#he went to oxford and liked 19th century literature

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Prefacing this with saying that I know that I have a problem and I am going to try to get another therapist to try to help me deal with it better as I wasn't really making progress in this area with the previous one.

A friend (who I haven't seen in like 8 years so basically just an Instagram mutual at this point) got me in touch with a guy she met on a dating website who wasn't for her thought I might like.

You all know how much I hate and don't get on with and feel crushingly anxious about internet dating. But I thought I should at least try again.

So we've been messaging a bit every few days and my anxiety in this area is SO BAD that thinking about how to reply to every message he sends makes me feel sick and start crying and taking about 2 days to figure out how to reply.

The messages are innocuous. They're things like "How long have you been single?" and making suggestions about meeting up.

He lives on the other side of London so a good two or so hours away from me and his latest suggestion is that he comes all the way to my side of London on Friday evening. I'm free Friday evening and I just can't think of anything worse. Firstly, that's SO FAR for him to come just to meet a random stranger off the internet. I would have to make it worth while somehow and that's so terrifying. What does that mean? I can't do that! I'm boring as toast and extremely awkward on a first date. It's such a waste of his time. The fairer alternative is suggesting we meet in London but then I have to spend £30 on train fares to go into London when I'm exhausted from school in order to sit in a bar with a total stranger making small talk and that sounds like hell on earth too. Also going out in the evening means alcohol and I feel uncomfortable as hell drinking alcohol with a stranger. I mean, what if he puts something in my drink? But then to go to a bar and not drink makes me look like a buzz kill or immature.

And the other thing is that I know nothing about him except his job and where he lives and that he wants a serious relationship. I don't know what his hobbies are, what he's interested in, what kind of TV he watches... We're only talking because someone I knew 8 years ago says she thinks we might get on. And I know you're thinking, "Well, just ASK HIM SOME QUESTIONS, ROSE, YOU MORON!" but, like, that involves actually talking to him instead of just messaging every few days and that sounds like such hard work and I'm just SO ANXIOUS.

I want this situation to go away. I don't want to talk to a stranger with no context. It's completely unnatural. But what if I'm missing the chance of my life? How can I possibly throw this away? It's not as if men are queueing up to date me. This is an attractive man with a good job who WANTS TO MEET ME and I'm sobbing daily and losing sleep over how to respond to innocuous texts. If I'm ever going to move past whatever horrific blockage I've got, I have to face my fears, but couldn't I face them more gently? IDK.

It's like... if a student is struggling with a translation, it's important to break down tasks into manageable chunks so the whole passage doesn't look so daunting. But I've got here so many things that are scaring me all at once - internet dating, not knowing someone, his interest, meeting up, drinking, dates - I don't know how to break them down into manageable chunks!

Can I just say something like "I'm sorry but I find after all I'm not really in a place to be dating at the moment" and just nope out of the situation? I want to. But also I'd be so disappointed in myself for giving into fear. But I'm so stressed right now and crying all the time and feel so sick and I just want to get on with my school work and live my life with my friends and enjoy all the cool things I've got lined up over the next few weeks (London trips! Seeing friends! Seeing my parents! Going to the theatre! etc etc) that don't involve strange men.

I need a really good therapist so badly.

(I should point out that when I am not in a dating situation, I am a totally well-adjusted, sociable, friendly, competent adult and human being. My almost phobia of dating is very much an exception to who I am as a person which makes it even more striking.)

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Top 5 New Books of 2020

A round up of the top 5 new books that I have read this year, full 2020 reading list found here

Warning for possible spoilers below the cut.

Please Don’t Hug Me - Kay Kerr

Erin is looking forward to Schoolies, at least she thinks she is. But things are not going to plan. Life is getting messy, and for Erin, who is autistic, that’s a big problem. She’s lost her job at Surf Zone after an incident that clearly was not her fault. Her driving test went badly even though she followed the instructions perfectly. Her boyfriend is not turning out to be the romantic type. And she’s missing her brother, Rudy, who left almost a year ago.

But now that she’s writing letters to him, some things are beginning to make just a tiny bit of sense.

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I cannot stress enough how much I love this book. Growing up as an autistic teen girl, I really lack a lot of representation, both real and fictional, and this books is a huge step forward in remedying that. Written by an autistic woman (yes, this is an #ownvoices novel!), Please Don’t Hug Me shows autism in a new and beautiful light as to what is most commonly shown. Erin is no genius savant that is only autistic when plot relevant or has a lack of social skills used only for comedic relief, but instead a encapsulation of the ordinary and everyday autistic experience of just wanting to get through the day with as little meltdowns as possible while still maintaining your neurotypical facade.

The Dictionary of Lost Words - Pip Williams

In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.

Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary.

Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day, she sees a slip containing the word bondmaid flutter to the floor unclaimed. Esme seizes the word and hides  it in an old wooden trunk that belongs to her friend, Lizzie,  a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.

Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. She begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.

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One of my favourite parts about this novel is how perfectly it showed both misogyny and classism/elitism, and how they intertwined. Although it is set in the mid/late 19th century and early 20th century, there is this sense of relatability to it that I think I lot of people might be able to recognise. Williams deals with a lot topics that I don’t often see in other media, such as menstruation without fancy allusions or making it into anything other than what it is, pregnancy out-of-wedlock without it being seen as a character flaw on the woman’s part, and showing characters one might consider like a hag or spinster to be good people worth celebrating because of things that deem them lesser rather than despite it or not at all. One main criticism I do have with this book, however, is how it seems like William just adds tragedy for the sake of moving the plot forward/to add shock value or drama. I will admit, it did get me crying at some parts, it did get a little tedious and lack-luster to have the last half of the novel just be death after life-altering event after death after life-altering event. 

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still.

By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found.

But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

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I read this book for my advanced literature class earlier this year and it was a great choice on the schools part. Everyone in my class enjoyed it, even if a lot of us were crying by the end of the novel. The book itself is rich with literary techniques that enrich the actual reading if you are one of those people that like to dissect what they read. I think Zusak made a really good choice with having Death narrate, as well as how he tied in his own experiences/interjections in these mini vignette-type extracts which I found really enhanced both the overall atmosphere and environment. The only qualm I have is that there were a lot of questions left unanswered that made the story feel somewhat empty.

Picnic at Hanging Rock - Joan Lindsay

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred.

Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three of the girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on through the scrub into the shadows of Hanging Rock. Further, higher, till at last they disappeared.

They never returned.

Whether Picnic at Hanging Rock is fact or fiction the reader must decide for themselves.

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I watched the Foxtel miniseries first a couple years and thoroughly enjoyed it and sought out the novel very quickly afterwards. I will be honest, I picked the novel up first around 2018/19 and dropped it until earlier this year when I reread/finished it and loved it. Lindsay’s ability to create this perfect and constant juxtaposition between the natural Australian bush and the intruding colonialism is really amazing and adds this interesting aesthetic that the academia community on this site seems to enjoy. There is also a really interesting dynamic between the female characters (which is most of the characters, to be fair) and they feel complete and authentic, something that doesn’t always exist in other works of literature. There is also one canon queer character, but there is so much subtext in the novel for so many other characters that it feels purposeful. All in all, this is the gayest straight book I ever read.  

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capital, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.

The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined -- every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute... and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.

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The Hunger Games was one of the series in primary school that rocked my literary world (joining the ranks of The Great Brain, Harry Potter and The Books of Beginning) and helped inspire my love of reading, and when I heard about a prequel I was over the moon with nostalgia. I found it a couple days after its release at Target for $16 and I loved it. I finished it in about a week and I could barely put it down. I loved reading how the hunger games came to be and how they ended up the way they were, as well as advancing Collins’ previously established and incredible world building. The book also adds upon the themes in the original trilogy of government corruption, classism, elitism, individualism and propaganda, but from those that benefit from it (e.g. Snow) instead of those that suffer (e.g. Katniss). I have seen some criticism from people about not liking it being from Snow’s perspective but I personally think that it was the perfect choice, as no other character’s story would be able to add to the story in such a meaningful way.

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Top 10 Successful Short Story Writers in India

1.Rabindranath Tagore:Rabindranath Tagore (born May 7, 1861) was the first non-European laureate to win the Nobel Prize. Best known as a poet, he was a man with a great number of talents. He was a nationalist who gave up his knighthood to protest British policies in colonial India after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. He was a painter and a songwriter too. One of these rare talents were short stories too. He wrote them in Bengali, English and Hindi. He even translated various famous English stories in Bengali and Hindi.

His famous short stories are: Sompotti Somorpon, Kabuliwallah (The Fruitseller from Kabul), Ghare Baire (The Home and the World), Jogajog (Relationships), Nastanirh (The Broken Nest), Shesher Kobita (The Last Poem or Farewell Song), Gora, Char Oddhay, Bou Thakuranir Haat, Malancha and Chokher bali are some of his excellent works in short stories.

Premchand: Munshi Premchand (born July 31, 1880), is one of the most renowned names in Hindi Literature. His original name was Dhanpat Rai. He was a novelist, a dramatist and mainly a short story writer. His translations into Hindi are still relevant. Munshi Ji was a teacher by profession but was still writing in Urdu language. He also wrote tiny stories. He was very patriotic and his works in Urdu depicted the conditions of the nationalist movement going on in colonial India. His thought-provoking short stories were realistic on one hand and poignant on the other. His short stories always carried some sort of social message while side by side entertaining the readers. His depiction of plight of girls and women in the 19th century is picturesque and hits the readers to create awareness about the status of women. He was later elected as Progressive Writers' Association in Lucknow.

His famous short stories are: Adeeb Ki Izat, Duniya ka Sabse Anmol Ratan, Bade Bhai Sahab, Beti ka Dhan, Saut, Sajjanata ka dand, Panch Parameshvar and Pariksha.

His famous short stories are: The timeless beastly tales and other stories, From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet, Arion and the Dolphin (for children)

R. K. Narayan: Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami (born October 10, 1906) was an Indian writer who was renowned as a man of simplicity. His writing was as simple as his life was. He had been nominated for Nobel prize for literature several times. The compassionate humanism of each of his short and tiny stories. Swami was one of his best characters which was even adapted as a series on Doordarshan. Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami won various awards and honors for his works. These include, Sahitya Akademi Award for The Guide in 1958 and Padma Bhushan in 1964.

His famous short stories are: Gods, Demons and Others, The Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories, A Horse and Two Goats and Other Stories, Malgudi Days (book), Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories and The World of Malgudi.

Ruskin Bond: Ruskin Bond (born May 19, 1934) is a great Indian writer of British descent. He has authored many great children's stories and was awarded Sahitya Akademi award to honor his work of literature. His famous character is Rusty who was involved in various mischievous activities since his birth.

His famous short stories are: The sensualist, The night train at Deoli, The cherry tree, The tiger in the tunnel, Time stops at shamli, Sussana's 7 husbands, Delhi is not far, The room in the roof, Death of the trees, The blue umbrella, A flight of pigeons, When darkness falls.

Mahadevi Verma: Mahadevi Verma (Born March 26, 1907) was in true sense the modern Meera as Mahadevi Verma was greatly influenced by Buddhism and she was deeply aesthetic. Her poetry is marked by a constant pain, the pain of separation from her beloved, the supreme being.She brought Chhayavaad generation back to its position when romanticism was at its peak. She received Jnanpith award in the year 1982.

Her famous short stories and prose are: Ateet Ke chalchitra, Kshanda, Mera Parivaar, Path ke Saathi, Sahityakaar ki Asatha, Sambhashan, Sankalpita, Shrinkhla ki kadiya, Smriti Ki Rekhayen

Khushwant Singh: Khushwant Singh (Born Feb 02, 1915) was an Indian novelist, a lawyer and a journalist. He was a man of rare intellect and possessed many hidden talents. He was a graduate of St. Stephen's College, Delhi and King's College London.He was the editor of many reputed newspapers and magazines like, The Illustrated Weekly of India, The National Herald and the Hindustan Times.

His famous short stories' collections are: The Mark of Vishnu and Other Stories, The Voice of God and Other Stories, A Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories, Black Jasmine, The Collected Stories.

Mulk Raj Anand: Mulk Raj Anand (Born Dec 12, 1905) was the first Indian writer in English to be in the light in the international scene. He can be considered a pioneer in anglo-Indian fiction and the first to depict the masses and their plight. He highlighted many social evils prevailing in the society of that time. He himself was born in a coppersmith family but being an avid learner, he went to Cambridge for higher studies.

His famous short stories' collections are: The Lost Child and Other Stories, The Barber's Trade Union and Other Stories, The Tractor and the Corn Goddess and Other Stories, Reflections on the Golden Bed, The Power of Darkness and Other Stories Lajwanti and Other Stories, Between Tears and Laughter, Selected Short Stories of Mulk Raj Anand, Tales Told by an Idiot: Selected Short Stories.

Jhumpa Lahiri: Jhumpa Lahiri(Born July 11, 1967) is a Pulitzer prize winning writer known for works of fiction like Interpreter of maladies, The Namesake, Unaccustomed Earth and The Lowland. She is famous for the pondering thought she spends on each and every character and the mesmerizing emotional connection with them.

Her famous short stories' collections are: Interpreter of maladies, the namesake

Vikram Seth: Vikram Seth (Born June 20, 1952) is an Indian novelist, poet, travel writer best known for his epic novel 'A Suitable Boy'. For more than three decades he has been writing and getting the due appreciation from critics. He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford and did his master's in economics from Stanford University, U.S.A. The novel 'The Golden Gate' published in 1986 made him one of the most highly acclaimed novelists of his time and the book won him plenty of accolade from readers as well as critics.

Anita Desai: Anita Desai(Born June 24, 1937) is one of the most notable contemporary Indian fiction writers in English. She was born to a Bengali father and how many pages is 1000 words  a German mother. She grew up in Delhi, receiving her education first at Queen Mary's School and later at Miranda House, one of Delhi University's most prestigious colleges. At the early age of seven, she published her first novel,Cry, the Peacock, in 1963. Desai since then published novels, short stories, and children's literature.

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How giving Jean Valjean a Yorkshire accent helped Dominic West understand Les Miserables

BBC One’s new six-part series Les Miserables promises to be unlike any previous adaptation we’ve seen of the classic, epic novel. Georgia Humphreys speaks to its stars.

Chances are you’ll know the gut-wrenching story of Les Miserables. Whether you’ve seen the 2012 film, watched the musical on stage, or read the historical novel by Victor Hugo, it’s a depiction of the struggles of France’s underclass, and how far they must go to survive.

Now, six-part BBC One mini-series Les Miserables promises to delve deep into the layers of the classic story, which is set against the epic backdrop of 1845 France – a time of civil unrest.

It could barely be more timely given the ‘yellow vests’ protests that have erupted across modern-day France in recent weeks in anger at fuel tax rises and growing living costs.

Here, cast members Dominic West, Lily Collins and David Oyelowo tell us more about what to expect from the adaptation, which will air over the Christmas period.

The protagonist of the story is Jean Valjean, who is struggling to lead a normal life after serving a prison sentence for stealing bread to feed his sister’s children.

And for Sheffield-born West, star of The Wire and The Affair, the appeal of playing him is simple.

“He’s the best superhero that’s ever been written about,” says the 49-year-old Yorkshireman, who went to Eton after his father George made his fortune from manufacturing plastic vandal-resistant bus shelters.

Meanwhile, it’s a dream come true for Collins, 29 – who is the daughter of musician Phil Collins – to play orphaned, working-class Fantine, as she grew up loving musicals like Les Mis.

However, the actress, who played Snow White in the film Mirror Mirror, loves the fact that the BBC version doesn’t feature any singing.

“It’s really fun to play the part that people have played before, but in a way no one’s seen before,” say the Guilford-born star, who moved to LA as a child with her mother.

“We get to see her meet her friends, meet her lover, be wooed, and go out on dates and actually fall in love and have the child,” adds Collins.

“And then she goes on the journey that everyone mostly knows.”                         

Oyelowo, who was born in Oxford to Nigerian parents, takes on the role of Javert, a police inspector who becomes obsessed with the pursuit and punishment of convict Valjean.

And the 42-year-old admits he was pleasantly surprised when he was offered the part.

“It’s the kind of role that growing up in the UK you just accept, ‘Well, I love watching that, but that’s never going to be me’,” confides the actor, known for films such as Selma and A United Kingdom.

“I’m elated that we are in a time and a world where it’s not any sort of big move on the BBC’s part or Tom’s [Shankland, director] part or the producer’s part to approach me with a role like this.

“I’m just so glad that 12-year-olds that look like me are going to get to see images that I didn’t get to see when I was their age, and would have been formative for me.”

Much of the drama in Les Mis revolves around the cat-and-mouse relationship between the characters of Jean Valjean and Javert.

“Javert sees Jean Valjean as a mirror to himself,” explains Oyelowo.

“Javert was born in a prison, he was born to gypsy parents, he was born in and around criminality.

“And that is the thing he is pushing away from obsessively for all of his life.”

Both actors enjoyed scrutinising the text to develop their characters.

“We’ve spent a lot of time just trying to nail down what makes this feel real, because the book itself relies heavily on coincidence,” notes Oyelowo.

On exploring the motivations of their characters, West says his roots in Yorkshire helped with understanding the part.

“We had a bit of trouble at first, thinking, ‘What’s Javert’s problem? Why is he so obsessed with this dude?’

“But it all became easier when David starting doing Javert in a London accent, and I started doing Jean Valjean in a Yorkshire accent!”

Collins’ preparation, meanwhile, saw her speak to Anne Hathaway, who won an Oscar for her role as Fantine in the film.

She was told: “Good luck, and do your own thing.”

“I was heavily inspired by that movie,” she shares.

“But Tom also wanted it to be about the literature, not basing it on someone else’s work.”

She adds: “In any role I do there is a little bit of pressure to do my best because I’m my own harshest critic, let alone when you’re playing a literary character that people love.”

West says that because the book – which he calls “the best book” he’s ever read – is a lot less known than the musical, it takes the pressure off a bit.

“It’s huge, epic, magic, romantic, heroic, incredibly morally challenging and morally interesting.

“People will play this part forever because it’s a great classic part, and the reason is there’s so many ways to come at it.”

What also makes the tale timeless is its themes, such as guilt and revenge. And West also points out that there are parallels with today’s society in terms of the class struggle depicted in the show.

“Les Miserables is about the poor people and their fight against injustice and plutocrats running over them,” he says.

“It’s all pretty relevant.”

West admits he’s been “in tears all day” on set (the series was filmed in Brussels and northern France).

“I can’t stop crying,” he says. “I just love this man.

“It’s quite hard to make a good guy interesting, and really care about a good guy, but he’s just strong and courageous.”

He continues: “I’ve got loads of kids, and I’ve played a lot of villains and I don’t want to be a villain, I don’t find them interesting any more. So I love playing this hero.”

Collins agrees she’s been affected by filming the sadness in Fantine’s story.

“I obviously feel what my character’s feeling, but I also try at the end of the day to leave some of that at work.

“Even though I’m alone here in Brussels, I’m going out and spending time with people and also being able to see friends in London, and FaceTime ... I don’t have to live in a bubble.”

Filming away from home does of course poses its challenges, as Oyelowo, who now lives in LA, candidly reveals.

“I have four kids and a wife who I miss so terribly,” admits the star.

“But she and I have a two-week rule – we’re never apart for more than two weeks. So, a lot of flying back and forth. You make it work.

“But that’s partly why this is the first time I’ve done anything of this nature since I did Spooks, because it takes up so much time and I have young children. But this was one I couldn’t say no to.”

Script ‘demanded best actors’

Screenwriter Andrew Davies says the roles in Les Miserables called for the “finest available actors”.

“We were thrilled to be able to cast Dominic West as Valjean and David Oyelowo as Javert,” he told the Radio Times about his adaptation of Victor Hugo’s 19th century classic.

“That casting reflects the often ignored fact that France, like Britain, has a multicultural history going back to Napoleon’s time and beyond.”

Davies, known for acclaimed previous adaptations including Vanity Fair, Pride And Prejudice and War And Peace, added: “I have a reputation for bringing out, and (some say) even inventing the sexual element in the great classics.

“It is there in Les Miserables, too, but deeply buried.”

Watch Les Miserables on BBC One over the Christmas period. (x)

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So tonight I went to see ‘the happy prince’, the biopic directed by and starring Rupert Everett (a superb actor) about Oscar Wilde as part of my belated 30th birthday celebrations with my friend Patty. The film is incredible by the way guys - funny, emotional, hard hitting and involving all at the same time. I cried at the end, which is rare for me. I encourage you all to go and see it if it’s showing near you. After the showing there was a Q&A session hosted by the historian who wrote the book nonetheless! It was very informative and also interesting to see hear the public, some well informed on Wilde and 19th century history and some clearly not, openly and easily engage with this charming and friendly lady who is also a lecturer at Oxford University. After the Q&A, we bumped into her in the foyer selling copies of her new book. Myself and Patty got chatting to her for a short while and she offered to give me a small discount on the book and sign it for me. She was so relatable and down-to-earth and it inspired me to continue building on my skills as a undergraduate historian. Patty runs a bookshop in my suburb of Oxford and she asked if Michèle would like to come to her bookstore to do a more in depth Q&A and maybe an ‘official’ signing, and she said she would be up for it! So watch this space! Also watch this space because for the Q&A, the girls suggested having it a panel - Michèle, the author of the novel, Patty - talking about how his work impacted literature and whether he is still popular in book shops today etc and myself - as a undergraduate historian with a specialism in the 19th century. I’m so excited to be answering the public’s questions with these clever and talented ladies! It’s gonna be fun and I’m gonna try and find a way to livestream it if any of you are curious about anything I’ve mentioned. P.s. go see the happy prince.

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Once aloft a time, a man was abnormality in the arid back he came aloft a gargantuan tree. At the bottom of the timberline he begin a cave.

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Venturing into the cave, he begin a alleyway that led down. He artificial advanced and went lower, until he accustomed at a doorway. There he begin a abstruse drifter captivation a staff.

“On this path, the alcohol of the angelic biking on their way to access the Garden of Eden,” the drifter told the man.

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The man was Rabbi Yossi. The drifter is larboard bearding and unknowable. The adventure is told in the Zohar — the “Book of Splendor” about declared as the axial book of the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism but about larboard unread.

What is this account accomplishing in a book that about presents itself as a close annotation on the Torah? And what is the acceptation of the account for the Zohar’s author? Or authors?

These are amid the questions Dr. Eitan Fishbane of Teaneck sets out to acknowledgment in his new book, “The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar,” which has aloof been arise by the University of Oxford Press and will barrage at the Jewish Apostolic Seminary of America in Manhattan on November 27. (See box.)

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Dr. Fishbane traces the roots of his book to his apprentice year at Brandeis. In one determinative course, he advised above American poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. In another, he advised works of Jewish mysticism with Arthur Green. Together, these two anecdotic encounters with abstract “grew into an absorption and allure in the abysmal similarities amid mystical and anapestic creativity,” he said.

He begin in both the poets and the mystics “a drive to abduction the mysterious, about ineffable ambit of actuality and feeling, the faculty that this apple and all of life, all of existence, is animate with pulsating mystery, an announcement of the Divine arise in this world,” he said.

For best American Jews, the Zohar is far below accustomed than 19th aeon American poetry. Dr. Fishbane explains that “it seeks to bare the airy base of Divine ablaze that the mystics accept hovers below the apparent of acumen in our apple and in Torah. The mystics of the Zohar consistently allege of absolution the ablaze of the mysteries of the secrets of the Torah that are annihilation below than the close gates of Divine reality.”

Some of that happens in the address of archetypal Torah interpretation. “Huge amounts of the argument are in the anatomy of a affectionate of midrash,” Dr. Fishbane said. “It’s modeled on age-old midrashic forms, speaking about the mystical secrets of the cosmos and of God as the kabbalists accepted them.”

But that is interspersed “with what some accept alleged the abundant ballsy tale, or at atomic the anecdotal tale, of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his aggregation abnormality about the age-old Galilee in adventure of mystical wisdom.” The Zohar represents itself as the adventure of Rabbi Bar Yochai, who lived in the additional century, “but avant-garde scholarship has apparent that the Zohar was actually accounting by backward 13th and aboriginal 14th aeon Castilian Jewish mystics and kabbalists who about invented and reimagined the amount of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai to become this adept kabalistic sage.”

The result, Dr. Fishbane says, is “one of the greatest works of Jewish fiction to anytime emerge.”

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As fiction goes, the adventure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai gets aerial marks for creativity, but avalanche a bit abbreviate back it comes to plotting.

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Earlier scholarship on the Zohar has focused on allegory its doctrines and the history of its composition. Dr. Fishbane’s assignment is groundbreaking because it looks instead at questions of storytelling and narrative.

He contextualizes the storytelling in the Zohar and in the beyond brand of Jewish abstract of its time. Framing narratives of the abnormality sages, which assume avant-garde compared to beforehand archetypal Jewish texts like the Talmud and Midrash, about-face out to accept antecedents in both Jewish and non-Jewish abreast literature.

As for the adventure of the cavern below the timberline — Dr. Fishbane discusses it in a affiliate he devotes to bewitched accuracy and the absurd in the Zohar, “the means in which the Zohar narrates and represents the alteration amid the accustomed and the abnormal in the acquaintance of the animal characters.” He compares that alteration to what readers acquisition in the assignment of Gabriel García Márquez.

Another affiliate looks at the ethical implications of the narratives. “The advantage of forgiveness, the abstemiousness of anger, benevolence for the poor are represented through the fiction of the Zohar,” Dr. Fishbane said.

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Dr. Fishbane said the abstraction of Zohar and added kabbalistic texts “has had a absolute and able appulse on my own airy life. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m a kabbalist by any amplitude of the imagination, but I would say the texts and account I’ve spent so continued belief in bookish contexts accept actually impacted my own claimed and apostolic language. There is absolutely a bit in the Zohar and accompanying abstract that I anticipate is acutely affective to us in the abreast airy moment.”

One example: “The abstraction that God is not necessarily a personified, baronial adjudicator in the accomplished heavens, but a activating force of activity that courses like a river of activity through all of the universe, and which manifests to me in my own accurate means as a Jew who seeks to alive the activity of the mitzvot. I acquisition the adumbration of the Zohar moving. I wouldn’t necessarily subscribe to it in the exact way the kabbalists accept it, but it absolutely has aggressive me to anticipate abnormally about acceptance and about God and about abreast spirituality.”

On a apostolic level, he said, “the abundant aural articulation of Divinity is bidding through the ablaze adroitness of the abundant minds and writers and agents in anniversary generation.” Belief the Zohar “is a way we accost the abundant ancestry of the Jewish bodies and apprehend the choir of those abundant airy masters and agents of old. We thereby already afresh are able to apprehend the beating and Divine articulation singing through the ages of the Jewish people, and are able to catch the abundant ablaze of Divine adumbration as it manifests through the words of the sages of Judaism.”

What: The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Zohar Symposium

Where: Jewish Apostolic Seminary of America, 3080 Broadway, Manhattan

When: Tuesday, November 27, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

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The man was Rabbi Yossi. The drifter is larboard bearding and unknowable. The adventure is told in the Zohar — the “Book of Splendor” about declared as the axial book of the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism but about larboard unread.

What is this account accomplishing in a book that about presents itself as a close annotation on the Torah? And what is the acceptation of the account for the Zohar’s author? Or authors?

These are amid the questions Dr. Eitan Fishbane of Teaneck sets out to acknowledgment in his new book, “The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar,” which has aloof been arise by the University of Oxford Press and will barrage at the Jewish Apostolic Seminary of America in Manhattan on November 27. (See box.)

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Dr. Fishbane traces the roots of his book to his apprentice year at Brandeis. In one determinative course, he advised above American poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. In another, he advised works of Jewish mysticism with Arthur Green. Together, these two anecdotic encounters with abstract “grew into an absorption and allure in the abysmal similarities amid mystical and anapestic creativity,” he said.

He begin in both the poets and the mystics “a drive to abduction the mysterious, about ineffable ambit of actuality and feeling, the faculty that this apple and all of life, all of existence, is animate with pulsating mystery, an announcement of the Divine arise in this world,” he said.

For best American Jews, the Zohar is far below accustomed than 19th aeon American poetry. Dr. Fishbane explains that “it seeks to bare the airy base of Divine ablaze that the mystics accept hovers below the apparent of acumen in our apple and in Torah. The mystics of the Zohar consistently allege of absolution the ablaze of the mysteries of the secrets of the Torah that are annihilation below than the close gates of Divine reality.”

Some of that happens in the address of archetypal Torah interpretation. “Huge amounts of the argument are in the anatomy of a affectionate of midrash,” Dr. Fishbane said. “It’s modeled on age-old midrashic forms, speaking about the mystical secrets of the cosmos and of God as the kabbalists accepted them.”

But that is interspersed “with what some accept alleged the abundant ballsy tale, or at atomic the anecdotal tale, of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his aggregation abnormality about the age-old Galilee in adventure of mystical wisdom.” The Zohar represents itself as the adventure of Rabbi Bar Yochai, who lived in the additional century, “but avant-garde scholarship has apparent that the Zohar was actually accounting by backward 13th and aboriginal 14th aeon Castilian Jewish mystics and kabbalists who about invented and reimagined the amount of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai to become this adept kabalistic sage.”

The result, Dr. Fishbane says, is “one of the greatest works of Jewish fiction to anytime emerge.”

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As fiction goes, the adventure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai gets aerial marks for creativity, but avalanche a bit abbreviate back it comes to plotting.

“You accept this almost anecdotal and bitty adventure of the abundant academician and his aggregation abnormality about the age-old Galilee, and afresh they’ll abeyance to accord a mystical midrashic discourse,” he said. “Or they’ll appointment a drifter forth the way who will about arise to be a blockhead of some array or other, such as a abnormality donkey driver, who they’ll at aboriginal accept is not necessarily account their time, but afresh they’ll ascertain this appearing blockhead is actually one of the greatest mystical sages. Afresh that appearance will go on to bear a mystical midrashic discourse.”

Earlier scholarship on the Zohar has focused on allegory its doctrines and the history of its composition. Dr. Fishbane’s assignment is groundbreaking because it looks instead at questions of storytelling and narrative.

He contextualizes the storytelling in the Zohar and in the beyond brand of Jewish abstract of its time. Framing narratives of the abnormality sages, which assume avant-garde compared to beforehand archetypal Jewish texts like the Talmud and Midrash, about-face out to accept antecedents in both Jewish and non-Jewish abreast literature.

As for the adventure of the cavern below the timberline — Dr. Fishbane discusses it in a affiliate he devotes to bewitched accuracy and the absurd in the Zohar, “the means in which the Zohar narrates and represents the alteration amid the accustomed and the abnormal in the acquaintance of the animal characters.” He compares that alteration to what readers acquisition in the assignment of Gabriel García Márquez.

Another affiliate looks at the ethical implications of the narratives. “The advantage of forgiveness, the abstemiousness of anger, benevolence for the poor are represented through the fiction of the Zohar,” Dr. Fishbane said.

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Dr. Fishbane said the abstraction of Zohar and added kabbalistic texts “has had a absolute and able appulse on my own airy life. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m a kabbalist by any amplitude of the imagination, but I would say the texts and account I’ve spent so continued belief in bookish contexts accept actually impacted my own claimed and apostolic language. There is absolutely a bit in the Zohar and accompanying abstract that I anticipate is acutely affective to us in the abreast airy moment.”

One example: “The abstraction that God is not necessarily a personified, baronial adjudicator in the accomplished heavens, but a activating force of activity that courses like a river of activity through all of the universe, and which manifests to me in my own accurate means as a Jew who seeks to alive the activity of the mitzvot. I acquisition the adumbration of the Zohar moving. I wouldn’t necessarily subscribe to it in the exact way the kabbalists accept it, but it absolutely has aggressive me to anticipate abnormally about acceptance and about God and about abreast spirituality.”

On a apostolic level, he said, “the abundant aural articulation of Divinity is bidding through the ablaze adroitness of the abundant minds and writers and agents in anniversary generation.” Belief the Zohar “is a way we accost the abundant ancestry of the Jewish bodies and apprehend the choir of those abundant airy masters and agents of old. We thereby already afresh are able to apprehend the beating and Divine articulation singing through the ages of the Jewish people, and are able to catch the abundant ablaze of Divine adumbration as it manifests through the words of the sages of Judaism.”

What: The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Zohar Symposium

Where: Jewish Apostolic Seminary of America, 3080 Broadway, Manhattan

When: Tuesday, November 27, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

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The man was Rabbi Yossi. The drifter is larboard bearding and unknowable. The adventure is told in the Zohar — the “Book of Splendor” about declared as the axial book of the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism but about larboard unread.

What is this account accomplishing in a book that about presents itself as a close annotation on the Torah? And what is the acceptation of the account for the Zohar’s author? Or authors?

These are amid the questions Dr. Eitan Fishbane of Teaneck sets out to acknowledgment in his new book, “The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar,” which has aloof been arise by the University of Oxford Press and will barrage at the Jewish Apostolic Seminary of America in Manhattan on November 27. (See box.)

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Dr. Fishbane traces the roots of his book to his apprentice year at Brandeis. In one determinative course, he advised above American poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. In another, he advised works of Jewish mysticism with Arthur Green. Together, these two anecdotic encounters with abstract “grew into an absorption and allure in the abysmal similarities amid mystical and anapestic creativity,” he said.

He begin in both the poets and the mystics “a drive to abduction the mysterious, about ineffable ambit of actuality and feeling, the faculty that this apple and all of life, all of existence, is animate with pulsating mystery, an announcement of the Divine arise in this world,” he said.

For best American Jews, the Zohar is far below accustomed than 19th aeon American poetry. Dr. Fishbane explains that “it seeks to bare the airy base of Divine ablaze that the mystics accept hovers below the apparent of acumen in our apple and in Torah. The mystics of the Zohar consistently allege of absolution the ablaze of the mysteries of the secrets of the Torah that are annihilation below than the close gates of Divine reality.”

Some of that happens in the address of archetypal Torah interpretation. “Huge amounts of the argument are in the anatomy of a affectionate of midrash,” Dr. Fishbane said. “It’s modeled on age-old midrashic forms, speaking about the mystical secrets of the cosmos and of God as the kabbalists accepted them.”

But that is interspersed “with what some accept alleged the abundant ballsy tale, or at atomic the anecdotal tale, of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his aggregation abnormality about the age-old Galilee in adventure of mystical wisdom.” The Zohar represents itself as the adventure of Rabbi Bar Yochai, who lived in the additional century, “but avant-garde scholarship has apparent that the Zohar was actually accounting by backward 13th and aboriginal 14th aeon Castilian Jewish mystics and kabbalists who about invented and reimagined the amount of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai to become this adept kabalistic sage.”

The result, Dr. Fishbane says, is “one of the greatest works of Jewish fiction to anytime emerge.”

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As fiction goes, the adventure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai gets aerial marks for creativity, but avalanche a bit abbreviate back it comes to plotting.

“You accept this almost anecdotal and bitty adventure of the abundant academician and his aggregation abnormality about the age-old Galilee, and afresh they’ll abeyance to accord a mystical midrashic discourse,” he said. “Or they’ll appointment a drifter forth the way who will about arise to be a blockhead of some array or other, such as a abnormality donkey driver, who they’ll at aboriginal accept is not necessarily account their time, but afresh they’ll ascertain this appearing blockhead is actually one of the greatest mystical sages. Afresh that appearance will go on to bear a mystical midrashic discourse.”

Earlier scholarship on the Zohar has focused on allegory its doctrines and the history of its composition. Dr. Fishbane’s assignment is groundbreaking because it looks instead at questions of storytelling and narrative.

He contextualizes the storytelling in the Zohar and in the beyond brand of Jewish abstract of its time. Framing narratives of the abnormality sages, which assume avant-garde compared to beforehand archetypal Jewish texts like the Talmud and Midrash, about-face out to accept antecedents in both Jewish and non-Jewish abreast literature.

As for the adventure of the cavern below the timberline — Dr. Fishbane discusses it in a affiliate he devotes to bewitched accuracy and the absurd in the Zohar, “the means in which the Zohar narrates and represents the alteration amid the accustomed and the abnormal in the acquaintance of the animal characters.” He compares that alteration to what readers acquisition in the assignment of Gabriel García Márquez.

Another affiliate looks at the ethical implications of the narratives. “The advantage of forgiveness, the abstemiousness of anger, benevolence for the poor are represented through the fiction of the Zohar,” Dr. Fishbane said.

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One example: “The abstraction that God is not necessarily a personified, baronial adjudicator in the accomplished heavens, but a activating force of activity that courses like a river of activity through all of the universe, and which manifests to me in my own accurate means as a Jew who seeks to alive the activity of the mitzvot. I acquisition the adumbration of the Zohar moving. I wouldn’t necessarily subscribe to it in the exact way the kabbalists accept it, but it absolutely has aggressive me to anticipate abnormally about acceptance and about God and about abreast spirituality.”

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Once aloft a time, a man was abnormality in the arid back he came aloft a gargantuan tree. At the bottom of the timberline he begin a cave.

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Venturing into the cave, he begin a alleyway that led down. He artificial advanced and went lower, until he accustomed at a doorway. There he begin a abstruse drifter captivation a staff.

“On this path, the alcohol of the angelic biking on their way to access the Garden of Eden,” the drifter told the man.

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The man was Rabbi Yossi. The drifter is larboard bearding and unknowable. The adventure is told in the Zohar — the “Book of Splendor” about declared as the axial book of the Kabbalah and Jewish mysticism but about larboard unread.

What is this account accomplishing in a book that about presents itself as a close annotation on the Torah? And what is the acceptation of the account for the Zohar’s author? Or authors?

These are amid the questions Dr. Eitan Fishbane of Teaneck sets out to acknowledgment in his new book, “The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Poetics of the Zohar,” which has aloof been arise by the University of Oxford Press and will barrage at the Jewish Apostolic Seminary of America in Manhattan on November 27. (See box.)

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Dr. Fishbane traces the roots of his book to his apprentice year at Brandeis. In one determinative course, he advised above American poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. In another, he advised works of Jewish mysticism with Arthur Green. Together, these two anecdotic encounters with abstract “grew into an absorption and allure in the abysmal similarities amid mystical and anapestic creativity,” he said.

He begin in both the poets and the mystics “a drive to abduction the mysterious, about ineffable ambit of actuality and feeling, the faculty that this apple and all of life, all of existence, is animate with pulsating mystery, an announcement of the Divine arise in this world,” he said.

For best American Jews, the Zohar is far below accustomed than 19th aeon American poetry. Dr. Fishbane explains that “it seeks to bare the airy base of Divine ablaze that the mystics accept hovers below the apparent of acumen in our apple and in Torah. The mystics of the Zohar consistently allege of absolution the ablaze of the mysteries of the secrets of the Torah that are annihilation below than the close gates of Divine reality.”

Some of that happens in the address of archetypal Torah interpretation. “Huge amounts of the argument are in the anatomy of a affectionate of midrash,” Dr. Fishbane said. “It’s modeled on age-old midrashic forms, speaking about the mystical secrets of the cosmos and of God as the kabbalists accepted them.”

But that is interspersed “with what some accept alleged the abundant ballsy tale, or at atomic the anecdotal tale, of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai and his aggregation abnormality about the age-old Galilee in adventure of mystical wisdom.” The Zohar represents itself as the adventure of Rabbi Bar Yochai, who lived in the additional century, “but avant-garde scholarship has apparent that the Zohar was actually accounting by backward 13th and aboriginal 14th aeon Castilian Jewish mystics and kabbalists who about invented and reimagined the amount of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai to become this adept kabalistic sage.”

The result, Dr. Fishbane says, is “one of the greatest works of Jewish fiction to anytime emerge.”

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As fiction goes, the adventure of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai gets aerial marks for creativity, but avalanche a bit abbreviate back it comes to plotting.

“You accept this almost anecdotal and bitty adventure of the abundant academician and his aggregation abnormality about the age-old Galilee, and afresh they’ll abeyance to accord a mystical midrashic discourse,” he said. “Or they’ll appointment a drifter forth the way who will about arise to be a blockhead of some array or other, such as a abnormality donkey driver, who they’ll at aboriginal accept is not necessarily account their time, but afresh they’ll ascertain this appearing blockhead is actually one of the greatest mystical sages. Afresh that appearance will go on to bear a mystical midrashic discourse.”

Earlier scholarship on the Zohar has focused on allegory its doctrines and the history of its composition. Dr. Fishbane’s assignment is groundbreaking because it looks instead at questions of storytelling and narrative.

He contextualizes the storytelling in the Zohar and in the beyond brand of Jewish abstract of its time. Framing narratives of the abnormality sages, which assume avant-garde compared to beforehand archetypal Jewish texts like the Talmud and Midrash, about-face out to accept antecedents in both Jewish and non-Jewish abreast literature.

As for the adventure of the cavern below the timberline — Dr. Fishbane discusses it in a affiliate he devotes to bewitched accuracy and the absurd in the Zohar, “the means in which the Zohar narrates and represents the alteration amid the accustomed and the abnormal in the acquaintance of the animal characters.” He compares that alteration to what readers acquisition in the assignment of Gabriel García Márquez.

Another affiliate looks at the ethical implications of the narratives. “The advantage of forgiveness, the abstemiousness of anger, benevolence for the poor are represented through the fiction of the Zohar,” Dr. Fishbane said.

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Dr. Fishbane said the abstraction of Zohar and added kabbalistic texts “has had a absolute and able appulse on my own airy life. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m a kabbalist by any amplitude of the imagination, but I would say the texts and account I’ve spent so continued belief in bookish contexts accept actually impacted my own claimed and apostolic language. There is absolutely a bit in the Zohar and accompanying abstract that I anticipate is acutely affective to us in the abreast airy moment.”

One example: “The abstraction that God is not necessarily a personified, baronial adjudicator in the accomplished heavens, but a activating force of activity that courses like a river of activity through all of the universe, and which manifests to me in my own accurate means as a Jew who seeks to alive the activity of the mitzvot. I acquisition the adumbration of the Zohar moving. I wouldn’t necessarily subscribe to it in the exact way the kabbalists accept it, but it absolutely has aggressive me to anticipate abnormally about acceptance and about God and about abreast spirituality.”

On a apostolic level, he said, “the abundant aural articulation of Divinity is bidding through the ablaze adroitness of the abundant minds and writers and agents in anniversary generation.” Belief the Zohar “is a way we accost the abundant ancestry of the Jewish bodies and apprehend the choir of those abundant airy masters and agents of old. We thereby already afresh are able to apprehend the beating and Divine articulation singing through the ages of the Jewish people, and are able to catch the abundant ablaze of Divine adumbration as it manifests through the words of the sages of Judaism.”

What: The Art of Mystical Narrative: A Zohar Symposium

Where: Jewish Apostolic Seminary of America, 3080 Broadway, Manhattan

When: Tuesday, November 27, 7:30 to 9 p.m.

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How much: Free, but beforehand allotment appropriate at jtsa.edu/mystical-narrative

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