fredag 28 mars 2025

Den historiska maten: uppdatering 2

I oktober förra året skrev jag om en bok av mig som var på väg: Den historiska maten. Nu följer uppdatering 2 i ämnet. Boken har nämligen kommit ut nu och kan köpas här. -- Edit juni 2025: Boken finns nu även att köpa på Bokus.com.








I uppdatering 1 skrevs att boken beräknades utkomma i januari.

Så blev det inte. Men nu är boken här i alla fall. Den finns idag att köpa från förlaget. Det är 294 sidor i så kallat danskt band. Köp här.

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Förlaget är alltså Cultura Aetatis. Och hela titeln lyder: Den historiska maten -- från Ludvig XIV till mammas köttbullar.

På sina 294 sidor får ni här en tämligen läsbar mathistorisk översikt med fokus på Frankrike. Folk som Talleyrand, Dumas, Goncourt mm passerar revy. Frankrike med dess matlagningstradtion är fokus i boken, men vi läser även om sådant som snabbmat och militärmat.

Sedan ges en rad kapitel med praktiska tips, allt grundat i min erfarenhet som gourmetkock. Här får ni en master class i matlagning. De mest elementära grunderna hoppas över, men för alla matälskare är den information jag ger synnerligen användbar. Och läsbar. Detta är en läsbar kokbok. En kokbok för läsfåtöljen och hängmattan.

Här ges även kapitel om berömda matskildringar. Samt berömda konstnärer och författares högre matvanor.

Kort sagt, det här är som hittat för 279 kronor.







Köp boken på Bokus.com.







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måndag 24 mars 2025

A little something about rune magic...

Greetings, disciple...








We are preaching the Truth™...

And so we say...

Amen.

And so we say:

Ir-min-sul is a word... having to do with "world column, axis mundi"...

But there's more...

The word has the runes Yr – man – sol... in runic writing, :ᛦ:ᛘ:ᚼ:

And the meaning is... "death and resurrection, for an eternal life as a sun".

This is an alchemical-mystical truth.

A mindful superman resurrects after death and lives on as a sun.







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lördag 22 mars 2025

The Superman: the Truth™

Howdy.








This is a preachment.

This is the rustic-rigorist truth.

And so it is...

Amen.

And so I say:

The superman is a goal to strive for.

To be more than just a man.

“Man is a rope stretched between animal and the superman.”

To be more than he is a man must meditate on the Absolute.

He must mobilize his Will in order to control every thought, every emotion, every nerve, every muscle.

He must be beyond the common fears and superstitions.

He must act with Movement As A State, seek Rest In Action, and Acknowledge Memento Mori.

He must embrace both Good and Evil, “integrating the opposites”.

Having thus internalized them he has transcended the human condition – he has become an Übermensch, a living god.

He is total man, absolute man, responsible man – a divya, a vīra, existing “jenseits von Gut und Böse”...







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söndag 16 mars 2025

The upcoming Evola book: last update

The book is out now...! My Evola book is in stores. You can now buy it on Amazon.com. -- And on Amazon.se. And on Bokus.








New book: update 1
New book: update 2
New book: update 3







This will be a short update. And the last. The next post about this book will be the formal presentation. -- Now we will only say that the Evola book is in stores now.

The title of the book is: A Portrait of Julius Evola: An Introduction to the Spiritual Traditionalism & Modernist Critique of Julius Evola.

As you can see the book has a delightful cover, courtesy of the publisher, Manticore Press. This is a cover of marble and gold...!

The backover blurb of the book reads:
JULIUS EVOLA, an influential and enigmatic Italian philosopher, left a profound impact on the intellectual world. Renowned for his critique of the West's abandonment of tradition and spiritual depth, Evola's ideas are more relevant than ever in our modern age. After his passing in 1974, his work experienced a resurgence in the 1990s, captivating a new generation yearning for deeper connections to ancient wisdom. Today, his teachings continue to inspire those seeking to reclaim esoteric thought and timeless values. This compelling new book offers an insightful exploration of Evola's life and philosophy, providing a stylish and engaging guide to his enduring legacy.

Lennart Svensson, author of Ernst Jünger — A Portrait and Actionism, returns with this new and thought-provoking study.
There you go. This is it...!

Some general info about this masterpiece:

Title: A Portrait of Julius Evola: An Introduction to the Spiritual Traditionalism & Modernist Critique of Julius Evola
Publisher: Manticore Press
Language: English
Pages: 210
Dimensions: 5 x 0.53 x 8 inches (circa 12 x 1 x 20 cm)







Buy the book on Amazon.com.

Buy the book on Bokus.







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onsdag 12 mars 2025

The upcoming Evola book: update 3

As I've already told you, a new book by me is coming soon. -- Edit April: the book is out now.








New book: update 1
New book: update 2







You know it by now. My next book will be about Julius Evola.

And I've already told you what the book will be like: here and here.

Today I will tell you what Evola means for me personally.

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In the 90s I graduated from Uppsala University. As a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Indology. The study of ancient Sanskrit documents gave me a firm footing in Tradition™ -- though I didn't know it back then...!

I mean: I did know that I now had a solid base in something else than modern thought, nihilism, atheism, the curriculum otherwise taught at university. But that conceptual spin, that doctrinal framework of "this is Tradition, this is different from modernity" -- that was absent. I had only read some books by Prabhupâda, the Hindu missionaire for Sanâtana Dharma. That was a start.

Later, in 2007, I went out on the internet. Then I learned of the Traditional School, with names like Guénon, Schuon -- and Evola.

This was it...!

These men talked about something I could relate to.

This Traditional School taught a doctrine, subsuming studies in ancient languages (I had also studied classic Greek) into a conceptual-polemical stance, saying, as intimated, this is Tradition, this is different from modernity...!

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What was, then, the Traditional doctrine Evola preached? -- For this I refer to the upcoming book.

I will only say: Evola made me wise -- he made me wiser...!

This demands some explanation.

So I say: by the time I started buying and reading Evolian books -- in about 2010 -- I was already studied. I was already a well-read radical conservative. Spengler, Jünger, Nietzsche, Wagner, and Goethe, had alerady made me see things differently from the modernist nonsense otherwise proclaimed.

But these guys, though venerable, lack that extra spiritual depth. They lack that initiated strain of Evola and Guénon.

Therefore any true wiseman today must go beyond modern thought.

He must read the ontological classics.

And a first introduction into such a Traditionalism will be my book about Evola.

This is, in short, what Evola means to me and how you, too, can get wiser by employing the Traditional approach.







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New book: update 2







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lördag 8 mars 2025

Svenssongalaxen recenserar: I teknohordens skugga (Olofsson 2025)

Här följer en titt på en ny bok. Boken ifråga har nämnts förut här på Galaxen. Nu kommer den utlovade, grundliga recensionen.








Köp boken på Amazon.se







Nyss fick jag frågan om jag ville läsa och recenserna en ny bok.

Jag sa ja. Eftersom boken verkade intressant: en sf-roman.

Jag har nu läst boken. Den är skriven av Nils Klintvik Olofsson. I teknohordens skugga är titeln. I stora drag så höll den vad baksidestexten lovade: ett sf-äventyr i en dystopisk framtid. Några brister finns i det språkliga utförandet, men överlag så gav boken ett fräscht intryck. Detta är sf som förtjänar sin genrebeteckning.

Handlingen. -- Antydningsvis så befinner vi oss i Sverige i framtiden, även om varken "Sverige" eller något årtal nämns. Civilisationen har brakat samman. De folkspillror som finns kämpar en kamp mot "teknohorden", tekniskt augmenterade djur såsom noshörningar med laserkanon i pannan. Den som styr dessa djur är en gåtfull superdator. En tveksam hjälp i kampen har man från ett militärförband kallade "metallmän".

Mycket hinner hända innan det hela är över. Handlingen är tät och actionfylld. Den speciella framtid det gäller är rätt väl skildrad, med fokus i en huvudsakligen lågteknologisk by av "trädkramare", Torvaborg. Därtill har vi "metallmännen", grupperade i en jämförelsevis högteknologisk utpost. Persongalleriet är för sin del varierat och trovärdigt. Handlingen är väl strukturerad med osökt presentation av scenariot och de olika aktörerna, konfliktens utveckling, samt ett klimax mot slutet. Därefter nedtoning och avslutning med ganska god tonträff i stilen.

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Bristerna då?

Bristerna ligger i den ska vi säga jordnära, konkreta språkbehandlingen. Grammatiska fel finns, inte himmelsskriande många, men ja, de finns. Därtill möter ibland ett något otympligt sätt att skildra saker och ting.

Boken borde ha korrekturlästs bättre: stavfel av typen slarvfel, samt pronomen av typen sin/hans, kräver här bättre koll. Det är iaf min huvudpunkt på kritiksidan. Och skildringen kunde ställvis ha varit mindre pedantisk. Man förstår alltid vad författaren vill säga, romanen är aldrig dunkel, men i detaljernas utmejslande har det hela ibland blivit lite rörigt.

Men detta kan i stort sett hänvisas till nybörjarfel. Man får, som kritiker, inte vara för kritisk mot en debutroman.

Med andra ord: språkliga/grammatiska detaljer kan en författare lära sig. Och att strömlinjeforma sitt uttryck kan uppnås med övning och rutin. Svårare att lära sig är skapandet av sådant som intrig, framtidsscenario, tekniska innovationer, neologismer ("nya ord") samt persongalleri. Och då vill jag hävda: på dessa punkter består denna roman provet tämligen väl.

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Man kan säga: i de två grundelementen för en roman, intrig och persongalleri, består I teknohordens skugga provet.

Ja mer än så: här finns miljöer, karaktärer, actionscener. Samt för sf så nödvändig innovation, kreation, skapandet av föremål och neologismer och annat som öht gör det hela till sf.

Jag anser: boken har ett slags primitiv charm. Den har tillräcklig nivå på sina skapelser, miljöer och scener. Mångfalden teknisk rekvisita gör att man minns den sedan man lagt ifrån sig den.

Detta är sf, ren sf. Sf som på varje sida påminner läsaren att detta är "framtid, annorlunda". I detaljer, repliker och scenerier finns genom hela romanen indikationer som samverkar till den obeskrivbara sf-stämningen.

Det hela är en unik skapelse; det är inte "fan fiction", det är inte stulen rekvisita, så där som man annars kan få se i nybörjarsammanhang. Tvärtom: Klintvik Olofsson har lagt ner tid och energi på sin kreation, på hela den speciella myten som rullas upp. Därtill är det en svensk roman, med antytt svenskt sceneri. Detta har sitt värde; detta förankrar boken i svensk sf-tradition,

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Som sagt: språket har sina brister, men man förstår ändå hela tiden vad som pågår. Att teknohordens själva bakgrund inte utreds kan man leva med. Det nämns för övrigt i själva berättelsen att man inte visste varifrån den kom. Och därmed är ändå scenen beredd för det viktiga: action!

Actionscenerna är av godkänd klass. Här spelar författarens inspirationskällor såsom 70-talets kioskböcker med tämligen väl. Författaren skrev i sitt introduktionsmail till mig att han påverkats av verk som Casca, De överlevande, Lindqvist sf-pocket mm. Och hans färdiga verk, I teknohorden, lever i stort sett upp till den anda som detta frammanar. Här gäller action, här finns ett slags "djävlaranamma" som måste till för att skapa en spänningsroman, ja en roman öht.

Detta med djävlarannamma, "the word is gusto" som Chandler sa -- detta har inte alla fattat. Man måste som författare ibland låta den stora, tragiska ambitionen vila och istället få skeppet flott med konkret handling. Man måste kort sagt låta blodet flyta när det gäller genrelitteratur som deckare, thriller och militärisk sf. Nu är I teknohorden ingen våldsorgie, den är rätt human i sin skildring av denna hårda framtid -- men här finns ändå rätt nivå på actionscenerna. Det handlar om att låta striden ha sin gång och skildra den med verve och inlevelse. Och inte göra det till moralistisk klagan av typen "varför skola mänskor strida"...

Detta slipper vi här, tack o lov. Var sak har sin tid. Det har författaren förstått. Vardaglig frid och ro, vardaglig konflikt, samt stridens intensitet. Här finns allt, i en överlag väl samspelande helhet.

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Här finns inte bara action. Det finns även en antydd moralisk dimension med "naturens hämnd" och Moder Natur själv i en scen. Samt en shamanfigur som får symbolisera andlig strävan, även i denna dystopiska framtid. Här drar författaren religiösa ess ur rockärmen måste jag säga.

På det rent produktionsmässiga kontot kan nämnas andra plusvapen. Såsom det behändiga pocketformatet, som en kioskbok, fast med bättre papper. Därtill har vi omslag av serieromanen Neo-Germanias skapare, Henrik Jonasson. Han bidrar även med tre svart-vita illustrationer i inlagan. Jag kallar detta "god grafisk standard och mervärde".

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Jag medger att jag ibland fördes mellan hopp och förtvivlan under läsandet av denna roman. Detaljbristerna hotade att göra mig negativ, även med tanke på att det var en debutroman.

Men som antytt, I teknohorden levererade ändå. Den klarade provet för "sf-roman" genom sitt utstuderade framtidssceneri, persongalleriet med sin mer än nöjaktiga utmejsling, samt handlingens "flow" och kulmen. Denna kulmen hade en vetenskaplig twist som överraskade men som var plausibel.

Det må vara att jag läst svenska debutromaner från 2000-talet som haft bättre grammatik och något bättre korrläsning. Men viktigt i sammanhanget är också att här, som sagt, finns innovation, kreation, en glädje i att skapa nyord och i att uppfinna tekniska ting. Detta är essentiellt för sf och Klintvik Olofsson har förstått det.







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Nils Klintvik Olofsson
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tisdag 4 mars 2025

Water and stillness (poem)

Today I will give you some poems... enjoy.








This is about poetry... song... poesy... and now it begins...







Water and stillness...

My mother was Scorpio... water and immutability...

I was Sagittarius... fire and mutability...

Water and stillness, fire and movement... quite a fine combo we were...







Philae temple, mirrored in the Nile... red sandstone, lined with greenery... water and stillness...

A man swimming in a grotto, a pool under a cavern roof... water blue-green, water still... water and stillness...

A canal in a Chinese town, ancient town, brick houses with wooden balconies... water and stillness...







San Antonio --

St Petersburg --

Saintly Petra, hewn out of the rock wall --

Half Dome and Moon... Utsikt över Skuru... Montmartre in the Moonlight.

... burgundy red Renault R16, jeweled headlights, suspension wheels... Chevy wrecker truck, yellow and green, BP livery... and "Alpine Rescue" Citroën... with sled, medic, and St Bernard dog... "hab' ich euch endlich"... all this, on a background of Ströms Vattudal in midnight claire obscure...







Pearl S. Buck, the duck with the bucks --

I live in Dharma Town, looking down on Clown Town --

I only live on prasâda, consecrated wine and bread... say grace and every meal becomes a feast with the gods...







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söndag 2 mars 2025

World situation deliberation

This year, 2025, will be historical... great changes are occurring in the world.








Where to start...?

At the beginning.

If so, an ontological summary of the universe is needed.

And I've already written that. The beginning of it all, the battle between Light and Dark.

It was covered in Actionism -- How to Become a Responsible Man (2017).
And also in Astral War -- Your Soul Is the Battlefield (2023).

I'm not primarily here to sell books... but I will only say, I know about what makes the universe tick.

Good and evil fights for mastery with the world as the battlefield.

That's how it's been since the dawn of time.

And now, to avoid a lengthy sermon on this epic narrative, let's fast forward to 2012.

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This year, 2012, was hyped as a breakthrough year. Evil powers would be defeated, mass arrests would occur, positive aliens would perform mass landings.

That was the message spread on the internet.

Then nothing came of it.

Next we had the first period of power for American president Donald J. Trump (henceforward: DJT). In 2016-2020.

Again promising prospects were intimated. Again, in defating evil, nothing had been accomplished when DJT was defeated in the 2020 election.

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Then came 2024...

I had a feeling of: now something must happen. Something to break the stalemate.

The past four years, yea, the past 30 years, had seen cultural stagnation. Political correctness had been in charge. And as an author I had made a stance against this "woke" agenda, protesting against the oppression.

Read Actionism,
and read Astral War to see proofs of my preachment against The Powers That Be, 2010-2020s style.

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2024: the upcoming presidential elections in the US must bring change, I thought.

And they did. DJT won in November. And he said: I will now take down the Deep State...!

That was a different rhetoric from last time. Details aside, DJT was now more driven. He was now having more authority to really battle evil in the form of "weaponized wokeness", the oppressive agenda of mass immigration, vx, and a nihilist-modernist cultural climate.

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The focus in this article is on the spiritual significance of DJT's role.

I personally made a stance in mid-November, trying to outline the mindful meaning of DJT. And I did it by writing this on the blog, saying that the struggle of DJT against his opponents is a fight between good and evil.

For instance I said that DJT is an instrument of God, an avenging angel.

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I had been led to this conclusion by some private deliberation. And some internet research, like mentioning "the Hopi prophecy of 1972", which speaks of "the Man in the Red Hat"... well, there you have that MAGA golf hat DJT is wearing... it's mythical now.

Links then, we need links! the reader says.

I'll get to that. However, I give no link to "Hopi" though, since I didn't give that in my November text either. But you can google Hopi prophect of 1972.

Now, regarding the spiritual resource Kab, we can give you links.

The man named Kab aka. Kabamur... has some interesting info about the situation... and he says that D. J. Trump is the incarnated solar angel Uriel... the Archangel of transformation... in other words, the archangel of change... yea, change, what we are seeing unfolding IRL right now...

This was said in a tweet... and on his webpage, with pertinent illustrations of Uriel and DJT side by side, we read, "Many Have A Difficult Time Understanding Donald Trump Is The Identity Chosen By Archangel Uriel!"

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Further, referred to by someone else on Twitter, Alacon, Kab says this about DJT's son, Barron Trump:
"The being known as Master St. Germain is also a TRUMP ... Barron Trump will be revealed to be one of the brightest minds on the planet. A leader in the coming age of New Atlantis." – Kabamur (January 22, 2018)
As you see, I refer to stuff said on the net by a spiritual wiseman. Because I see this as pointers to how it is.

It explains the state of things, the state of DJT, the state of Barron Trump.

It explains their behavior.

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As I already have figured out, DJT is the instrument of God... an avenging angel... as I wrote in Swedish on this blog in November last year... see link... and to this we have the incarnation, as his son, of the spirit who used to be revolution era mystic St Germain...

I say, rejoice, man...

And again, these are exceptional times... 2025 will be like nothing on earth.

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Let's have a closer look at the solar angel aspect of DJT. Of him being Uriel incarnate.

DJT, as a person, is rather solar.

He builds palaces of gold and marble.

His rhetoric is shaped by figures like "golden age" and "saved by God".

This has got to be underlined.

For, as a contrast, I just saw someone saying that Trump was a trickster, like pagan joutun figure Loki. Said in a Swedish blog.

But I say, Loki is nowhere near the Trump gestalt. Loki has nothing of DJT's shining aura.

Further, Loki has no temple. But Trump has Mar-a-Lago. And other monumental structures like Trump Tower.

Go into the lobby of Trump tower and see the marble-and-gold of divine splendor... go there and figure.

Loki is divisive. Like today's left and even mainstream right politicians. Creating chaos, war, division. Trump, on the other hand, makes peace.

This is far from the dark aura of the Loki figure.

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Then you might say: Trump is a blunt, unsmiling man. Not a nice guy.

What defines DJT is the rough, tough guy persona. An uncharming fellow.

He can't be "divine, an instrument of God"... divine avatars are meant to be nice.

But this, serendipitoulsy, clarifies another aspect debated today: the question of whether DJT might be the Antichrist.

The Antichrist, told of in the Bible, is, however, a charming, suave fellow, making everybody like him at first.

Absolute contrary to the DJT type we know.

In short, an archangel isn't nice...! Not from an everyday, human perspective.

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The archangel strain has another aspect.

On on 30 September 2024, before the election, DJT tweeted this, an epic prayer:
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
A divine figure like an archangel or an avatar might well preach. In The Book About Krishna, Prabhupâda mentions how Krishna begins the day by praying in silence to God, which here would mean Vishnu.

No contradiction in that.

DJT, in his essential angelic mood, prayed to Archangel Michael.

Have you heard about him, Archangel Michael, divine force of retribution...?

Sword in hand, defeating evil on a cosmic scale.

DJT is now, on earth, IRL, doing this.

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The thing making this divine strain of DJT complete is, as intimated, that his son Barron might be Saint Germain incarnate. See above.

I've personally blogged about St Germain before. In this post (in English) I said that he was the oft-mentioned mystic, alchemist, and expert musician of the French revolution era. Before this, his spirit had incarnated as Merlin the Magician. This explains the nature of Barron Trump, why he looks so confident.

DJT will pave the way for his son to be a New Age leader.

DJT will do the avenging, punishing, war-like stuff of defeating the Deep State, in all its aspects.

Then, with all the bad guys executed or in jail, the stage would be clear for the spriritual raising of mankind. In this pattern, Barron Trump can be a crucial New Age preacher and teacher, a "world teacher" of the kind Annie Besant envisioned for Krishnamurti.

That was in the 1910s and 1920s. The time wasn't ripe for that kind of mindfulness then. But it is now.

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So then, a little summarizing Q and A about DJT...

Is he the Antichrist? -- No.

Is he a trickster, like Loki? Is he a clown? -- No.

Is he a new Caesar? -- Maybe, but that's an insufficient simile.

'Coz if DJT represents anything, it's solar-angelical power of transformation.

In short, DJT could be archangel Uriel incarnate.

And his son has the potential for new age teaching and preaching.

Barron Trump was Saint Germain... an alchemist, a gold maker... and now he's reborn as the son of a man, DJT, building palaces of gold... and speaking of a coming golden age...

There you go. Say what you want, but we are living in unusual times.







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