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87.3a

“Mr. Peepers: PEN Goes the Way of All Flesh.” Article-interview by unidentified writer. New York, 13 April, 29–30. Description of a January 1987 PEN fundraising luncheon at the Park Avenue apartment of Saul and Gayfryd Steinberg, attended by , Allen Ginsberg, Frances FitzGerald, Elaine Kaufman, Donald Trump, Vartan Gregorian and others. Mailer introduced Gregorian as “the pope of literary fund-raisers, and I’m like a young cardinal.”
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87.4

“Mailer Gives Film Another Fling with ‘Guys.’” Article-interview by Todd McCarthy. Variety, 4 May, 2, 13, 14. discusses the various screenplays he has written: King Lear for Jean-Luc Godard, Once Upon a Time in America for Sergio Leone, one on mobster Meyer Lansky for producer Martin Starger at Universal, and Henry Miller’s Sexus for Interscope and producers Joe Wizan and Marcia Nasatir. The possibility that Sidney Lumet might direct a screenplay of The Deer Park (55.4) by Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne is also discussed in this useful piece. See 84.17, 1986 and 1987 entries.
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87.5

“The Calm Comes to Cannes: But Not Entirely, as Norman Mailer Brings Out His ‘Tough Guys.’” Article-interview by Rita Kempley. Washington Post, 18 May, Sec. C, pp. 1, 3. is quoted briefly on Tough Guys Don’t Dance (which was screened outside the competition at Cannes because Mailer was a juror) in this potpourri on the festival. See 84.17, 1986 and 1987 entries.
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87.6

“Mailer, [Jean-Luc] Godard, [Lillian] Gish Bask in the Spotlight.” Article-interview by Jay Carr. Boston Globe, 18 May, 24, 27. Another article on the Cannes Film Festival with again comparing directing and writing: “My idea of an ideal life at this time is to write a book, direct a movie, and so on.” Mailer was a juror in the film competition. See 84.17, 1986 and 1987 entries.
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87.7

“Mailer Hangs Tough Despite the Critics.” Article-interview by Jeannie Williams. USA Today, 18 May, Sec. D, p. 7. Early, negative reviews of the film version of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17) are cited in this piece about at Cannes. Mailer says, “I think my film lies somewhere in a no-man’s land between a murder mystery, a suspense tale, a film of horror and a comedy of manners.” See 1986 and 1987 entries.
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87.8

“Pialat Film Gets Top Prize at Cannes.” Article by Vincent Canby. New York Times, 20 May, Sec. C, p. 24. Canby praises Tough Guys Don’t Dance in this overview of the Cannes Film Festival. is quoted briefly. See 84.17, 1986 and 1987 entries.
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87.9

“Camera Angles: Reporters on the Set of ‘Tough Guys. Article-interview by Bonnie Barber and Gregory Katz. Provincetown Arts 3 (summer), 18-20, 116–117; cover photograph of by Joel Meyerowitz. Interleaved perspectives by Barber and Katz about the filming of Tough Guys Don’t Dance in Provincetown. One of the best of the on-the-set pieces, with long quotes from Mailer and Ryan O’Neal, who compares Mailer’s directorial style to Stanley Kubrick’s. See 84.17, 1986 and 1987 entries.
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88.0

“F & F Interview: U.S. Male.” Article-interview by Allan Hunter. Films and Filming, January, 6–7. says that he hopes his film version of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17) will be seen as a “highly exaggerated statement about life in America, the way that an expressionist painter exaggerates everything.” Mailer also details the background of how the film came to be made, including comment on the film version of The Naked and the Dead (48.2), and the roles of Tom Luddy and Jean-Luc Godard in the making of Tough Guys.
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88.1

“A Conversation with Norman Mailer.” By Barry H. Leeds. Connecticut Review 10 (spring), 1–15. In a revealing interview with the author of the first book-length study of ’s work (The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer, New York University Press, 1969), Mailer discusses a number of topics surrounding the violence of modern life: AIDS, cancer, the Bernard Goetz case, prize-fighting, the police and criminals. Further, he discusses several writers: Mario Puzo, Ernest Hemingway, James Jones, Ken Kesey, Joan Didion and Harry Crews. Mailer also gives his fullest answer to the question of why he abandoned the trilogy of which Ancient Evenings (83.18) was to have been the first volume. Finally, he discusses moviemaking, his own and Clint Eastwood’s. Rpt: 88.6.
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88.10

“Novelists Get the Credits: Mailer, Kennedy Have Reel Clout in Adaptations.” Article-interview by Michael Kilian. Chicago Tribune, 4 November, Sec. 2 (“Tempo”), 2. and William Kennedy discuss adaptations of their novels to screen at the Virginia Film Festival in Charlottesville, Va. Mailer notes that he hopes Harlot’s Ghost (91.26) will be done in two years.
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88.11

“The Changing of the Guard.” Playboy, December, 86–88, 196–98. Advance excerpt from Harlot’s Ghost (91.26). Rpt: This excerpt (taken from the first pages of chapter 2, in “Omega-2,”) is an account of Hubbard’s affair with Chloe. A comparison with the final, book version demonstrates Mailer’s editorial scalpel; hardly a paragraph is untouched.
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88.12

“Norman Mailer: The Tough Guy is Really a Cuddly Jewish Teddy Bear.” Profile-interview by Pearl Sheffy Gefen. Lifestyles (International Edition), Vol. 92, 62–64. was interviewed by this Jewish cultural magazine during a visit to Montreal about his film version of Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17), and spoke of his film and his Jewishness: “Being Jewish is a whole inner way of life, and the Holocaust took away any possibility of telling myself I wasn’t Jewish.”
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88.3

“Writer Needs ‘Stability’ Novelist Mailer Advises.” Article by George Smith. Times-Leader (Wilkes-Barre, Pa.), 11 May, Sec. B, p. 1. Report on a visit to the University of Scranton on 10 May. ’s remarks on novel-writing are quoted briefly.
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88.4

“No, PEN Decides, It Won’t Invite the Pope to Join.” Article by Walter Goodman. New York Times, 17 May, Sec. C, p. 20. is only paraphrased in this piece, which describes his attempt to convince the American Chapter of PEN to offer an honorary membership to Pope John Paul II based on his recent encyclical, “On Social Concern,” and other writings. He was opposed by PEN’s president Susan Sontag (who succeeded him) and novelist Maureen Howard, and the proposal never made it formally onto the floor.
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88.5

“A Piece of Harlot’s Ghost.” Esquire, July, 80–82, 84–90; cover photograph of . First advance excerpt from then-unpublished novel (91.26) of the same name about the CIA. Rpt: This excerpt, a much-compressed and altered version of chapters 2 and 3 of “Early Years, Early Training,” part 1 of “The Alpha Manuscript,” describes the Maine rock-climbing of Hubbard and Harlot. The excerpt is accompanied by boxed photographs of Mailer and notes on his career, including the comment that this is “his first fiction for Esquire since An American Dream.” See 64.2–64.9.
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88.6

=====Conversations with Norman Mailer, edited by J. Michael Lennon. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 31 July, 396 pp., $26.95.=====
Collection of 34 previously published interviews, including three self-interviews. Contains introduction, chronology of 's life and index.
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88.9

“Norman Mailer Burning as His Democrats Fiddle.” Article-interview by Mary Ann Grossmann. St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, 24 October. Telephone interview in advance of ’s 24 October appearance at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Mailer comments briefly on novel-writing, movie-making, and politics in this error-laden piece. “I thought the ’80s were going to have a little spark,” he said. “Ronald Reagan took care of that. We’ve had watered-down maple syrup for eight years.”
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88.9a

“Personalities.” Squib in gossip column. By Chuck Conconi. Washington Post, 3 November, C3. At a Washington D.C. book party hosted by the National Intelligence Study Center, said he had written 100 pages of a spy novel (Harlot’s Ghost, 91.26), and was there to get a little atmosphere. “The nice thing about being a novelist is you don’t have to tell the truth. Atmosphere is what you’re looking for.”
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89.0

“Lend Me Your Ear.” Squib by Howard G. Chau-Eoan. Time, 23 January, 60. Speaking at a New York City retrospective of his films, commented on how the staged hammer attack in Maidstone by Rip Torn, followed by Mailer biting Torn’s ear, affected the film. “In Rip’s view, everything made perfect sense. He may have saved the film.”
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89.1

“Norman Mailer Chills Out.” Article-interview by Janet Barker. Daily Breeze (Los Angeles County), 30 January, Sec. C (“Life/Arts”), pp. 1–2. On the occasion of a lecture at Congregation New Tamid in Rancho Palos Verdes, Cal., Mailer spoke with Barker about his life as a writer. He said he was more than 1,000 pages into Harlot’s Ghost (91.26) and explained, “When I’m writing a novel, I work at least 200 days a year, maybe 250. I write about five or six pages a day.”
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89.10

“Harlot’s Ghost: An Excerpt.” Story 37 (Autumn), 10-13. Advance excerpt from novel of same title (91.26). In a note prefacing this excerpt (which erroneously notes that was a chemistry major at Harvard), Mailer is quoted on the importance of winning the Story college short story contest in 1941: “Obviously it was one of the most important experiences of my life up to then. In those days, for a young writer to be published in Story was enough to give you the beginning of a real certainty that perhaps you were meant to be a writer.” Rpt: This excerpt (taken from the conclusion of chapter 1, part 1, “Early Years, Early Training,” of “The Alpha Manuscript”) describes a lunch at “21.” In the final version, Mailer makes several small but significant changes. See 41.1.
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89.11

“Cosmic Ventures: A Meditation of God at War.” Esquire, December, 156–157. refines his ideas on the nature of God first given in “Hip, Hell and the Navigator” (59.2): “It has occurred to me since, despite my reputation as a male chauvinist, that God may be referred to as ‘She’ as legitimately (for all we know) as ‘He,’ or, even better, as ‘They,’ if one can conceive of divinity as marriage between a godlike Male and Female, a marriage, indeed that may not work a great deal better than the majority of ours!” Rpt: Living Philosophies: The Reflections of Some Eminent Men and Women of Our Time, edited by Clifton Fadiman. New York: Doubleday, 1990. See 75.2, 75.11, 82.15, 83.45.
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89.12

“Norman Mailer Complains about Mention in ‘Tru.’” Article by Glenn Collins. New York Times, 21 December, 28. Report on a disagreement between and Jay Presson Allen, author of “Tru,” a one-man Broadway play about Truman Capote, starring Robert Morse.
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89.13

Introduction to Messages: New and Selected Poems, 1969-1989, by Luke Breit, 5–8. Fort Bragg, CA: Q.E.D. Press, 1989. Softcover. praises Bret (son of Mailer’s friend, the late Harvey Breit) for being “one of the best romantic poets we’ve got” and for giving him a lift. “Luke Breit is Doctor Breit, Traffic Consultant for locked-up synapses and fucked-up grace.”
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89.14

“Norman Mailer: Ten Favorite American Novels.” The Reader’s Catalog: An Annotated Selection of More than 40,000 of the Best Books in Print in 208 Categories. Edited by Geoffrey O’Brien with Stephen Wasserstein and Helen Morris. New York: Jason Epstein/Random House. ’s ten favorite American novels are in a box on page 259, one of a number of such brightener inserts in this mammoth catalog. He notes that except for Huckleberry Finn, he read the other nine in his first year of college: “Freshman year at Harvard is luminous because of these books.” They are, in his order of importance: U.S.A., Huckleberry Finn, Studs Lonigan, Look Homeward, Angel, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, Appointment in Samarra, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Moby-Dick. See 99.11, in which he lists the same books, same order. See also 99.10, 07.44, 09.4.
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89.1a

“Fear Strikes Book World.” Article-interview by Washington Post syndicated writers. Chicago Sun-Times, 18 February, 1, 8. Criticized in this news article for not speaking out in response to the death threat aimed at Salman Rushdie by Ayatollah Khomeini, , via a spokeswoman (his assistant Judith McNally), said, “Any concerns you’ve heard about security—that’s absolutely untrue. He was holding off. He will be speaking next Wednesday [23 February] along with other authors.” See 89.2–5.
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89.2

“We Must Be Willing to Die for Ideas.” USA Today, 23 February, Sec. A, p. 9. Excerpt from statement read in New York on 22 February at a meeting of hundreds of writers protesting the death threat against Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses. Rpt: 89.8. See 89.1a, 89.3–89.5, 93.9.
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89.3

“U.S. Muslims Urge Ban.” Article by Edwin McDowell. New York Times, 4 March, 3. At a 3 March news conference at United Nations Plaza called by the American Muslim Action Committee and by American writers who were supporting Salman Rushdie’s free speech, but were also seeking conciliation with the Muslims, , Robert K. Massie, J. Anthony Lukas and Letty Cottin Pogrebrin represented the writers. Mailer read a statement drafted by him expressing the position of the PEN American Center and the Authors Guild. Accompanied by Craig R. Whitney’s article, “Iran Rebuffs Britain on Rushdie’s Novel.” See 89.1a, 89.2, 89.4, 89.5, 89.8, 93.9.
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89.4

“U.S. Writers, Moslems Meet.” Article by Vivienne Walt. Newsday, 4 March. A second report on the meeting of U.S. writers and Muslims seeking common ground on the Salman Rushdie affair. See 89.1a, 89.2, 89.3, 89.5, 89.8, 93.9.
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89.5

“Words for Salman Rushdie.” New York Times Book Review, 12 March, 1, 28–29. In response to the Salman Rushdie crisis, 28 writers from 21 countries, offer words of support to him. , Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon and Susan Sontag represent the U.S. Mailer says: My country, right or wrong,’ Stephen Decatur said. That is faith. It seems all we writers who have no faith have been led back to one by your nightmare. The irony is that we have had it all along. We believe in freedom of expression as an absolute. How dangerous to use the word absolute, but you have pulled it forth from us—your health!” See 89.1a–89.4, 89.8, 93.9.
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89.5a

“Literary Influences.” A list of the literary influences of 53 writers. Compiled by Daniel Halpern. Antaeus 62 (spring), 232-44. lists the following: Jorge Luis Borges, John Dos Passos, Fyodor Dostoevski, James T. Farrell, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sir James Frazer, Ernest Hemingway, Karl Marx, Wilhelm Reich, Oswald Spengler, John Steinbeck, Stendhal, Leo Tolstoy.
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89.6

“Outrageously Fond of [Samuel] Goldwyn.” Letter to the editor. New York Times Book Review, 30 April, 24. corrects errors in Mordecai Richler’s 26 March review of Scott Berg’s Goldwyn, explaining that he did not pattern Herman Teppis in The Deer Park (55.4) on Goldwyn, “but L.B. Mayer (whom, in fact, I never met, but took pleasure in imagining).” Goldwyn, he continues, “treated me well—if eccentrically—and I remain outrageously fond of his memory.”
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89.6a

Letter to the Editor. The Humanist, July/August. ’s updates his definition of what a humanist is (his old one appeared in the October-November, 1951 issue), by stating that the Impressionist and post-Impressionists “were still painting out of a world where proportions of the human himself” were still in evidence, whereas in the current period art “is something much larger, much colder, and certainly more apathetic” to human life. Rpt: 14.3.
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89.8

“A Folly Repeated: On Conviction and Creative Freedom, as Reflected by the Salman Rushdie Controversy.” Writer’s Digest, July, 80, 78–79. Full statement read in New York on 22 February at a meeting of hundreds of writers in support of Salman Rushdie. Some of the writers present were Larry McMurtry, Don DeLillo, E.L. Doctorow, Susan Sontag, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, Diana Trilling, John Gregory Dunne, Edward Said, Mary Gordon, Robert Stone and Robert Caro. Rpt: 89.2; Salman Rushdie: Sentenced to Death, by W.J. Weatherby. New York: Carroll and Graf, 1990 (partial); 98.7. See 89.3–89.5, 93.9.
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89.9

“Checking In with Norman Mailer.” Interview with Carole Mallory. Smart, September-October, 96–102. Wide-ranging interview: ’s novel-in-progress, Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities, E.L. Doctorow’s Billy Bathgate, the media, greed and wealth in the 80s, his directorial aspirations, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, and abortion.
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90.1

“Norman Mailer: The Power of Sex.” Interview by Carole Mallory. M: The Civilized Man, February, 79–83, 146; cover photograph of . Discussion of marriage, sex and ego with asides on Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, Clint Eastwood, Sarah Ferguson and George Bush. Asked what is the chief difference between men and women, Mailer says, “If you’re talking about middle-class urban professional intellectuals who go to offices and work, the difference between them is 2 on a scale of 100.”
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90.2

Letter to Peter Balbert (31 January 1989). Rpt: In Balbert’s essay, “From Lady Chatterly’s Lover to The Deer Park: Lawrence, Mailer, and the Dialectic of Erotic Risk.” Studies in the Novel 22 (spring 1990), 67–81. explains his “spoof” of identifying a passage from The Deer Park (55.4) as being from Lawrence in one of his Esquire Big Bite columns (63.11), reprinted in Existential Errands (72.7).
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90.3

“A Doctor Is No Better than His Patient: An Interview with Norman Mailer.” Self-interview. Cosmopolitan, May, 332–333, 404. explains in a headnote that the questions he answers are a mixture of his own and those submitted by the editors of Cosmopolitan. One of Mailer’s most detailed discussions of sexual matters: timed orgasm, guilt, promiscuity, sex aids, loneliness and “the lost art of cleavage.” Asked if he has ever felt disloyal, he says, “Oh, yes. Absolutely. I’m haunted by it. When you have children, you feel your disloyalties more. There’s an indefinable integument that surrounds children.” See 73.40, 81.23.
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90.4

“In P-Town, a Night of Mailer and Memories.” Article by Jeff McLaughlin. Living, Boston Globe, 20 August, 44. Report on a benefit for the Provincetown Art Association and Museum at the home of Reggie Cabral, art collector and owner of the Atlantic House in Provincetown. read from his poems and Tough Guys Don’t Dance (84.17).
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90.5

“Library Hosts 1990 Hemingway Conference.” Article by unidentified writer. John F. Kennedy Library Newsletter, Fall, 3–4. At a conference at the J.F.K. Library, said of Hemingway, “He was maybe the most competitive American writer who ever lived. And that is an enormous remark.”
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91.1

“Children of the Pied Piper.” Vanity Fair, March, 154–159, 220–221. Review of American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis. The review’s lead-in notes that had accepted the position of writer-at-large at Vanity Fair. Rpt: (partial) 98.7, complete in 13.1. See 92.8.
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91.10

“The Old Man and the Novel.” Article-interview by Scott Spencer. New York Times Magazine, 22 September, 28–31, 40, 42, 47; cover photograph of by Joel Meyerowitz. On the eve of the publication of Harlot’s Ghost (91.26), Mailer spends two sessions with Spencer, who records Mailer’s comments along with his ambivalent feelings toward the man and the novel. Mailer talks on several of his favorite topics: identity and celebrity, the CIA as a bureaucracy, the Women’s Liberation movement, his competitiveness with other writers, fiction vs. nonfiction and the American establishment: “I’ll never be completely part of the establishment, because the establishment will never be completely comfortable with me. The establishment is not comfortable with anyone whose dimensions have not been calibrated.” Rpt: Guardian Weekend (London), 5–6 October, 19–22.
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91.12

“Norman Mailer, Company Man.” Article-interview by Charles Trueheart. Washington Post, 23 September, Sec. C, pp. 1, 4. Focused interview on 91.26 in which explains that, initially, “I was going to write about [James Jesus] Angleton,” and he planned a “huge feud” between him and Hugh “Harlot” Montague, but he decided against it because to use a real person, you must “know him so well that you won’t misrepresent him.” Also revealed is the price of the novel: $30, a new high for hardcover fiction.
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91.13

“The Espionage Lesson.” New York Review of Books, 26 September, 17–18, 20–21. Advance excerpt from 91.26. Rpt: Tenth advance excerpt (taken with a few minor changes from “The Alpha Manuscript,” part 3, “Washington,” last half of chapter 1 and all of chapter 2) which describes “High Thursday” seminars given to novice CIA agents by Hugh Montague.
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