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 . . . HEROES see: "FAME" see: "ZEAL" see: "CHARACTER" for other related links see: "WAR & PEACE" for other related links ANDREA: Unhappy the land that has no heroes. GALILEO: No, Unhappy the land that needs heroes. --Bertolt Brecht (18981956) German dramatist. _The Life of Galileo_ [1939] [Telephone call to his wife from hijacked airplane:] I know we're all going to die there's three of us who are going to do something about it. ... I love you honey. --Tom Burnett, a California businessman on UA flight 93 saying goodbye to his wife. Quoted in "S.F. Chronicle" [12 September 2001]. - No man is a hero to his valet. --Mme. A.M. Bigot de Cornuel (16051694) French society hostess. _Lettres de Mille Aοssι_, Letter 13 "De Paris, 1728" [1787] & see: Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (17491832) German poet, novelist, and playwright. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Treasury of Thought_, p. 233 [15th ed. 1894]. - ^ Winston Churchill (18741965) British statesman and prime minister. In the summer of 1941 Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded the Victoria Cross for climbing out onto the wing of his Wellington bomber, 13,000 feet above the Zuider Zee, to extinguish a fire in the starboard engine. Secured only by a rope around his waist, he managed not only to smother the fire but also to return along the wing to the aircraft's cabin. Churchill, an admirer as well as a performer of swashbuckling exploits, summoned the shy New Zealander to 10 Downing Street. Ward, struck dumb with awe in Churchill's presence, was unable to answer the prime minister's questions. Churchill surveyed the unhappy hero with some compassion. 'You must feel very humble and awkward in my presence,' he said. 'Yes, sir,' managed Ward. 'Then you can imagine how humble and awkward I feel in yours,' said Churchill. --_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_ edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.] ^ [Of veterans of the D-Day invasion:] They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and the ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world. --Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton (b. 1946) American Democratic statesman and president [19932001]. Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day, Colleville-sur-Mer, France [6 June 1994]. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military. I personally would like to see a million Mogadishus. --Columbia University professor Nicholas de Genova. In Ron Howell, "Radicals Speak Out At Columbia Teach-In," _Newsday_ [27 March 2003]. Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. --Benjamin Disraeli (18041881) British Tory statesman, novelist, and Prime Minister [1868, 18741880]. _Coningsby_, bk. 3, ch. I [1844] The cult of the hero is the absolutely necessary complement of the massification of society. We see the automatic creation of this cult in connection with champion athletes [and] movie stars. ... The individual who is prevented by circumstances from becoming a real person, who can no longer express himself through personal thought or action, who finds his aspirations frustrated, projects onto the hero all he would wish to be. He lives vicariously and experiences the athletic or amorous or military exploits of the god with whom he lives in spiritual symbiosis. --Jacques Ellul (19121994) French author and educator. _Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes_ [1962] Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. _Essays_ [1841] "Heroism" Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes. --Victor Hugo (18021885) French poet, dramatist, and novelist. _Les Miserables_ [1862], "Marius" More books have been written about Napoleon than about any other human being. The fact is deeply and alarmingly significant. What must be the daydreams of people for whom the world's most agile social climber and ablest bandit is the hero they most desire to hear about? Duces and Fuehrers will cease to plague the world only when the majority of its inhabitants regard such adventurers with the same disgust as they now bestow on swindlers and pimps. So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. --Aldous Huxley (18941963) English novelist (grandson of T.H. Huxley.) "Decentralization and Self-Government" in _End and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals and into the Methods Employed for Their Realization_ [1937] These heroes are dead. They died for liberty they died for us. They are at rest. They sleep in the land they made free, under the flag they rendered stainless, under the solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the tearful willows, and the embracing vines. They sleep beneath the shadows of the clouds, careless alike of sunshine or of storm, each in the windowless palace of rest. Earth may run red with other wars they are at peace. In the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict, they found the serenity of death. I have one sentiment for soldiers living and dead cheers for the living and tears for the dead. --Robert Green Ingersoll (18331899) American politician and orator know as "The Great Agnostic." From an Address Delivered at the Soldiers' Reunion at Indianapolis, Ind. [21 September 1876]. Heroism, the Caucasian mountaineers say, is endurance for one moment more. --George Kennan (18451924) American explorer and author. Letter to Henry Munroe Rogers [25 July 1921]. [When asked how he became a war hero:] It was involuntary. They sank my boat. --John Fitzgerald Kennedy (19171963) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19611963]. In Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. _A Thousand Days_ [1965]. - Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance. --Franηois de La Rochefoucauld (16131680) French classical author. _Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims_ [1678] As an example consider what was arguably the most famous home run in the history of baseball. While every serious fan remembers Bill Mazeroski, few can recall what Hal Smith did the inning before: Letter to the Editor "Hal Smith's Home Run" October 17, 2006 _The Wall Street Journal_ Reader Neil Houston isn't totally accurate in his memory of the Pittsburgh Pirates' home runs in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series ("A Big Hit of Yesteryear in Game 7 of 2001 Series," Letters, Oct. 12). He has Mazeroski's homer exactly right, but not Hal Smith's. In the last half of the eighth inning, the Yankees led 7-6. The Pirates had already scored twice, there were two outs and two men on base. Mr. Smith's home run scored three runs, not two, and put the Pirates ahead 9-7. The Yankees tied the game in the ninth, thus setting the stage for Mr. Mazeroski. Hal Smith, who comes to Bradenton for Pirates events occasionally, has said, "I was just not meant to be a hero." Robert McFarlin Longboat Key, Fla. - Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. --Alphonse de Lamartine (17901869) French poet, novelist, and statesman. Quoted in Maturin M. Ballou _Notable Thoughts about Women_, p. 250 [1882]. [Of Abraham Lincoln:] It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man is tested. --James Russell Lowell (18191891) American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat. _The North American Review_ [January 1864] See the conquering hero comes! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums! --Thomas Morell (17031784) English librettist. "Judas Maccabeus" [1747] Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows. --Charles Reade (18141884) English novelist and playwright. _The Cloister and the Hearth_ [1861] We don't have to turn to our history books for heroes. They're all around us. ... Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her, that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. State of the Union Address [26 January 1982] When you talk to young girls these days about their role models, very few mention a chemist like Madame Curie, or an astrophysicist and astronaut like Sally Ride, or a zoologist like Jane Goodall. Instead, they look to someone like Madonna, whose inspiring achievement in life is to parade around in her underwear while proclaiming herself to be a "material girl." *And people wonder why the country's in trouble.* --Wynetka Ann Reynolds (b. 1937) American zoologist and university administrator. Quoted in Carolyn Warner _The Last Word: A Treasury of Women's Quotes_ [1992]. We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. --attributed to Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (18791935) American humorist and actor. A hero is a man who does what he can. --Romain Rolland (18661944) French dramatist , novelist, essayist, and art historian. _Jean-Christophe_ [10 vols., 1904-1912] In this world I would rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep. --Tipu Sultan [byname Tiger of Mysore] (1749-53?1799) Indian sultan of Mysore who won fame in the wars of the late 18th century in southern India. In Alexander Beatson, _A View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun_ [1800]. - To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero-worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. ... History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero-worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own. --Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (19172007) American historian. "The Decline of Greatness" in _Saturday Evening Post_ [1 November 1958]. - - Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you. --Paul Simon (b. 1941) American singer and songwriter. "Mrs. Robinson" [song from the 1967 film _The Graduate_.] & note: I went over and introduced myself. 'Mr. DiMaggio, I'm Paul Simon. I'm the guy who wrote 'Mrs. Robinson.' He knew. He invited me to sit down. [...] It was still the hippie days and he was wondering whether I was making fun of him. I told him I wasn't making fun of him. I said the song was about heroes, a certain type of hero. --Paul Simon (b. 1941) American singer and songwriter. In Mark Kriegel "DiMaggio Was Perfect Fit For My Song, Simon Says" in _New York Daily News_ [27 November 1998]. - - Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound! Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman! --George Lother, program intro for Superman radio show, first broadcast [12 February 1940] Superman was created in 1934 by Jerry Siegel, a graduate of Glenville HS in Cleveland who had little luck with the girls. The fantasy character was also luckless but only as Clark Kent. Siegel's partner was Joe Shuster, who improved the character with tights, a cape, and a handsome face. They moved to NYC, faced hard times there, so they sold the character to DC Comics for $130. In June, the first Superman comic appeared and the popularity of it was so high that both men realized what a disastrous mistake they had made. Neither of them ever gained a share of Superman's earnings. Siegel, a clerk-typist, died in 1996. Shuster, a messenger, died in 1992. - Who is a hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend. --Talmud (A.D. 1st-6th cent.) Rabbinical writings in Louis I. Newman, comp. _The Talmudic Anthology_ [1945] True courage is not the brutal force Of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve Of virtue and reason. --William Whitehead (17151785) English poet and playwright. Attributed in _The Cynosure: Being Select Passages from the Most Distinguished Writers_ [William Pickering, London, 1837]. ----- paladin [PAL-uh-din], noun: 1. A knight-errant; a distinguished champion of a medieval king or prince; as, the paladins of Charlemagne. 2. A champion of a cause.  ;void(0)) HIDING OUT . . A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. --Fred Allen [John Florence Sullivan] (18941956) American humorist. Quoted in James B. Simpson _Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56_ [1957]. A man can hide all things excepting twain That he is drunk, and that he is in love. --Antiphanes (fl. early 4th cent. B.C.) Greek comic poet. As quoted in _Notes and Queries_ [23 July 1904]. He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food. --Raymond Chandler (18881959) American writer of detective fiction. Quoted in "London Magazine" [1972]. Danger if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce it by half. Never run away from anything. Never! --Winston Churchill (18711947) American novelist. Quoted in Sidney Greenberg _A Treasury of the Art of Living _ [1963]. Age is like love, it cannot be hid. --Thomas Dekker (c. 15721632) English dramatist and writter of prose pamphlets of London life. _The Pleasant Comedy of Old Fortunatus_ [c. 1598] Tar-baby ain't sayin' nuthin', en Brer Fox, he lay low. --Joel Chandler Harris (18481908) American writer. _Uncle Remus and His Legends of the Old Plantation_ [1881] "The Wonderful Tar-Baby Story" You can't get away from yourself by going to a booze-bazaar. --Elbert Hubbard (18591915) American editor, publisher, and author who died in the sinking of the "Lusitania." _The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams_ [1923] Reporter: [Billy] Conn is going to use plenty [of] footwork, and do lots of running. Louis: He can run but he can't hide. --Joe Louis [Joseph Louis Barrow aka The Brown Bomber] (19141981) American boxer and heavyweight champion [19371949]. He retired undefeated. _My Life Story_ [1947] Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (18801956) American journalist and literary critic. _A Book of Burlesques_ [1916] The best armor is to keep out of range. --Italian Proverb ----- abscond [ab-SKOND], intransitive verb: To depart secretly; to steal away and hide oneself -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid arrest or prosecution. absquatulate [ab-skwoch-uh-leyt], verb: To flee; abscond. hermitage [HUHR-muh-tij], noun: 1. The habitation of a hermit or group of hermits. 2. A monastery or abbey. 3. A secluded residence; a retreat; a hideaway. sanctum [SANK-tum], noun; plural sanctums or sancta:: 1. A sacred place. 2. A place of retreat where one is free from intrusion. skulk [SKUHLK], intransitive verb: 1. To hide, or get out of the way, in a sneaking manner; to lurk. 2. To move about in a stealthy way. 3. To avoid responsibilities and duties. . . see: "DRUGS" see: "SIXTIES (THE)" see: "TIME" for other related links see: "LIFESTYLE" for other related links There was talk in those days that the scraped interiors of banana skins, dried and smoked, would get you high: "Mellow Yellow," in the vernacular and the Donovan song immortalizing it. Just before the Chicago Be-In, I joked about organizing a group to pass out leaflets saying that "The Bananas You Smoke Were Picked by Men Earning So-Many Cents a Day and Whose Land Was Taken Away by United Fruit." --Todd Gitlin (b. 1943) American political writer and professor of journalism. _The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage_ [1987], "Everybody Get Together" - [Of Woodstock:] All these hippies wandering about thinking the world was going to be different from that day on. As a cynical English arsehole, I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them, trying to make them realize that nothing had changed and nothing was going to change. Not only that, what they thought was an alternative society was basically a field full of six-foot-deep mud laced with LSD. If that was the world they wanted to live in, then f**k the lot of them. --Pete Townshend (b. 1945) British rock musician and songwriter. In Geoffrey Giuliano _Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend_ [1996]. When you look back at the flower-power era, it all looks daft. --Pete Townshend (b. 1945) British rock musician and songwriter. Quoted in Mike Evans & Paul Kingsbury _Woodstock: Three Days That Rocked the World_ [2009].  HIPPOS . . see: "ANIMALS" for related links "Hippo Encore" by Flanders & Swann Musical duo who performed comic and satirical songs. --Michael Flanders (19221975) British actor and singer & Donald Swann (19231994) British composer and linguist. The amorous Hippopotamus, whose love song we know, Is now married and father of ten. He murmers, "God rotamus!" as he watches them grow, And he longs to be single again. He'll gambol no more on the banks of the Nile Which Nasser is flooding next Spring. With hippopotamas in silken pajamas No more will he teach them to sing: Mud! Mud! Glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud. ;void(0)) HIROSHIMA . . see: "ATOM BOMB" see: "TRUMAN" see: "WAR & PEACE" see: "WORLD WAR II" - Some argue that the U.S. could have demonstrated the bomb on an uninhabited island, or could have encouraged surrender by promising that Japan could keep its emperor. Yes, perhaps, and we should have tried. We could also have waited longer before dropping the second bomb, on Nagasaki. But, sadly, the record suggests that restraint would not have worked. The Japanese military ferociously resisted surrender even after two atomic bombings on major cities, even after Soviet entry into the war, even when it expected another atomic bomb on Tokyo. [...] It feels unseemly to defend the vaporizing of two cities, events that are regarded in some quarters as among the most monstrous acts of the 20th century. But we owe it to history to appreciate that the greatest tragedy of Hiroshima was not that so many people were incinerated in an instant, but that in a complex and brutal world, the alternatives were worse. --Nicholas Kristof (b. 1959) American journalist & author. "Blood On Our Hands?" in _New York Times_ [5 August 2005]. - - Trumans supporters countered that, in fact, a blockade and negotiations had not forced the Japanese generals to surrender unconditionally. In their view, a million American casualties and countless Japanese dead were adverted by not storming the Japanese mainland over the next year in the planned two-pronged assault on the mainland, dubbed Operation Coronet and Olympic. For the immediate future there were only two bombs available. Planners thought that using one for demonstration purposes (assuming that it would have worked) might have left the Americans without enough of the new arsenal to shock and awe the Japanese government should it have ridden out the first attack and then become emboldened by a hiatus, and our inability to follow up the attacks. As it was, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, General Tojos followers capitulated only through the intervention of the emperor. And it was not altogether clear even then that Japanese fanatics would not attack the Americans as they steamed into Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremonies. These are the debates that matured in the relative peace of the postwar era. But in August 1945 most Americans had a much different take on Hiroshima, a decision that cannot be fathomed without appreciation of the recently concluded Okinawa campaign (April 1 July 2) that had cost 50,000 American casualties and 200,000 Japanese and Okinawa dead. Okinawa saw the worst losses in the history of the U.S. Navy. Over 300 ships were damaged, more than 30 sunk, as about 5,000 sailors perished under a barrage of some 2,000 Kamikaze attacks. And it was believed at least 10,000 more suicide planes were waiting on Kyushu and Honshu. Those who were asked to continue such fighting on the Japanese mainland as we learn from the memoirs of Paul Fussell, William Manchester, and E. B. Sledge were relieved at the idea of encountering a shell-shocked defeated enemy rather than a defiant Japanese nation in arms. [...] Hiroshima, then, was not the worst single-day loss of life in military history. The Tokyo fire raid on the night of March 9/10, five months earlier, was far worse, incinerating somewhere around 150,000 civilians, and burning out over 15 acres of the downtown. Indeed, Little Boy, the initial nuclear device that was dropped 60 years ago, was understood as the continuance of that policy of unrestricted bombing its morality already decided by the ongoing attacks on the German and Japanese cities begun at least three years earlier. Americans of the time hardly thought the Japanese populace to be entirely innocent. The Imperial Japanese army routinely butchered civilians abroad some 10-15 million Chinese were eventually to perish throughout the Pacific from the Philippines to Korea and Manchuria. Even by August 1945, the Japanese army was killing thousands of Asians each month. When earlier high-level bombing attacks with traditional explosives failed to cut off the fuel for this murderous military industries were increasingly dispersed in smaller shops throughout civilian centers Curtis LeMay unleashed napalm on the Japanese cities and eventually may have incinerated 500,000. In some sense, Hiroshima and Nagasaki not only helped to cut short the week-long Soviet invasion of Japanese-held Manchuria (80,000 Japanese soldiers killed, over 8,000 Russian dead), but an even more ambitious incendiary campaign planned by Gen. Curtis LeMay. With the far shorter missions possible from planned new bases in Okinawa and his fleet vastly augmented by more B-29s and the transference from Europe of thousands of idle B-17s and B-24, the mad bomber LeMay envisioned burning down the entire urban and industrial landscape of Japan. His opposition to Hiroshima was more likely on grounds that his own fleet of bombers could have achieved the same result in a few more weeks anyway. --Victor Davis Hanson (b. 1953) American military historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. "60 Years Later" in _National Review_ [5 August 2005]. - - There's no doubt the atomic bomb wound up saving lives American, Japanese, and maybe millions in the lands the latter occupied. The more interesting question is to what degree it enabled the Japan we know today. They were a fearsome enemy, and had no time for decadent concepts such as magnanimity in victory. If you want the big picture, the Japanese occupation of China left 15 million Chinese dead. If you want the small picture, consider Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. It fell to the Japanese shortly after Pearl Harbor, when the 22 British watchkeepers surrendered to vastly superior forces. The following year, the Japanese took their British prisoners, tied them to trees, decapitated them, and burned their bodies in a pit. You won't find that in the Geneva Conventions. The Japs fought a filthy war, but a mere six decades later and America, Britain and Japan sit side by side at G7 meetings, the US and Canada apologize unceasingly for the wartime internment of Japanese civilians, and an historically authentic vernacular expression such as "the Japs fought a filthy war" is now so distasteful that use of it inevitably attracts noisy complaints about offensively racist characterizations. The old militarist culture of kamikaze fanatics and occupation regimes that routinely tortured and beheaded and even ate their prisoners is dead as dead can be. Would that have happened without Hiroshima and Nagasaki, or the earlier non-nuclear raids? --Mark Steyn (b. 1959) Canadian journalist. "The etiquette of modern warfare" in _The Jerusalem Post_ [3 August 2005]. - Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East. --Harry S. Truman (18841972) American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [19451953]. First announcement of the atomic bomb [6 August 1945]. - "Hiroshima" Editorial in "The Wall Street Journal" August 5, 2005 Today or August 6 in Japan is the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed outright an estimated 80,000 Japanese and hastened World War II to its conclusion on August 15. Those of us who belong to the postwar generations tend to regard the occasion as a somber, even shameful, one. But that's not how the generation of Americans who actually fought the war saw it. And if we're going to reflect seriously about the bomb, we ought first to think about it as they did. In 1945, Paul Fussell was a 21-year-old second lieutenant who'd spent much of the previous year fighting his way through Europe. At the time of Hiroshima, he was scheduled to participate in the invasion of the Japanese mainland, for which the Truman Administration anticipated casualties of between 200,000 and one million Allied soldiers. No surprise, then, that when news of the bomb reached Lt. Fussell and his men, they had no misgivings about its use: "We learned to our astonishment that we would not be obliged in a few months to rush up the beaches near Tokyo assault-firing while being machine-gunned, mortared, and shelled, and for all the practiced phlegm of our tough facades we broke down and cried with relief and joy. We were going to live." Mr. Fussell was writing about American lives. What about Japanese lives? The Japanese army was expected to fight to the last man, as it had during the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Since the ratio of Japanese to American combat fatalities ran about four to one, a mainland invasion could have resulted in millions of Japanese deaths -- and that's not counting civilians. The March 1945 Tokyo fire raid killed about 100,000; such raids would have intensified had the war dragged on. The collective toll from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings is estimated at between 110,000 and 200,000. * * * Nuclear weapons are often said to pose a unique threat to humanity, and in the wrong hands they do. But when President Truman gave the go-ahead to deploy Fat Man and Little Boy, what those big bombs chiefly represented was salvation: salvation for young Lt. Fussell and all the GIs; salvation for the tens of thousands of Allied POWs the Japanese intended to execute in the event of an invasion; salvation for the grotesquely used Korean "comfort women"; salvation for millions of Asians enslaved by the Japanese. Not least, and despite the terrible irony, the bombings were salvation for Japan, since they prompted Emperor Hirohito to intervene with his bitterly divided government to end the war, thus laying the groundwork for America's beneficent occupation and the country's subsequent prosperity. [ . . . ] Looking back after 60 years, who cannot be grateful that it was Truman who had the bomb, and not Hitler or Tojo or Stalin? And looking forward, who can seriously doubt the need for might always to remain in the hands of right? 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