May 2001 - Sinister - missprint.org

Sinister: many things of great interest
by Hugo Shannon 20 May '01

20 May '01

hello all! what a day, i think i've finally expeienced 'high society' in my adopted hometown. having recently read american psycho and bonfire of the vanities i was briefly infatuated with the yuppie lifestyle. ( I could wear those suits, eat those meals, meet those models...) however, i was disturbed when i found myself (unwittingly) in the place of sleazebag english journalist from bonfires, being presented with several drinks just because i was sitting at the same table as some peple who knew some people who knew me. i did drink the drinks. and i'm talking about nottingham england in case anyone thinks i'm alluding to much photographed sites of world class glamour. i've always known there were people who earned good salaries here, i just never thought i'd go to the sort of place they did. (the social - where sometimes indie bands play !) the drinks i drank cost more than those i bought (for the people i did know who bought me drinks - the fair and reasonable way of spending a nite on the town). this has left me feeling bad. i didn't want the drinks i was given (not that much anyway), and i couldn't possibly repay everyone who indulged me. all i can conclude is that some people are overpaid. aside from all that, a lot of people have been talking about dreams lately. some people have sounded quite depressed too. its impossible to say this without sounding cliched or stupid, but things ALWAYS get better. my considered advice - bearing in mind i'm a long way off being grrey haired - is not to think of pirates or witches (particulatly witches, or even, forgive me for entertaining the notion - pirate-witches) when trying to sleep. this should result in less nitemares. happy dreams can come true too. they often do. my favourite ever dream involved me and some friends rescuing a unicorn from a shelter in the woods made of blue spongy stuff. i was less than 10 years old. i'm pretty sure i'd not seen ridley scotts's legend at this point in my life. and so, ** belle and sebastian content** hearing judy and the dream of horses for the first time struck a chord. more stuff: i've got tickets for the albert hall, is there a definite pre gig picnic - after gig club nite going on? i could stay at my brothers flat but it would be far more rock and roll to go out and get the first train home -WITHOUT HAVING SLEPT!! i'm a little tipsy writing this, and am sure i've broken the 15 min rule. so i'll continue. 80's films have been discussed. i'm confused betweeen pretty in pink and some kind of wonderful. is one a remake of the other? ferris beuller has a cabaret voltaire poster in his room. i think the film would have been infinitely more satisfying if master ferris had got his comeuppance(sp). the best 80's film is labyrinth. this e-mails getting uncontrollably long, so i'll end with an apology for my mock turtles/pwei pedantry. perhaps there are two songs by the title can u dig it? (i just don't know the mock turtles one. i probably should - i'm sure it would make me a less uptight person) love and sweet dreams. hugo. _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: I love the cinema you love!
by Katia913＠aol.com 20 May '01

20 May '01

I do, its the truth.. This is my first post, as I was just given the right to do so, so bear with me, or else don't I don't care. I'm Kate, and I'm from Chicago, which as you all know is in the US and I am therefor dot attending any of the great shows with B&S that you will. And I'm real jealous, but hey what can I do. As for all of your exams I have them too, but mine start real late on the 30th. Frustration overcomes me... Um so all of you know, I'm a younger person than the most of you, I'm still in highschool, and got into b&S when sinister came out...Its still my favorite. I play them here on my dj job, its not one of mention, just a local station but because of it I've gotten a few into them and others I'll end this soon but I was real shocked to hear, that in my first week of getting this lovely thing that you ALL enjoy Hefner as much as I. If anyone wants, please send me a list of your fav artists, Id love to broaden my taste. Kate from Chicago. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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by rask** 19 May '01

19 May '01

hello dear sinister people it has been six months since my last confession/post. But I notice that people are still talking about pynchon, which cant be bad. Although when I read pynchon, it always reminds me of joyce. And proust, well didn't it take him thirty pages to describe someone turning over in bed. I think for that alone he should be lauded in what Joyce satirised, aeolus. Anyway, i have a question, a while back there was a post by somebody who 'stole' a book of somebody's writings and posted on sinister a bit of a short story. For some reason it stuck in my mind, I can't even fully remember what it was about, except that it was set in a cafe. I cant find it on the archive and thought maybe the writer or usurper of intellectual property might email it to me or at least guide me to it on the archive. It actually occurred to me at the time that the person that posted it had written it and was just too shy to admit it. Either way it would be most appreciated. Richard Visit http://www.oceanfree.net to get your free e-mail account and use our unique Irish Internet directory +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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by rask** 19 May '01

19 May '01

Visit http://www.oceanfree.net to get your free e-mail account and use our unique Irish Internet directory +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: ne mosquitoes pass
by steven kado 19 May '01

19 May '01

So, first off... i'm slightly miffed that no one from our (perhaps formerly) large-ish finnish contingent has bothered to fill me in on whats what in helsinki. what gives? wither Jarkko? wither Ulla? where should i stay? where can i eat? is there any gallery action that is 'un missable?' is the public transportation confusing? however, despite finnish disappointment i would like to say a big thankyou to greece for producing RETSINA MALAMATINA!!! which, due to being cheap and coming in half-litre bottles, is now my favourite thing IN THE WORLD!!! its good in a way that makes later EC irrelevant. In fact, after 2 bottles of it i totally forget about the last 5 years of EC. and no, i don't mean electric circus. so i cried while listening to the last joan of arc ep. hurray! R O B Y N F A D D E N ! ! ! ! ! ! yes!!! it was about time she posted, i was going to have to introduce the subject of shoes myself... but robyn, what became of the white campers you saw that day, those spectral shoozles...do they haunt you? or have you moved on to others? will the craving for shoes ever be sated? you realize that if you go to japan what once was merely the desire for nice shoes will morph into an insane quest to replace your entire wardrobe. my friend rob picked up this marvelous fake army-surplus jacket that says 'rare electro rock' in pink gothic letters on the back while in japan. my drooling only recently subsisted. i was looking at shoes myself and i was wondering why none of the fake campers were able to replicate that mysetrious and perfect roundness of the toe that the real deal so easily manage? don't the manufacturers of these camper-knock-offs see that it is precicely the shape and not the intricate stitching of the leather and sneaker-like lacing that contains the camper shoe's mystical allure? what i'm driving at is that i badly want a pair of campers but can't afford them and none of the knock offs will do so i cower and cry. what i, however, never wanted; at all ever, and in fact need precicely as much as i need tuberculosis, is a collaborative recording of various and sundry 'pop hits' from a too thoroughly nostalgised period performed with ersatz errudition by a talented but sometimes dull opera singer with help from a once great new wave pop song writer (who is now thoroughly washed up and operates exclusively in the adult contemporary 'genre'). i just thought i would make that clear. campers yes, A-S vM + EC no. also robyn fadden mentioned that she, like ruvi like others found kings of convenience boring, well i would mention my own contribution to the subject on march thirty-first when i said: >forget kings of convenience they might be popular but they'll never be >interesting, but then sarah clarke said this >Just the other day >I attached a Kings of Convienience album to a pneumatic drill, and >terrorised the streets of the Brixton with it. When I dropped it, I drilled >a hole right through to the centre of the earth, and scared a few dwarfs >down there, who were playing Magic Cards! A ground breaking album indeed, ho >ho ho! and now i am madly in love with her. i love how it also perfectly involves nerd-baiting too! rah! take that computer science! but if that wasn't good enough: >Yay, 40 minutes till I can go home and play my BASS. Bass is the best >instrument of any. for real! my totally ficticious ardour increases exponentially at the introduction of such an instrument! i'm seized by the sudden desire to get on my bike, pedal accross the ocean and sweep her away to 'the casbah' and get busy putting the ass back in bass...whew! but then, i'm sure she wouldn't have me, what with my mind like a sewer and my heart like a fridge...no, instead of lewd, low-end imaginative scenarios i think sarah, robyn and i should form some kind of sinister bass conspiracy. the streets would rumble with the sound of our bassy approach. another reason why bass is great is because you can look cooler doing it than any other instrument, it gives the perfect aire of detatchment to even the most invloved motion. my bass is a fake paul mccartney bass. it is light and tiny. youn suggested that perhaps EC had seized control of the power grid, or had in some how insinuated himself into what germans call kraftwerk, which can only be wishful speculation since the thought of him controlling vast patterns of lighting in buildings is infinitely preferable to the thought of him doing another album, or continuing to wear that aweful little hat. really, you'd think cait would make him get a different one, it makes him look like some sort of little pet-creature dressed up in human clothes and photographed in "endearing" poses for use in tacky hallmark calendars. ree-volting. i guess i'm out of steam. which is good, because humans should usually not have any steam in them in the first place, all the water in the human body (with the exception of some allowable vapour in the lungs) should be in its liquid form....but if one happens to be an antique, steam-driven automaton then it is not good for the steam to escape because then it ruins your carefully constructed veneer of life-like-ness, and also probably reduces the air pressure that your pneumatic works need to opperate. s t e v e nn +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. 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Sinister: TICKETS SCOTLAND ARE ARSEHOLES
by Chris shaft 19 May '01

19 May '01

Yeah, that's right, you heard me. total cocks, excuse my language. fannybaws. bawsacs. the shitbags have arsed up my order for tickets, so I can no longer go to the saturday gig, and I've still not got my friday tickets..... if I ever get them..... I can only rely on having entered a competition for saturday tickets... (please.....) that's what happens when you rely on an aberdonian cockface in virgin records..... can't wait to get back home.... sorry if any youngsters are reading this, my languge is rather disgracefull...... I'm helping to organise a meetup on the saturday still tho'..... ally will probably post final details of it...... anyway, I still can't wait.... included in the list of poss cover versions were last child by aerosmith girl/boy by aphex twin we built this city by starship my favourite dress by the wedding present improve workshop mimeshow gobshite by half man half biscuit dropkick me jesus through the goal posts of life by delbert mccintlock anyway, cu s all soon... ugs _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: retrato em branco e preto
by Gordon 19 May '01

19 May '01

do people actually read ghormenghast? isn't it, well, we struggled with the hobbit and made a start on the lord of the rings and all this way of describing the world in terms of castles became a little boring? I haven't read Pynchon or Proust Either. Proust Either gives gardening advice on my own imaginary TV channel. I did read Coover's Pinocchio in Venice, which took me about a year and a half, in which I am delighted to discover about the nocturnal habits of dogs and the renaissance in general Maybe my post is too short Today I do less well than other days.. this is life affectionately yours +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Needle in the Groove
by James Gilmer 19 May '01

19 May '01

I started my Sinister journey the first time around with a reference to Jeff Noon in the subject line, might as well start my second round with Sinister with another. In case you don't know, Jeff Noon is a writer, he's a very good writer that writes about drugs that are feathers and dreams that are worlds. He's not very twee, but he's very smooth and smart and hip. I doubt anyone will remember me from my first go, except perhaps the llacivious llavacious llovely Llaura Llew. You all know her, the one in the corner with the halo and air of southern gentry. If Rachel Tucker's about she might remember me, because she identified my Jeff Noon quote the last time around and told me to read Gormenghast, which I did and for which I'm in her debt. So cheers to Rachel if she's still hanging about the Sinister playground. As I said, Llaura Llew needs no introduction, known world wide for her charm and excellent mix tapes and packages of goodies sent through the post. In some places she's considered an urban legend, this shadowy figure making mix tapes and christmas stockings. Reports of Llew sightings are few and far between, the most evidence we have of her existence are the bits of electronic wisdom she sends us off and on. "Welcome back to *THE* Jimmy G! Yes, he hasn't posted yet but I know from secret sources that he has rejoined the list. Ya know, he *is* the reason I even discovered my Dorothy Parker when he said to me, "Laura, it's not as if I expect you to be Dorothy Parker."" See, she's dubbed me THE Jimmy G, now do you see the reason for the praise I send her way? Of course, I'm also trying to make up of some quiet time when I was out of contact and was unable to bask in her southern glow. She can even out Dorothy Parker Dorothy Parker sometimes. I blame it on medical reasons, whiplash to be exact. It wasn't my fault I didn't write, that sudden, sharp turn to the right the country took round about November 7th nearly broke my neck. I feel like a little kid scuffing my foot in the dirt and watching everyone take the wrong path, while I'm still looking forward under a sign that says; "Next Century - Evolution Ahead". Ah well, Llew has forgiven me my trespasses like the angelic girl she is, she's far too kind to this poor heathen boy. We're like a bad buddy cop movie as done by Dante. The foul-mouthed unbalanced heathen boy and the angelic by-the-book angel girl. Why she puts up with me I'll never know. She says it's the eyebrows, I knew she was only after my body. A fair warning, beware the llove dungeon. I think that's enough for now, except to say that I'll be in the UK this summer from june 3rd to july 12th, I do hope american heathen boys are allowed at the picnics, because I'd rather like to attend. Cheers Be sinister children... Jim "I haven't feel geeky or dumb since I was 17. I don't feel marginalised or outmoded and neither should anyone else in this thriving, multiplex society. When will successful, creative, intelligent people stop thinking of themselves as childlike outsiders and start engaging with the real high-stakes world? Wake up fanboy, wake up fangirl. Don't you want to rule the world?" - Grant Morrison +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: favorite VU song titles
by Youn J. Noh 18 May '01

18 May '01

First, SORRY!!! Alex says Stroke It Noel Denton says 'I think I shall have to stroke you,' he said at last, as if there were no help for it, no other way out. The voice was changed again; it was a child's voice now, soft and dreamy, with that ruthless concentration that acknowledges no other interest in the world. Very gently he lowered his hand to the sleeve of her jersey. Mary could feel his hard palm grating over the wool; sometimes a strand caught in a piece of rough skin and was snapped. Her teeth were set on edge, but she could not move; she sat becalmed waiting for the next stroke. Jim began to run his fingers over her hair, starting at the top of her head, descending each wave and curl until he reached the nape of the neck. There he seemed to love the projecting bone with the pads of his fingers; he smoothed it and touched it gingerly. It was as if he were playing with a very pretty cat which yet held some hint of malice in its twitching tail. Sam says The dummmies in the windows of different shops appeared to be of totally different, how shall we say, umm... proportions. Some have bigger chests, some have tighter waists, some have broader shoulders etc. It's very bizarre. Stephen says naught but Edward says solemnly myselves ask "life, the question how do i drink dream smile and how do i prefer this face to another and why do i weep eat sleep---what does the whole intend" William says Being so caught up, So mastered by the brute blood of the air, Did she put on his knowledge with his power Before the indifferent beak could let her drop? Ferdinand says 00100111 01001100 01101111 01110110 01100101 01100000 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 00101110 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Sinister: Stop!
by Sam Walton 18 May '01

18 May '01

...carry on! Anyway, my British chums, I thought I'd write and give my two-penneth on recent things. As for the Mark & Lard thing, yes they were great, then they were alright on the breakfast show, and now they're great in parts in the afternoon, but nothing will beat Simon Armitage, "fancy a brew", them playing TSTIAI and my mate getting his name read out on it when he was 14. Yes, I was **that** cool - I had a mate whose name the boy Lard had **said**. So yeah, they were brilliant. But now they're not. Oh well. I was walking down Oxford Street by myself on Monday evening, about to meet a certain listee when I noticed a very stange thing. The dummmies in the windows of different shops appeared to be of totally different, how shall we say, umm... proportions. Some have bigger chests, some have tighter waists, some have broader shoulders etc. It's very bizarre. I'd like to think that it's something to do with the type of person the shop is trying to appeal to, but it's probably just luck whether they get a B-cup dummy or a C-cup one. Has anybody else noticed this or am I just imagining this? Onto Mr Carter's point about mediocrity or whatever. Please, please, **PERRRLEEEASE* don't sully my inbox with this kind of crap, and I quote: "I'd argue that in a lot of ways [Kings Of Convenienve's album] is ground breaking". Sorry Pete, it's not. It's beautiful, sleepy, rather wonderful harmony-tinged, startlingly good Norwegian folk-pop, played with two instruments which have been around for centuries, and using simple but effective lyrics/harmonies about troubled relationships of whatever sort. See here: http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=groundbreaking Groundbreaking, it ain't. I take the man's points, but there are limits to which you can stretch such things. Then again, everybody's entitled to their own opinions, not that many people them (their **own** opinions, that is). Anyway, does anybody else think it a bit strange to hear 'Pyramid Song' played on daytime Radio 1? I certainly do. Chris Moyles played it on Wednesday, and it was very bizzare. The Radio 1 jingle comes in, then the song, and then SClub7. Now I'm not complaining, because that's two great songs in a row, but if Radio 1 are playing this, shouldn't they be playing more hautingly captivating angst with no time signatures? It's just strange hearing this wonderfully anti-radio, desolate song flanked on both sides by p!o!p. Perhaps it's just me again. Oh well... I think I've said enough again. I volunteered to be Picnic Mummy for the Albert Hall thing, but the number of responses I've had could be counted on the finger of one stump, so I'll stop shouting... Right then, a big biggedy-biggedy-bong in a twee Scottish style... love s.X _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister(a)missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo(a)missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "peculiarly deranged fanbase" +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "frighteningly named Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +-+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +-+ +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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