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07.44

“Norman Mailer.” The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books. Edited by J. Peder Zane. New York: Norton, 95. In an accompanying note, said that with the exceptions of Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks and Jorge Luis Borges’ Labyrinths, the books “I think of as great were read when I was still a young and unpublished writer.” His list: Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, Pride and Prejudice, U.S.A., Moby-Dick, The Red and the Black, Buddenbrooks, Labyrinths. See 89.14, 99.10, 99.11.
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07.45

“The Naked and the Dead: Excerpt from unpublished 1942 play.” Mailer Review, 34–43. Act 3, scene 3 from the play that wrote from 31 August to 14 September 1942, and based on his experience working as an orderly at the Boston State Hospital (formerly the Lunatic Asylum) in the Mattapan section of Boston.
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07.46

“ ‘A Series of Tragicomedies’: Mailer’s Letters on The Deer Park.” Mailer Review, 44–76. Sixteen letters from to friends and associates, including William Styron, Robert Lindner, Mickey Knox and his Japanese translator, Eiichi Yamanishi, in which Mailer describes the long, agonizing process of completing and publishing his third novel, The Deer Park (55.4), published by Putnam’s on 14 October 1955 after being turned down by seven publishers. Rpt: fifteen of the letters are collected in 14.3.
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07.47

Journals: 1952-2000, by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. New York: Penguin. met Schlesinger in the early 1950s, when they were on a panel about the 1930s with Norman Podhoretz and Mary McCarthy at Columbia University, and they remained friends. In the 80s and 90s, he and Norris often socialized with the Schlesingers. In July 1960, Schlesinger was at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis when Mailer interviewed Kennedy, and he provides context for their meeting. He also reports that Bill Walton, a close friend of the Kennedys, told him that Mrs. Kennedy agreed with Mailer’s unflattering description of her in Esquire (see 62.12) when she gave a February 1962 tour of the White House on national television. Schlesinger also reports being at a 60th birthday party for Mailer hosted by J.F.K.’s sister, Pat Lawford Kennedy, and a January 1990 dinner at which Mailer described J.F.K. as “the most priapic President.” At that dinner, Mailer went on to discuss Thomas Pynchon (“I haven’t been able to finish a Pynchon novel”); his tolerance for Roy Cohn; and his admiration for Henry Kissinger (“the kind of man I would go to for intelligent advice”). Schlesinger also reports a conversation he had with Norris about Mailer’s affair with Carol Mallory, and how it almost destroyed their marriage. Norris: “I told him that, if he ever does anything like this again, I will leave him at once and forever.” There are several more entries concerning Mailer, all of interest.
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07.5

“Norman Mailer Invokes the Devil to Take on Hitler.” Article-interview by Michael Lee. Cape Cod Voice, 18 January-31 January, 4–5, 19–22. Long, fascinating discussion of Hitler and evil. Asked if the burning of the bees in the novel (07.10) was a metaphor for the Holocaust, says, “I wasn’t trying to make this a railroad track as to how Hitler became a monster.” Mailer also talks about the unconscious:
Rpt: Literary Review 50 (summer 2007), 202–117.
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07.6

“Tough Guys Don’t Quit.” Article-interview by Gregory Kirschling. Entertainment Weekly, 19 January, 48–51. Focus is on The Castle in the Forest (07.10) defends his depiction of Hitler’s origins: “If we can believe that God or Gabriel was present at the conception of Jesus, then it seems to me we can believe that the Devil was present at the conception of Jesus.” Mailer concludes the interview by saying “I feel more sane than I’ve ever felt in my life.”
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07.7

“In Conversation . . . with Norman Mailer.” Interview by Daniel Asa Rose. Washington Post Book World, 21 January, 7. In this brief exchange, notes that his “relationship with my father was very interesting. Not hostile, but never near. I couldn’t reach him. He was an exceptionally complex man.”
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07.8

“My Friend Norman.” Memoir by Michael Lee. Hartford Courant, 21 January, G1, G8. Lee recalls how boxer-poet Eddie Bonetti introduced him to Mailer in the 1980s, and how they became friends. tells him that he wrestled with the narrative voice of The Castle in the Forest (07.10), and thought originally of having the Devil tell the story, but then ratcheted it down and gave the task to one of the Devil’s minions.
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07.9

“Mailer on Bush, Obama & Writing.” Article-interview by Colin Miner. New York Sun, 22 January, 15. notes that he was stimulated to write his Hitler novel by reading Ron Rosenbaum’s nonfiction book, Explaining Hitler. Mailer notes that while “spiritually” he remains a New Yorker, he spends most of his time in Provincetown, and only about 20 days a year in New York. When the subject turns to politics, Mailer comments, Obama, Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush, who he finds “not deep enough to be evil.” He also explains that the trilogy which Ancient Evenings (83.18) initiated was to end “on a spaceship with a few select humans, with earth no longer around, looking for a new planet.”
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08.1

“In the Ring: Grappling with the Twentieth Century.” New Yorker, 6 October, 50–63. Thirty-eight letters from to various correspondents from 1945–1988. Edited by J. Michael Lennon. Rpt: Eighteen of the letters are collected in 14.3.
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08.3

George, Being George. Edited by Nelson W. Aldrich, Jr. New York: Random House, 21 October 2008. An oral biography of George Plimpton, who died in 2003, with recollections from over 200 friends and colleagues, including a number from . See 77.13.
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08.6

“The Bodily Function Blues.” Mailer Review, 221–223. ’s lyrics, to be sung to the tune of W.C. Handy’s “St. Louis Blues,” written when a sophomore at Harvard. With Note by J. Michael Lennon. Mailer sang variations of it at family gatherings well into his 80s, delivering it with gusto and exaggerated earthiness in his baritone voice.
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08.7

“What’s Wrong with America: Five Proposals.” With introductory note by J. Michael Lennon. Mailer Review, 216–218. Written as part of a 1992 Chrysler Corporation project advertising supplement that would extol Chrysler cars and be accompanied by “ideas you don’t want to hear” from a variety of writers. The project was abandoned. One of ’s proposals was to limit advertising. Mailer also called for the elimination of the copper penny, and a law forbidding doctors to be sued for malpractice.
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08.8

Mailer Review. The 2008 double issue contains all the statements made by 25 individuals, members of ’s family and his friends, at the 9 April 9, 2008 memorial program for Mailer at Carnegie Hall, “The Time of His Time: A Celebration of the Life of Norman Mailer”, sponsored by Mailer’s publisher, Random House, and produced by Norris Church Mailer, Lawrence Schiller, Carol Schneider, and J. Michael Lennon. Mailer is quoted innumerable times in these eulogies, and in many others collected in this volume.
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09.1

“A Man of Letters.” Edited by J. Michael Lennon. Playboy, January, 70–72, 142–148. Twenty-eight letters, 1952–2008, to 23 different individuals, including Gore Vidal, James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Lillian Ross and Gordon Lish. Twenty-four of the letters are reprinted in 14.3.
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09.2

“Norman Mailer: Letters on Writing.” Edited by J. Michael Lennon. New York Review of Books, 12 February, 19–20. Four letters, 1946–1952, to his parents, Adeline Lubell, Max Gissen, and Lilian Hellman. All four are reprinted in 14.3.
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09.3

“Norman Mailer: ‘Deer Park’ Letters.” Edited by J. Michael Lennon. New York Review of Books, 26 February, 19–20, 22. Six letters, 1953–1955, written while was writing The Deer Park (55.4), or just afterwards. Four are to William Styron, one to James Jones, and one to Vance Bourjaily. All six are reprinted in 14.3.
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09.4

“Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Abbott.” Edited by J. Michael Lennon. New York Review of Books, 12 March, 26–28. Five letters, 1959–1988, two to Abbott, one each to Alfred Kazin, Arnold Kemp, and Helen Morris. All five are reprinted in 14.3. See 89.14.
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09.5

“Mailer’s Final Legacy.” Article-interview by Sue Fox. Times (London), 8 August, 8. Memoir with quotes from in the hospital just before he died, and from John Buffalo Mailer, Norris Church Mailer, Lawrence Schiller and Dwayne Raymond, Mailer’s assistant.
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10.1

Mornings with Mailer: A Recollection of Friendship. By Dwayne Raymond. New York: HarperCollins, 26 January. Memoir of ’s last days in Provincetown by his assistant from 2003 to Mailer’s death in 2007. Contains many quotations from Mailer and a detailed depiction of his domestic and professional life during his final years.
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10.2

A Ticket to the Circus. By Norris Church Mailer. New York: Random House, 10 April 2010. Memoir by ’s sixth wife, who he was married to for 27 years. Includes numerous remembered words from her husband, and several of his love letters to her. Rpt: 11.4,See “From A Ticket to the Circus.” and 14.3 (partial in both).
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10.3

Norman Mailer: Moonfire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11. Conceived by Lawrence Schiller. Text edited by J. Michael Lennon. Introduction by Colum McCann. Los Angeles: Taschen Books, 1 June. 345 pp., oversize, $40. Abridged version of Of a Fire on the Moon (71.1), with hundreds of photographs and maps from NASA, magazine archives and private collections.
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11.1

“Norman Mailer's Eclectic Life, as Seen Through His Last Home.” Article-interview by Joseph Berger. New York Times, 2 May. A portrait of ’s Brooklyn Heights apartment, with his son Michael giving a guided tour. Mailer’s words are recalled by Michael. He said to him in his later years: “I could not have been the writer I am today and been more of a father to you.” Michael answered, “I’d take quality over quantity any day.”
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11.2

Norman Mailer/Bert Stern/Marilyn Monroe. Conceived by Lawrence Schiller. Photographs by Bert Stern. Text edited by J. Michael Lennon. Los Angeles: Taschen, 12 December. 275 pp., oversize, $69.99. An abridged version of Marilyn: A Biography (73.30). Approximately 50 passages totaling 20,000 words were trimmed from the original text.
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11.4

“Norris Mailer: A Life in Words.” Mailer Review (2011). The first 166 pages of this issue are devoted to remembrances of Norris Church Mailer, who died on 11 November 2010, including many words from her husband. Rpt: 10.2.
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13.2

Dedication: “To my wife, Donna Pedro Lennon, and Barbara Mailer Wasserman, with love and gratitude. And to the memory of Robert F. Lucid.” Authorized biography, with extensive quotations from ’s unpublished letters, interviews with him, and with 85 others—his family, friends, and literary associates. The prologue, “The Riptides of Fame: June 1948,” is reprinted here.
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13.3

====“Love-Buds.” Mailer Review, 10-22.====
Previously unpublished short story written in Mailer's senior year in college, 1942–1943. Preceded by a facsimile of the original manuscript from the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin.
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14.2

“An Excerpt from Mailer's Last Interview.” By J. Michael Lennon. Mailer Review, 17–20. discusses his friend Robert Lindner, and the founding of the Village Voice in this interview, conducted in Provincetown 18 September 2007, less than two months before his death.
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14.3

Dedication: “To Nancy A. Potter, with me from the start, with love and gratitude.” Seven hundred and fourteen letters, 1940 to 2007, selected from the approximately 45,000 wrote over his lifetime. Includes an introduction, 90 pages of notes, a select secondary bibliography, a list of Mailer’s books, and an index. See 04.7.
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14.4

Norman Mailer: JFK, Superman Comes to the Supermarket. Edited by Nina Wiener. Conceived by Lawrence Schiller. Art Direction by Josh Baker. Introduction by J. Michael Lennon. Los Angeles: Taschen, 5 December. 370 pp., $150, oversize. No dedication. 
Besides ’s 1960 report on the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles (60.9), and his essay on Jacqueline Kennedy (62.14), this 8 x 12 x 2.8 inch volume contains over 300 photographs of JFK’s 1960 presidential campaign, including one of the opening page of 60.9 where Mailer has crossed out “Supermart” and written in “Supermarket” (and signed his name), restoring what Esquire publisher Arnold Gingrich arbitrarily changed when the essay first appeared three weeks before the 1960 presidential election. See 60.9, 63.37.
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16.1

The Fight. Los Angeles: Taschen, 15 July. 260 pp., $700, oversize, abridged, limited edition of 1974 copies. No dedication. Edited by Nina Weiner. Conceived by Lawrence Schiller. Photos by Howard Bingham and Neil Leifer. Introduction by J. Michael Lennon.
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Isaac Barnett "Barney" Mailer, Mailer's father, born in Lithuania, 18 January. After WWI service in London, he arrives in U.S. in 1919, and stays with his sister Anne and her husband, David Kessler.
Fanny "Fan" Schneider, Mailer's mother, born in Lithuania, late December. Arrives in U.S. in 1894.
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1923

Norman Kingsley Mailer (Nachum Melech) born in Long Branch, NJ, on 31 January. Mailer's parents live with Fan's family in Long Branch, at first on Morris Ave., and then in "Kingsley Court", a cluster of three large beach "cottages" at Beach and Ocean Avenues, owned by Fan's parents, and named after Norman.
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1932

In January, Mailers move to 555 Crown Street in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn in January. Mailer transfers to P.S. 161, where he skips two half-year terms. In the winter of 1933-34 under the influence of Edgar Rice Burroughs' fantasy novels about Mars, and the "Flash Gordon" radio program, he writes a long science fiction story, "The Martian Invasion".
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1939

Mailer graduates from Boy's High School near the top of his 650-member class in June, and in late September enters Harvard planning to study aeronautical engineering. He was also accepted by M.I.T., but preferred Harvard, partly because M.I.T. required a year of prep school is required, and partly because the name Harvard resonated with Brooklyn girls.
Discovers American literature over the winter (1939–1940), including James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan, Dos Passos's U.S.A., and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. In 1940, he reads D.H. Lawrence's unexpurgated (and unpublished in the U.S.) novel Lady Chatterley's Lover in the Treasure Room of the Widener Library. He said later that it "changed my sex life, or rather, accelerated it". Mailer loses his virginity to a Cambridge girl in late 1940.
File:1937 NM with model.jpg|Mailer with model airplane, 1937.
File:1939 NM.jpg|Mailer in 1939.
File:1939-NM.jpg|Mailer in 1939.
File:1939 NM, Barbara, Alex Mailer.jpg|Norman, Barbara and Uncle Alec Mailer in front of the Scarboro in 1939.
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1941

takes a two-semester writing course (1940–1941) from Robert Gorham Davis, who becomes his first writing mentor. He writes several stories for the class, including “The Greatest Thing in the World” (41.1).
In April, Mailer is accepted to the editorial board of the college's literary magazine, The Harvard Advocate, which that same month publishes “The Greatest Thing in the World.” In late spring, it wins Story magazine's eighth annual college contest and a $100 prize, and gains some attention from New York publishers. In May, he is elected to the Signet Society, a merit-based luncheon club. In September, completes "No Percentage", a novel (408 manuscript pages) set in Long Branch and Brooklyn, still unpublished.
In mid-December, meets his first wife, Beatrice Silverman, a Boston University music major who lives in nearby Chelsea.
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1944

Drafted into the U.S. Army in January. On 7 January, he marries Bea, who joins the Waves and is commissioned.
In February, completes his second novel, A Transit to Narcissus (also based on his work at Boston State Hospital), which is not published until 1978.
On 27 March, is inducted into the army at Camp Upton on Long Island. His novella about combat in the South Pacific, "A Calculus at Heaven", written his senior year, is included in Edwin Seaver's Cross-Section: A Collection of American Writing, published in May.
In August, after four months of training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he is sent to Fort Ord, California as an artillery trainee.
On 6 December, he ships out on the U.S.S. Sea Barb from San Francisco, arriving in New Guinea, Hollandia Harbor, on December 25, and on 29 December at Leyte Gulf, Philippines. Reads Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West, two works that influenced him deeply.
File:1944 Barbara Mailer.jpg|Barbara Mailer, 1942.
File:1944 Summer - NM - Fort Bragg.jpg|Mailer at Fort Bragg, Summer 1944.
File:1944-Beatrice-Mailer.jpg|Beatrice Mailer, 1944.
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1945

On 27 January, he is transferred to the 112th Cavalry Regimental Combat Team in Leyte. He serves in General MacArthur's Luzon campaign in the Philippines as a clerk, a wire lineman, and several other positions, and in April volunteers to be a rifleman in a reconnaissance platoon, where he experiences combat, a few firefights and skirmishes. After the war ends he becomes a cook in occupied Japan. He is promoted to Tech 5 and becomes head cook, but is then demoted to private for insubordination shortly before being rotated home in April 1946. Meets Francis Irby "Fig" Gwaltney (same outfit) from Arkansas, who in 1975 will introduce him to his sixth wife, Norris Church. Celia Mailer dies.
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1946

Discharged from the Army on 2 May at Ft. Dix, NJ.
From June to September, he and Bea rent a unit at Crow's Nest Cottages, North Truro, near Provincetown, MA, and he begins work on his war novel using many of the hundreds of letters written to his wife and family. He will spend the greater part of most summers for the next six decades in Provincetown, the artists' colony at the tip of Cape Cod.
Mailer's friend Adeline Lubell, an editor at Little, Brown, reads 184 pages of his manuscript, but no contract is offered by Little, Brown because of a negative evaluation by Bernard DeVoto, and the novel's obscene language. Mailer then turns to the New York firm of Rinehart. In November, they offer and Mailer accepts a $1250 advance for The Naked and the Dead (48.2).
File:1946 NM in Brooklyn.jpg|Mailer in Brooklyn, 1946.
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1947

Completes The Naked and the Dead while living at 49 Remsen Street in Brooklyn, around the corner from his parents' home. Turns in the completed manuscript to Rinehart in September.
On 3 October, he and Bea leave on RMS Queen Elizabeth for Europe. Both study French language and culture at the Sorbonne on the G.I. Bill.
In Paris, he begins Barbary Shore, and meets Jean Malaquais, who later becomes his lifelong friend and mentor on Marxism and the Russian Revolution. For most of their time in Paris, the Mailers live at 11 Rue Bréa. They are joined in Paris by Mailer's parents and sister, and they later travel to southern France and Italy.
File:1948 NM and Beatrice Silverman.jpg|Mailer with Beatrice, Brooklyn, 1948.
File:1948-Sorbonne-graduation-certificate.jpg|Sorbonne graduation certificate, 1948.
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1948

On 6 May The Naked and the Dead (48.2) is published. It tops the New York Times best seller list for 11 straight weeks during the spring and summer, and remains on the list for a total of 61 weeks, including 19 in the top position and 43 in the top five. The novel is nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the Gutenberg Award, and the Associated Press names Mailer "Man of the Year" in literature.
Mailer returns from Europe on 20 July to meet with Lillian Hellman, who was interested in turning Naked into a play, and to campaign for Progressive Party presidential candidate Henry Wallace, making 20 speeches in New York and California. After the election, Mailer and Bea move to a rented house in Jamaica, VT where they live from 7 January to 7 May.
File:1948-Naked-Dead-cover-credit-G.-Maillard-Kesslere-B.P..jpg|Cover photo for The Naked and the Dead, 1948. Photo credit: G. Maillard Kesslere.
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File:The-harvard-freshmen-redbook-1948 22820862468 o.jpg|Harvard Freshmen Redbook, 1948.
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1949

resumes work on Barbary Shore (51.1).
From 25 to 27 March he attends and speaks at the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace (Waldorf Conference) in New York, which is attacked as a Communist front in Life magazine (4 April). Meets Dwight Macdonald, Mary McCarthy and Robert Lowell at the conference.
In June, the Mailers move to Hollywood, where they are joined by Jean and Galy Malaquais.
Susan born to Bea 28 August.
Finishes first draft of Barbary Shore.
Mailer and Malaquais work unsuccessfully on scripts for Samuel Goldwyn, who Mailer admires.
Meets Lois Mayfield Wilson, with whom he has long, intimate relationship, although he sees her only once or twice a year.
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1950

In June, the Mailers return to Provincetown. He completes work on the final version of Barbary Shore (51.1) in Putney, VT, where they live from October to September 1951.
File:1950 Thoughtful NM.jpg|Thoughtful Mailer, c. 1950.
File:1950 Bea and NM.jpg|Bea and NM, c. 1950.
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