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The Martian alphabet
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"A linguistic registry of an unverified extraterrestrial lexicon. Hyslop, a prominent psychical researcher, attempts to document a non-human alphabet transmitted through spiritual mediums. It represents a vital junction in the Xenobiblia: a human text attempting to create a literal hermeneutic for a language that may not exist."
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As Is When: A series of screen prints based on the life and writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Music Fundamentals for Barbershoppers
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"An instruction manual written by a secret-society-style acronym (The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America). The text codifies the rigid mathematical laws of four-part harmony, transforming a casual, nostalgic human pastime into a strict, highly regimented acoustic ritual."
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Life Force: Dowsing the Life Frequency of Commercial Dog Food
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"A spectacular artifact of suburban technomancy. Keehn applies the ancient, occult practice of dowsing—traditionally used to locate subterranean water—to evaluate the metaphysical vibrations of industrialized pet kibble. It stands as a premier example of domestic paraliterature attempting to find spiritual resonance in processed consumer goods."
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Women, Dry Those Tears
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"An intensely localized, mid-century tract of emotional or religious consolation. Written with a singular, urgent focus, Jamieson's text isolates the vast, universal concept of grief and attempts to soothe it through a highly specific, historically frozen framework of consolation."
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Dreamscape: Five Animated Sculptures by Gregory Barsamian
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"A catalog detailing the mechanics of translating subconscious nightmares into three-dimensional, strobe-lit kinetics. Barsamian’s kinetic sculptures exploit human persistence of vision to trap fleeting dream-logic in physical loops, rendering the fleeting architecture of the mind into solid, looping debris."
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The Rise and Fall of the Peanut Party. Journal: Twenty Days in November
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"A micro-chronicle of an intensely brief political anomaly. Mitchell tracks a twenty-day window in November where a highly localized fringe movement flared up and immediately dissolved. The text functions as a pristine specimen of transient political paraliterature, capturing a micro-history that time entirely forgot."
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Tea in China and Legends of Monkeys Gathering Tea
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"A brief, historical inquiry into inter-species agricultural myths. Ukers investigates the localized folklore of simians trained—or mythologized—to harvest rare tea leaves from inaccessible cliff faces, balancing sober economic botany with the fantastical margins of animal labor."
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The Effects of Inbreeding on Japanese Children
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"A chillingly clinical, mid-century genetic survey. Schull reduces complex human lineage, taboo, and isolated post-war biology into strict mathematical probabilities and physiological data points. The text functions as a cold, unsettling window into institutional human taxonomy."
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Primetime Contemporary Art: Art by the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place
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"A documentation of a sophisticated conceptual infiltration. Chin details how a group of artists covertly smuggled avant-garde art pieces, political symbols, and social commentary into the background props of a 1990s network soap opera. A prime record of high-art parasites nesting inside commercial human media."
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Little Known Facts About the Witches in Our Hair: Curious lore about the uses and abuses of hair throughout the world in all ages
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"A manic regional compilation tracking the global history of trichological superstition. Aurand catalogues humanity's historic panic regarding hair as a conduit for curses, spirits, and witchcraft, reducing thousands of years of varied folklore into a paranoid, pocket-sized handbook."
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The Quartz Crystal history of Perry Township since the earliest creation of life: Being an eye witness account of the first Druze settler to show up in ... county of Dane, etcetera
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"A towering monument of eccentric regional cosmology. Hamady combines hyper-localized midwestern geography, ancient geological formations, and an impossible "eyewitness" timeline of a Druze pioneer in Dane County. This booklet represents the ultimate junk-drawer history, completely discarding rational linear time in favor of a personal, crystalline mythos."
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Dried Embryos
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"An avant-garde textual mutation. Originally conceived by Satie as a satirical, absurdist musical suite mocking classical stuffiness, this small-press printing (with Winkfield's visual interventions) distills pure, deadpan surrealism into the written word. It stands as a vital specimen of intentional, high-order paraliterary subversion."
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The flaming Ben Hogan: Pugilist, pirate, gambler, Civil War spy, oil magnate, evangelist
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"A breathless biography of a human chameleon whose life defies structural reality. Fleischer attempts to catalog a single human who cycled through nearly every extreme archetype available to 19th-century society. The text reads less like a historical record and more like a fictional algorithm trying to simulate a chaotic human life."
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Brunel's Tunnel And Where It Led: An Explanation of the Works of the Tunnel under the Thames now completed from Rotherhithe to Wapping
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"A historical-geographical autopsy of a subterranean anomaly. Falk details the grueling engineering behind the world's first tunnel under a navigable river, transforming an infrastructure report into a psychological descent. It treats the tunnel not merely as a passage from Rotherhithe to Wapping, but as an entryway into a strange, underground epoch."
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Further notes on the use of stilts
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"A deceptively hyper-focused anthropological addendum. Lindblom bypasses major human migrations and technologies to obsess entirely over the mechanics, distribution, and cultural anomalies of walking on elevated wooden poles. It treats a highly specialized physical oddity with total, unblinking institutional gravity."
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METADATAPHILE: The Collapse of Visual Information
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"A gallery document capturing the terminal decay of human archiving systems. This catalog serves as a autopsy report on data rot, examining the point where hyper-documentation ceases to provide clarity and instead implodes into visual noise. It acts as an inadvertent warning label for the Xenobiblia itself."
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The Secret of the Di-gamma, Or Two-fold power
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Revolution In The Body-Mind: Forewarning Cancer Dreams and the Bioplasma Concept
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Laments of Mulciber the Isagoge
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The Eyes Have It In Selling Life Insurance
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"A mid-century manual detailing commercial hypnosis disguised as corporate training. Mathus codifies the exact optics, gestures, and visual triggers required to extract capital from humans by exploiting their fear of mortality. It reads like a field guide for a predatory species operating within a bureaucratic economy."
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Bibliokleptomania
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"A clinical pathology of literary obsession. Thompson chronicles the historical phenomenon of individuals driven by an uncontrollable, manic compulsion to steal books. It is a meta-paraliterary specimen: a book documenting the psychological parasite that forces humans to illegally hoard other books."
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Spider Divination in the Cameroons
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"An ethnographic study documenting an ingenious, non-human cryptography system. Gebauer details how earth spiders are used to rearrange leaf cards to decode the future. It is a premier paraliterary artifact—a literal instruction manual for extracting cosmic meaning from the behavior of arachnids."
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Funny Noises for the Connoisseur
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Creation: Cosmic Radiation in Florida
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Pleasant Days With Joe and Sam
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Conjurers Coins And Medals: An Historical Survey Including Some Circus And Music Hall Pieces
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Former Yakuza horror W stalker to mothers boy: Frenzy stalker Bird carcasses and poop thrown at the entrance
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the letter m joins with the letter w: (to teach us how the union of opposites enriches our life)
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Spiritism, the Hidden Secret in Einstein's Theory of Relativity
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"A premier example of cosmological cross-contamination. Speight-Humberston attempts to forcibly marry early 20th-century theoretical physics with Victorian spiritualism. The result is a beautifully unhinged tract that treats gravity as a medium for the occult."
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The Man Who Wrecked 146 Locomotives: The Story of "Head-On Joe" Connolly
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Preliminary Studies of a Vaudeville Telepathist
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Haywire Mac and the 'Big Rock Candy Mountain'
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"A monograph tracking the folklore of a secular hobo paradise. Young dissects the cultural anatomy of a mythic landscape where cigarettes grow on trees and lakes are made of stew. The booklet serves as a brilliant map of transient human escapism born from deep socioeconomic decay."
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The Contribution Of British Writers Between 1560 And 1830 To The Interpretation Of Revelation 13.16 18
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The blue bug: A manual of sorcery with cigarette papers
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From Dope Fiends Cell to the Pulpit: The Case of Convict Number 63913 New York City Penitentiary
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Working with aborigines in remote areas
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The Book of the Quaker Oat Secret Society
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"A bizarre convergence of corporate marketing and mock-esoteric ritualism. This artifact captures the moment a mundane breakfast staple crossed the threshold into corporate myth-making, demanding a strange, cult-like loyalty from its juvenile initiates."
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Once Upon A Time, In Arkansas...: Tales of encounters with the Little People in Arkansas and neighboring regions
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Tomato Ketchups 1914
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The Ku Klux Klan in Prophecy
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The Problem Child in School: Narratives from Case Records of Visiting Teachers,
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"A fascinatingly dry, bureaucratic glimpse into early 20th-century social engineering. By converting the unpredictable chaos of childhood rebellion into rigid, clinical case files, Sayles inadvertently creates a haunting, quotidian catalog of domestic discipline."
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Solar Spectrum Pitch & Temperament Frequency Charts with Intervals and Cymatics
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Report From The Select Committee On Sky-Writing
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The Bookplate Designs of Austin Osman Spare / Robert Ansell
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Whole Body Counters
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Le Tessere Erotiche Romane: Spintriae, quando ed a che scopo sono state coniate
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"A scholarly, hyper-focused investigation into spintriae—ancient Roman tokens depicting explicit acts, rumored to be used as currency in brothels. Simonetta approaches the deeply scandalous with the cold, sterile rigor of an antiquarian, turning antiquity's junk drawer into a formal thesis."
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Prophecy And The Comet: Biblical Impact Of Shoemaker-Levy 9
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"A frantic exercise in real-time apocalyptic mapping. Walsh interprets the literal, violent fracturing of a comet colliding with Jupiter through the lens of ancient biblical eschatology. It stands as a perfect specimen of emergency theology, scrambling to find divine architecture in random celestial debris."
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Metasexual Exercises: A Holistic Approach to Sex
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Mysteriously Saved: An astrological investigation into Bob Dylan's conversion to American fundamentalism
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All the King's Men: The Elvis Impersonators
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Kissing: Its Curious Bible Mentions
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Control AIDS thru Homoeopathy
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Satie for the Guitar
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Hotel Zymoglyphic
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Oceanic Headrests: Sleep with the Ancestors / Appuie-Nuque Oceaniens: Dormir Avec Les Ancestres
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Poultry Oddities: History, Folklore
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21 Monumental Sculptures for Insects
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I.D.'s Mr. ReeeeSearch Continued
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Indentures at an Exhibition: A Poem for the Atari 2600
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Rocks That Shock: Or, the Great Electrical Wonder at Hillman, Ga
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Bibliography on the Polemic Problem: What Is the Value of Pi
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Barehand Psychic Surgery
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Super Sculpture: Using Science, Technology, and Natural Phenomena in Sculpture
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Bowel Stirring Things: A Natural History of Mental Laxatives & the Bowel as Predator Detector
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The Magic Staff or Rod in Graeco-Italian Antiquity
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goose new technology
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Puppet Heads and Their Making: A Theorem with Woodcuts
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The Finding of Rainbow's End, and Other Mystical Experiences in the "Mother Lode" Country During 1930
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The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass in the British Museum: A Criticism of Life
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Poles Apart: The Public Sedans of Bygone London
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The New Gravity: Einstein Monster #2
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"Philip" or The Autobiography of a "Dope Fiend"
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Whiskey Road
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The Celestial Splendor Shining Forth from Geometric Thought and on the Motion of the Apparently Fixed Stars
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Great Locofoco Juggernaut,: A new console-a-tory sub-treasury rag-monster;
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Sun salutation anus: Anal solar absorption to elevate body and spirit
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Brutal London: Construct Your Own Concrete Capital
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Pledge of Allegiance & Swastika Secrets
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Found at Last: The Veritable Garden of Eden - Or, a place that answers the Bible description of the notable spot better than anything yet discovered
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Heroic Emblems
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Robots on Their Battlefields: And other New York World's Fair poems
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Cranks, 1921: An Anthology
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A Description of the Radio-Active Appliance; For physical, mental, spiritual regeneration and attunement
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Fish Decoys of the Lac Du Flambeau Ojibway
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The aereon, or flying-ship
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Alice's Adventures in Atomland in the Plastic Age
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Religious philosophies of the planets: How our brothers and sisters from outer space believe and worship, as told to me by Mara LaAspara, whose home is on Venus
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Henry's Glass Eye Story
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A Friendly Chat and Plain Talk about Mind Reading
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TV's Original Balloonatic
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N.A.S.T.R.O. LEARNING: Neural Automatic System [for] Textual Reorganization [and] Output
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Spectro-Biology
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Facial Choreographies: Performing the Face in Popular Dance
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How to Make Copper Scorpions
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The Historic Parallel, Being a Compilation and Arrangement of Historic Facts
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"A manic compilation born from the human obsession with patterns. Rouse forcibly arranges disparate historical events into parallel timelines to prove history repeats itself by a rigid, hidden law. It reads less like objective history and more like an obsessive cosmic grid mapping human echo chambers."
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Ancient Egyptian Anchors and the Sea
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Mother Mary's Assistance Today in Having Perfectly-Born Children: Compiled from the Teachings of the Bridge to Freedom
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The Guatemalan Slingshot
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How to Dress in Wartime
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