThornt
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does he confront them outside the c
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collision with my obligation to say
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ing further back into the wildernes
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estated it by saying that the inter
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wonder that the English developed t
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It would seem as though I were abou
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Melville’s emotion is under power
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the matador sees the bull dashing t
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Before I enter upon a discussion of
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“The whale shed off enticings.”
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Wherein do these paragraphs from Mo
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The American LonelinessbyThornton W
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Thoreau illustrates certain America
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NATURE: As early as 16 July 1861, T
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that farewell address to “our dea
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Similarly, there are aspects of Tho
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Emily DickinsonbyThornton WilderGer
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That is to say, she shall have the
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overswayed. Their growth in the aff
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did love maturely we have ample evi
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would have been five steps forward
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animals and plants about her has no
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Rudolf Steiner tells us that Emerso
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came a second time; and Jonah, brui
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Whitman makes frequent use of perso
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Carl SandburgDespite the fact that
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The Thief Who Kindly SpokebyMichael
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Now to the song itself. It begins t
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The joker as the ordinary worldly e
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ut turn around to examine the mirac
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Mary Oliver, Inspired TeacherbyJean
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To Each Her HoneybyLara WulsinMary
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“Every spring,” (line 24) with
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Choosing America as a Placefor Inca
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In the Morning: A star above one’
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Double chooses, as it were, the hum
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Endnotes1. Given in London on the e
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Party and was the place where Mexic
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If even God suffered the crucifixio
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ciso Martínez and Tito Puente, San
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What does it mean to be born a West
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tal plains, rising gradually for mo
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Trust thyself; every heart vibrates
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spoke to his people just weeks befo
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of human beings, of support from th
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e recognized. For example, the cult
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considered necessary in relation to
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Movement in America:And So—What
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Now watch the Germans over there, n
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increase in the use of technology,
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and European-American sources. Only
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King, Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do W
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Americans earned two dollars per da
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the actions of our spiritual I. …
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Why do we teach Parzival? After Par
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disturbed or destroyed.” One can
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I would like to mention the words g
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Through the direct experience of st
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need to find what connects us not w
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and gardening to Waldorf schooling
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insights result. In considering the
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cording to Bacon. He also denounced
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the entire world. Thus, workers, sl
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At the end of his second lecture in
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chine, were unable to secure even a
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garbagemen, who sought union recogn
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Freedom, Thinking, and Individualit
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Thus the epochal separation of powe
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without attempting either to inspir
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But now it really is “We the Peop
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“an insoluble problem; on one sid
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life in the ideal and the real worl
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The Enlightenment: An Interpretatio
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maintained as a matter of right, at
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2. Even Franklin felt this and reco
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Anthroposophy and the Spirit of Ame
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(in the American Theosophist, 74, 1
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in this country is coupled with it.
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artists, writers, and musicians fil
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But this does not actually explain
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spirit revelation. People are still
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Doesn’t this sound as if it could
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Biographies of ContributorsDavid Ad
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Joseph Glosemeyer had a life-changi
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1988, she was asked to join the fac
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John Wulsin grew up in Cincinnati,
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