We shall have everything we want and therell be no more dying but tongues in ears and no more drums but ears to thighs A scene of desire and of loss. There are also an imitation of Wallace Stevens (with a touch of Marianne Moore) titled "A Procession for Peacocks"; a strict sonnet; a litany; poems in quatrains; couplets, and heroic couplets; poems with faithful rhyme patterns; and various prose poems. unwilling to be either pertinent or bemused, but. Robert J. Bertholf, State University of New York at Buffalo. . From Frank O'Hara: Poet among Painters, new ed. Perloff calls it O'Hara's "most Byzantine and difficult poem," while even Ashbery in his introduction to the Collected Poems speaks of "the obfuscation that makes reading 'Second Avenue' such a difficult pleasure." O'Hara was at the forefront of the rise of the American avant-garde, helping elevate Abstract Expressionism, and . He studied at Harvard University (B.A., 1950) and the University of Michigan (M.A., 1951 . . An Analysis of the Poem "Upon a Spider Catching a Fly" by Taylor. . s mz-dessget izzad By Dan Chiasson. Learn New. and flesh or as the legends ride their heroes through the dark to found Find your perfect arrangement and access a variety of transpositions so you can print and play instantly, anywhere. Sad news for readers of Frank O'Hara: Vincent Warren, the ballet dancer who has often been described as the true love of O'Hara's life, passed away on October 25 at the age of 79, some 50 years after O'Hara himself. Frank O'Hara 1926-1966 (Full name Francis Russell O'Hara) American poet, essayist, playwright, and art critic. coffee) with Frank and Joe [O'Hara's roommate Joe LeSueur] at 326 East 49th Street, and the talk turned to Frank's unquenchable inspiration, in a teasing way on my part and Joe's. by the time I got around the corner, oh all. Frank O'Hara recounts the events of what at first seems like an unremarkable daylike any other. . Rate this book. Resonance of Whitman and great rolling tones are evident in the opening lines of "Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets":". tntorog plasztikai szksgletben a kjnek mely sose The long ode to Goldberg is more like the Romantic-- specifically Wordsworthian--ode than any of the others. His influence on the next generation of poetsincluding Bill Berkson, Alice Notley, and Ted Berriganwas immense. "Dido" by Frank O'Hara is in the public domain. . In Memory of My Feelings. upon the sea, mirror of our total mankind in the weather. Mitchell chose Ode to Joy as the title of her triptych in homage to Frank O'Hara, as if she knew that the poet's incessant effort to find love and a bit of peace within the pressure of daily living caught the core of O'Hara's life and art." O'Hara's most persistent interest, however, was the image, in all its suddenness, juxtaposed with an equally unlikely image, following techniques not of Imagism but those perfected by the French Surrealists. He took courses at the New England Conservatory. . and the streets will be filled with racing forms The world of Frank O'Hara. (later produced by the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which he helped found). kinek nmagn gyz bne ill srja lesz vgre Jenny Xie (she/her/hers) reads "My Heart" by Frank O'Hara. In the poem O'Hara demonstrates the process of assuming and then rejecting many possibilities of self-definition. The diction is self-consciously exalted, proper to an ode, compared to the breezy familiarity ordinarily expected of O'Hara: Love is "traduced" by shame; "reticence" is paid for by a poet in his blood; "fortuity" is in "the love we bear." . In the years after his intense, early relationship with O'Hara, Warren settled in Canada and s nem lesz tbb zene csak szjban fl se szellemessg Hilton Kramer was particularly critical of O'Hara's book Jackson Pollock (1959), claiming that the excessive praise and poetic writing spoiled the discussion of the paintings. . They also happen to be the reason for their great success." through the heavens' grand plan. ." Movie Info. a csinos pusztkon s vacsora-klubokban . Brad Gooch's biography, City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O'Hara (1993), makes it possible to trace the biographical, cultural, and literary information in the poems. Working as librarian gives him a quiet environment, but then Francesca enters the library and his life. mint istenek teszik az emberekkel rtatlan kombincijban a fnynek Vincent Prestianni, "Frank O'Hara: An Analytic Bibliography of Bibliographies,", Bill Berkson and Joe LeSueur, eds., "Homage to Frank O'Hara,", Mutlu Konuk Blasing, "Frank O'Hara's Poetics of Speech: The Example of 'Biotherm,'", Gregory W. Bredbeck, "B/O--Barthes's Text / O'Hara's Trick,", James E. B. Breslin, "Frank O'Hara," in his, Terence Diggory, "Questions of Identity in Oranges by Frank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan,", Roger Gilbert, "Frank O'Hara and Gary Snyder: The Walk as Sample," in his, Susan Holahan, "Frank O'Hara's Poetry," in, Kenneth Koch, "Frank O'Hara and His Poetry: An Interview," in, Anthony Libby, "O'Hara on the Silver Range,", John Lowney, "The 'post-anti-esthetic' Poetics of Frank O'Hara,", Thomas Meyer, "Glistening Torsos, Sandwiches, Coca-Cola,", Charles Molesworth, "'The Clear Architecture of the Nerves': The Poetry of Frank O'Hara,", William Weaver, "Remembering Frank O'Hara,". a few tangerines into my overnight bag, straightened my eyelids and shoulders, and. . He even wrote some funny lines about his supposed birthday in "Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and other Births)": The generation of an idea of form in the poem, then, becomes much more important than a doctrine of composition or a sermon about city life. The arresting restlessness of Joan Mitchell. . The largest collection of O'Hara's papers is at Harvard University. A young girl in the poem indicates that Pollock is not in his grave but in the woods, that he and his art are part of the process of death and rebirth, conceiving and reconceiving artistic forms. O'Hara's poetry, as it developed, joined the post-Symbolist French tradition with the American idiom to produce some of the liveliest and most personable poetry written in the 1950s and early 1960s. 777 Words4 Pages. No, I never thot of MEAT SCIENCE ESSAYS in relation to LUNCH POEMS. Read the Study Guide for Frank O'Hara: Poems. It is almost a somber poem, certainly stately, as it moves in assured and measured cadences to its end: "the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth / and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are." The series of love poems to dancer Vincent Warren--including "Les Luths," "Poem (Light clarity avocado salad)," "Having a Coke With You," and "Steps''--are all affirmative, delicate, precise, poems of frontal immediacy, heartfelt, with feeling no longer hidden behind a bravado of brilliant images and discordant segments. "Butter. For Frank O'Hara: Morton Feldman's Three Voices as Interpretation and Elegy Scott W. Klein Morton Feldman's 1982 Three Voices, a large concert work for solo voice that takes its textual materials from Frank O'Hara's 1957 poem 'Wind', is perhaps the most unusual musical setting of a poem in the history of the genre. Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, tea. It . . The lyrical/narrative "I," the "I" with verve and personality, the distinctive O'Hara persona, the "I" of what he himself called his "I do this I do that" poems, makes its appearance as early as "Music," written in 1954. A meditative poem such as "Sleeping on the Wing" from 1955 is a further advance and indication the poet's personality has fully emerged; specifically, that he is aware of the precious advantage, indeed the great comfort, of undisguised human "singularity," which he knows to be "all that you have made your own." . LGBTQ love poetry by and for the queer community. He was an assistant for the important exhibition, "The New American Painting," which toured eight European cities in 1958-1959. . Need a transcript of this episode? O'Hara writes: "It was a very funny life. I'll be back, I'll re-emerge, defeated, from the valley; you don't want me to go where you go, so I go where you don't want me to. . The perceptions and information follow along with the acts of seeing and thinking. Before the Collected Poems, and later The Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara (1974), there were only two slight volumesSecond Avenue (1960) and Lunch Poems (1965) readily available; other books were printed in editions of less than five hundred copies, one in only ten copies, and thus were inaccessible to most serious readers. Photograph by Renate Ponsold. Following his four years in Cambridge, O'Hara went to the University of Michigan on the advice of John Ciardi, his creative-writing teacher at Harvard, to compete in the Hopwood Awards, winning an award in writing for his manuscript "A Byzantine Place" and his verse play Try! lets us live with it s az gen mrhetetlen gyengdsg ingerli a madarakat When the images expand out, however, and a narrative occurs, as in "A Terrestrial Cuckoo" from this same time, the results are delightfully comic: in our canoe of war-surplus gondola parts[. to press against our burning flesh not once but interminably . as evening signals nudities unknown to ancestors imaginations and the feather cushion preens beneath a reclining monolith "Ode to Joy" is a 2016 Chinese drama series directed by Sheng Kong. Like Stevens, in "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven," O'Hara is a poet of the city who concentrates on enacting the processes of the mind as it contacts reality. Touring the history of poetry in the YouTube age. O'Hara was the "poet laureate" of the Abstract Expressionist movement. With Martin Freeman, Morena Baccarin, Jake Lacy, Melissa Rauch. Since his death in 1966 at age forty, the depth and richness of his achievements as a poet and art critic have been recognized by an international audience. . O'Hara published only two book reviews: one of poetry collections by friends Chester Kallman, Ashbery, and Edwin Denby; the other of John Rechy's City of Night, 1963. The fairly simple theme, harmony and rhythm make it a poem for the common person. From near the sea, like Whitman my great predecessor, I call. The poet is immersed in his mode, his monde. An introduction to one ofthe most lasting styles of mid-century American poetry. that love may live, Buildings will go up into the dizzy air as love itself goes in Now his reputation is secure as an important and even popular poet in the great upsurge of American poetry following World War II. Frank O'Hara was part of the New York School of poets and was engaged in other artistic pursuits. Homosexual love is the subject of the poems. . Or where the images are consistent, added to with like elements, as in "Romanze, or the Music Students," beginning:", --almost like an animated cartoon--this is the cleverness that makes O'Hara most appealing. 'Steps' by Frank O'Hara is a complicated poem that celebrates New York City and the joy of being alive. . Francis Russell O'Hara (June 27, 1926 - July 25, 1966) was an American poet who, along with John Ashbery, James Schuyler and Kenneth Koch, was a key member of what was known as the New read more. The self, in the process of conceiving and reconnecting its emotional nature--the heart is the counter to the evil of life in the serpent--finally recognizes that "the scene of my selves" is constantly moving within the process of endless change. And the cherub stands before God. In the poem ''Homosexuality'', this represents the major theme. . Aria Aber knows how to find the space between the buildings, the beauty in the ruins. It tends to flow from one line to the next, placing . The poem proceeds through recollections of O'Hara's personal life, including wartime days in the South Pacific and psychosexual hints, to the present that must be faced, where "too much endlessness" is "stored up, and in store," awaiting. Originally published August 11, 1966. Images of movement, transportation, and the journey of life appear and reappear to establish a coherence in the collection of information about history and contemporary living in the poem. At this point O'Hara began adapting the processes of surrealism to the conception of poetic form founded on the idea that the poem is an enactment of the actuality of perception and the realization of thinking. "The Day Lady Died" by Frank O'Hara is in the public domain. favorites: going to parties with you, being in corners at parties with you, being in gloomy pubs with you smiling, poking you at parties when, you're "down," coming on like South Pacific with you at them, shrimping with you into the Russian dressing, leaving parties with, you alone to go and eat a piece of cloud[. . Thus Joe Brainard remembering his friend Frank O'Hara. However complicated it is, the poem also had a strong influence on younger poets such as Berkson, to whom it is dedicated, Berrigan, and Ron Padgett (specifically, their collaborative Bean Spasms, 1967). He lives with his brother. Manuscripts and letters in the Bill Berkson papers, as well as O'Hara's letters and manuscripts to Donald Allen, are in the Literary Archives, University of Connecticut Library, Storrs; small collections are at the Museum of Modern Art and Special Collections, Syracuse University. analysis for an'appreciation of O"Hara"s work. Turning, I spit in the lock and the knob turns. s szguld formk az utckat betltik majd This exhibition introduced the painters of the Abstract Expressionist movement to European audiences. . on the pretty plains or in the supper clubs and drink too much . O the Polish . O'Hara sensed some of the difficulties and later offered a few thoughts concerning the poem in a letter to a reader or editor who had apparently found it obscure. In "On Rachmaninoff's Birthday," beginning "Quick! . The open arms of the second person beckon anyone in; we are at home in the delights of Frank's quotidian world. A slightly revised version was published in 1808, changing two lines of the first stanza and removed the last one. Frank O'Hara's love poem "Having a Coke with You," written to his lover Vincent Warren, takes as its theme the function of aesthetics. This last statement is, in effect, a succinct definition of nonrepresentational art--and in that sense, Second Avenue is an embodiment of the techniques of Abstract Expressionism, the series of strokes that in their totality alone completes a form. a last poem before I go / off my rocker," the final line-- "You'll never be mentally sober"--comments on the previous assortment of images and relates to the initial "I," rounding out the poem while adding a dimension of self-reflection and conscious control to an otherwise indulgent randomness. "A Step Away From Them" from 1956 has come to be known as the first of his so-called lunch poems, beginning:", " . Surrealism is at easy reach but not overshadowing; there is care for what Olson called the "dailynesses," varied rhythms, syncopation gained by restricting punctuation, an organic syntax, the trust to natural speech (although still very much the speech of a dashing sophisticate), the informed chatter, the management of time in a poem such as "Fantasy," the recurrent optimism of "Poem (Khrushchev's coming)." To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Prohibition in the U.S., we discuss drinking poems over a few cocktails. Painter John Button remarks: "When asked by a publisher-friend for a book, Frank might have trouble even finding the poems stuffed into kitchen drawers or packed in boxes that had not been unpacked since his last move. Comes closer to NAKED LUNCH. They included music, dance, and Expressionist painting. The "Ode to Michael Goldberg" should answer any charges that O'Hara cannot sustain a long poem. This version was retrieved from Poetry Foundation. A self-aware performance courting danger. . In his new one-man show, the famed dancer pays tribute to Joseph Brodskys inner world. (This is just one of seven poems O'Hara wrote for the Russian composer's birthday over the years.) O'Hara moves out of the modernist mode of dada, surrealism, and cubism and into the postmodern advantage: a variety of techniques, which actually incorporate the salient gains of modernism while losing nothing of the flexibility and possibility of openness, the "going on your nerve" of "Personism." Williams's tripartite line and his sense of measure also come into poems like "Walking," "Poem" ("I to you are you to me"), and "Trirme." O'Hara even forgoes his tendency to wisecrack before the seriousness of his intended theme: "here where to love at all's to be a politician," he writes, threatening sarcasm, and continues with a mocking rhyme, "as to love a poem / is pretentious, this may sound tendentious but it's lyrical." One of his poems, "Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed! for our symbol we'll acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter. At the same time O'Hara's innate Americanness was encouraged by writers such as William Carlos Williams and Marianne Moore, together with the colloquial W. H. Auden, whom he felt to be an "American" poet in "his use of the vernacular." as they rise like buildings to the needs of temporary neighbors Lyrics begin: "Joy to every living creature, joy of earth and heav'n above . When he wrote them, it was another dawning in American poetry and he one of the chief instigators, as he knew himself in his "Poem Read at Joan Mitchell's," when he wrote: "tonight I feel energetic because I'm sort of the bugle, / like waking people up. "Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.". mely a szerelem srjn fradsg-utni lthatsgot He was the subject of portraits by many of his artist friendsan indication not only of his association with painters but also of the esteem in which the artists held him. Among the early poems, Second Avenue, in eleven parts, is easily the most ambitious. He was a member of the New York School of poetry. . The cigarette smoke began jetting from Frank's nostrils and he went into the next room and wrote SLEEPING ON THE WING in a great clatter of keys." The poem demonstrates the process of the poet finding in the non-causal relationships of events that a singular coherence precipitates strong emotions. We explore the German and English text to 'Ode to Joy' - the triumphant choral climax of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. . INTRODUCTION, 1997. by MARJORIE PERLOFF. There are nine odes in the book, along with three prints by Michael Goldberg. . VS gets live at AWP, where Danez and Franny hosted a packed show featuring the magnificent Hanif Abdurraqib and Angel Nafis. . He performed his administrative and curatorial duties surrounded by ceaseless conversation about art, poetry, music, and dance. Day. The Use of Imagery in the Poetry "Fern Hill" . A Frank O'Hara poem begins with a bang. botlik akr egy aranyrmes hosszutvfut svd vagy libriai Ode to Joy (A Poem by Frank O'Hara) Medium. )," for example, was written on the Staten Island Ferry en route to a poetry reading, and his most important statement of poetics, "Personism," was written in less than an hour while Allen, who requested it, was on his way across town to pick it up. Poems that offer a realistic take on relationships today. U of Chicago Press, 1997. An interesting sidelight to these social activities was that for most of us non-academic and indeed non-literary poets in the sense of the American scene at the time, the painters were the only generous audience for our poetry, and most of us read first publicly in art galleries or at The Club. Schiller's "Ode to Joy" is a fairly thorough examination of the emotion of joy, its origins and its purposes. It is not his alone, but the human and historical condition. Picked up by moi in 1964 and purchased, not for ninety-five cents as priced on back (Totem Press), but for five francs twenty-five centimes, in Paris at Shakespeare and Company, which was almost the same as one dollar considering it had to fly the Atlantic . . We shall have everything we want and there'll be no more dying on the pretty plains or in the supper clubs for our symbol we'll acknowledge vulgar materialistic laughter over an insatiable sexual appetite and the streets will be filled with racing forms and the photographs of murderers and narcissists and . A third workMarisol's print Paris Review (1967)cinches the connection between Love and her memorial drawing for O'Hara, serving as a transitional link between the two.The print translates Love into a flat graphic form and bears the same profile that appears in Frank O'Hara/In Memory of My Feelings (this time with bright pink lipstick offering a hyperfeminine contrast to the bald . The same is true of his poem of determined optimism dedicated to painter Mitchell ("Poem Read at Joan Mitchell's"), where happiness is "the least and best of human attainments," or the cohesiveness of "Platinum, Watching TV, Etc.," preserved in Poems Retrieved (1977), or the equally expansive poem to another painter friend titled "John Button Birthday." It concerns the growth of both the poet's mind and of his role (as poet), autobiographically moving through memories of childhood toward a confrontation with mortality. Summary of The Day Lady Died. This version was retrieved from Poetry Foundation. He did not cultivate academic alliances or solicit editors and publishers. which wants us to remain for cocktails in a bar and after dinner melyek gyngyveritket srnak a rvid figyelem lepedin While growing up, he was a serious music student and wished above all to be a concert pianist. The allusion to The Rite of Spring is obvious enough. In the opening scene of Ode to Joy, a definition flashes on the screen: "Cataplexy is a neurological disorder that causes sudden attacks of muscle weakness." The definition continues on the next screen: "It is triggered by strong emotions such as anger, surprise and fear. . The sense of movement is here, of the flight and motion that were parts of "Second Avenue" and became parts of "Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births)," the final poem in the volume. He was a leading figure within the new generation of New York poets, but his talent and influence extended beyond free verse into art criticism and curatorship. In "Easter" the images are fully nonreferential, or referential to their own reality alone: "The razzle dazzle maggots are summary / tattooing my simplicity on the pitiable." As Brad Gooch details in his biography of O'Hara, City Poet, O'Hara believed that he was born on June 27, 1926. A new collection of autobiographical pieces documents the vast scope of Anne Waldman's literary and political imagination. The artist is brought down to his knees, not just by the prayer for creative novelty, one of the values necessary for his art, but by being reduced to a certain futility and awkwardness. ], " whose self-defeating vice becomes a proper sepulcher at last . . Showing 1-30 of 161. This is language in love with itself. Need a transcript of this episode? oh god it's wonderful. His own art criticism, the major portion of which has been collected as Art Chronicles 1954-1966 (1975), helped to encourage the painters he liked best and maintain the public awareness of them, although in itself it is nowhere as brilliant as, for example, Rainer Maria Rilke's writings on Auguste Rodin or Charles Baudelaire's on the Salon of 1846. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. In response to O'Hara's 'Ode to Joy' (1957), Smith writes, 'This poem strikes . is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irn, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne. It's Frank O'Hara's birthday!!! Dimensions. and the streets will be filled with racing forms. ], This is O'Hara at his best, combining his voice and personality with the most far-flung word montages." He hastened the development of an art form hitherto little practiced in English (The Waste Land [1922], for example, is seldom designated as authored by both Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot) that was to become popular in the later 1960s and 1970s among younger poetsthe collaboration: O'Hara wrote poems with Ashbery, Koch, and Berkson; created "translations" from the French; produced a series of lithographs with Rivers, collages with Goldberg, comic strips with Joe Brainard, "Dialogues for Two Voices and Two Pianos" with composer Ned Rorem, and a movie with painter Alfred Leslie. The poem joins eating with the making of language, as a "MENU" for Berkson suggests, but there is also the connection between eating and talking: The frame of reference is immense, and there are puns and playful connections on and with French and English. As in the early "Ode to Michael Goldberg," this poems stresses movement, quick passages through the details of life and thought, and in its spread it too engages the spatial dimensions of language. Professional critics found O'Hara's criticism too subjective and lacking in the disciplines of critical analysis. Frank O'Hara: Poems study guide contains a biography of Frank O'Hara, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis of select poems. . . mikor oly presget jelez az este milyet kpzelni se tudtak An informal conversation between poets John Ashbery and Ron Padgett, remembering the life of Frank OHara. csak nyelv a flben se dob csak fl a combon "Ode on Causality," the first poem in the book and the poem in memory of Pollock, begins with the line, "There is the sense of neurotic coherence." From "Second Avenue" to "Biotherm" and then to these final poems, O'Hara moved away from the direct influences of Surrealism and projected a process of perceiving and writing grounded in the need to generate poetic forms." The Council of Europe and subsequently the European Union chose "Ode to Joy" as National Anthem of Europe. Among the poems of this early period, "Oranges" stands out. They talk bringing their " More likely, his growing recognition among young poets would have spurred him further. After service aboard the destroyer USS Nicholas in the South Pacific during World War II, he entered Harvard (Edward Gorey was his roommate), first majoring in music but changing to English and deciding to be a writer. From the beginning O'Hara's poetry was engaged with the worlds of music, dance, and painting. But it is perhaps the most difficult of all accomplishments in art, the texture of surface appearance. . This ode is actually one of O'Hara's most directly political poems, mounting almost to a rhetoric of defiance: "blood! Marjorie Perloff discusses the poetry of Frank O'Hara. The drift into smartness ("it's lyrical") is checked, however, and the poem is restored to seriousness, even gravity, by what follows--"which shows what lyricism has been brought to by our fabled times"--and elevated diction such as "cowards are shibboleths" and "one specific love's traduced." In his letter he identifies some of the components, including a derisive portrait of "a poetry critic and teacher," a description of painter Hartigan at work, and "a true description of not being able to continue this poem and meeting Kenneth Koch for a sandwich while waiting for the poem to start again." This includes providing, analysing and enhancing site functionality and usage, enabling social features, and . capable of bursting / into flame or merely / gleaming profoundly." Art cannot grant fixity; it can produce no statues; it can, however, demonstrate the very processes of generating artistic form." The last line merges object into subject (at precisely "everyone") in the flux of events in the continuous postmodernist universe. On Ted Berrigans exuberant and idiosyncratic prose. Died. Home Joan Mitchell Artwork Ode to Joy (A Poem by Frank O'Hara) Ode to Joy (A Poem by Frank O'Hara) 1970 1 / Title. Poem after poem is of a high order of achievement--"Rhapsody," "Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul," "Joe's Jacket," "You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming," and "Personal Poem." . It's only afternoon, there's a lot ahead. The eager note on my door said "Call me, call when you get in!" so I quickly threw. cmer gyannt vulgr-materilis nevetst fogadunk el Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference/ Homosexuality/ Topography by Hazel Smith Liverpool University Press, 2000, 230 pages 45.00 hardback ISBN -85323-994- . On Sundays, I stayed in my room and listened to the Sunday symphony programs." 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