Beckett, Samuel
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Criticism -- How It Is -- "Imagination Dead Imagine"
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York, Hill and Wang, 1963. pp. 83-85, 134-140
Criticism -- Plays -- Endgame -- Joyce, James
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Criticism -- Novels -- How It Is -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- Murphy -- The
Unnamable -- Watt
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London P. Owen, 1958. pp. 37-40.
Criticism -- Works
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of Mortality." In Modern Drama, Volume 16, 1973. pp. 317-328.
Criticism -- Embers0
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." In
Twentieth Century Literature, Volume 11, No. 4, January 1966, pp. 202-210.
Criticism -- Happy Days
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That Fall." In Modern Drama,
Volume 9, 1966. pp. 324-332.
Criticism -- All That Fall
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London, G. Bell, 1963. pp. 128-139.
Criticism -- Works -- Waiting for Godot
- Barge, Laura. "'Coloured Images' in the 'Black Dark': Samuel Beckett's Later Fiction. In PMLA, Volume 92,
March 1977. pp. 283-284.
Criticism -- First Love, and Other Stories -- "From an Abandoned Work" -- How
It Is -- "Imagination Dead Imagine" -- The Lost Ones -- "Ping" -- Proust
- Bentley, Eric. "The Talent of Samuel Beckett." In New Republic, May 14,
1956. pp. 59-66.
Shelved in Social Sciences Department.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- Bersani, Leo. "No Exit for Beckett." In Partisan Review, Volume 33, Spring 1966. pp. 261-268.
Criticism -- Works
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Review, March 9, 1975. pg. 19.
Criticism -- Mercier and Camier
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989. pp. 197-204.
Criticism -- Works
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Canon. New York : Harcourt Brace, c1994. pp. 493-514.
Criticism -- Shakespeare, William -- Endgame -- Krapp's Last Tape -- Murphy -- Proust -- Waiting for Godot
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Rockaby." In Modern Drama, Volume
25, No. 3, September 1982. pp. 342-348.
Criticism -- Rockaby
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Ones." In
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Criticism -- The Lost Ones
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"In Contemporary
Literature, Volume 21, Spring 1980, pp. 252-266.
Criticism -- "Enough"
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Volume 9, No. 3, December 1966. pp. 292-299.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
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Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
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Criticism -- Works -- Children in Literature
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Boston, Mass. : Twayne Publishers c1988. pp. 246-253.
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Criticism -- Mercier and Camier -- Molloy -- Murphy --
- In Clurman, Harold. The Divine
Pastime. New York, Macmillan, 1974. pp. 63-65, 107-108, 119-124.
Criticism -- Works -- Happy Days -- Krapp's Last Tape -- Waiting for Godot
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Reviews and Essays. New York, Macmillan, 1958. pp. 220-222.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
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York, Macmillan, 1966. pp. 40-43.
Criticism -- Happy Days
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Simone Weil's and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot
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Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
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9, Number 1, May 1961. pp. 319-323.
Criticism -- Endgame
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186-197, 224-233.
Criticism -- Works -- Happy Days -- Waiting for Godot
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Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
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Criticism -- The Castle -- Kafka, Franz -- Watt
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Criticism -- Endgame
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Criticism -- Works -- For To Yet Again -- How It Is -- The Lost Ones --
Malone Dies -- Mercier and Camier -- Murphy -- The Unnamable
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Criticism -- The Unnamable
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Form. San Francisco, Chandler Pub. Co., 1965. pp. 427-439.
Criticism -- Works -- Murphy -- Watt
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Criticism -- Novels -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- Murphy -- Textes pour rien
(Stories and Texts for Nothing) -- The Unnamable
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Criticism -- Watt
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New York, Knopf, 1960. pp. 322-323.
Criticism -- Malone
- Dobree, Bonamy. "Drama in England." In Sewanee Review,
Volume 64, No. 3, Suummer 1956. pp. 470-484.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
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Modern Drama,
Volume 15, 1972. pp. 351-354.
Criticism -- Krapp's Last Tape
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Criticism -- Works
- Easthope, Anthony. "Hamm, Clov, and Dramatic Method in Samuel Beckett's
Endgame."In
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Criticism -- Endgame
- Eastman, Richard M. "Samuel Beckett and Happy Days."
In Modern
Drama, Volume 6, February 1964. pp. 417-424.
Criticism -- Happy Days
- Eastman, Richard M. "The Strategy of Samuel Beckett's Endgame."
In Modern Drama
, Volume 2, No. 1, May 1959. pp. 36-44.
Criticism -- Endgame
- In Ellmann, Richard. a long the river run: Selected
Essays. New York : Knopf, 1989, c1988. pp. 229-238.
Biography
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: Macmillan, c1976. pp. 128-129, 208-209.
Criticism -- Krapp's Last Tape -- Waiting for Godot
- In Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd.
Garden City, N.Y. Anchor Books, 1969. pp. 11-65.
Criticism -- Works -- All That Fall -- Endgame -- Happy Days --
Imagination Dead Imagine -- Krapp's Last Tape -- Molloy -- Waiting for
Godot -- Whoroscope
- Finney, Brian. "A Reading of Beckett's Imagination Dead Imagine."
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Century Literature, Volume 17, April 1971, pp. 65-71.
Criticism -- "Imagination Dead Imagine"
- In Fletcher, John. New Directions in Literature
. London, Calder & Boyars, 1968. pp. 91-95, plus see index.
Criticism -- Works
- Francis, Richard Lee. "Beckett's Metaphysical Tragi-comedy."In Modern Drama, Volume 8, 1965. pp. 259-267.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- Frye, Northrup. "Nightmare Life in Death." In Hudson Review. Volume 13, 1960. pp. 442-449.
Criticism -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- Murphy -- The Unnamable -- Waiting
for Godot
- In Garzilli, Enrico. Circles Without Center: Paths to the Discovery of Self in Modern Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
University Press, 1972. pp. 47-52.
Criticism -- The Unnamable
- In Gassner, John Theatre At The Crossroads.
New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston [1960]. pp. 252-261.
Criticism -- Endgame -- Waiting for Godot
- In George, Kathleen. Rhythm in Drama. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, c1980. See index.
Criticism -- Plays -- Happy Days -- Waiting for Godot
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Criticism -- Works -- Endgame -- Happy Days -- Waiting for Godot
- In Gilman, Richard. The Making of Modern Drama
. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1974]. pp. 234-266.
Criticism -- Plays -- Endgame -- Happy Days -- Krapp's Last Tape --
Waiting for Godot
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Pennsylvania State University Press, 1963. pp. 117-133.
Criticism -- Works -- Endgame -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- Murphy -- The
Unnamable -- Waiting for Godot
- Graver, Lawrence. "Guides to the Ruins." In Partisan Review, Volume 41, No. 4, 1974. pp. 622-625.
Criticism -- The Lost Ones
- In Guicharnaud, Jacques. Modern French Theatre from Giraudoux to Genet. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1967. pp.
230-258, plus see index.
Criticism -- Plays -- Waiting for Godot
- Hampton, Charles C. "Samuel Beckett's Film." In Modern Drama, Volume 11, No. 3, December 1968. pp. 399-305.
Criticism -- Film
- Harvey, Lawrence. "Art and the Existential in En Attendant Godot."
In PMLA, Volume 75, March 1960. pp. 137-145.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- In Hassan, Ihab. The Dismemberment of
Orpheus. New York, Oxford University Press, 1971. pp. 210-246.
Criticism -- Works -- Endgame -- How It Is -- Malone Dies -- Molloy --
Murphy -- The Unnamable -- Waiting for Godot
- In Hayman, Ronald. Theatre and Anti-Theatre. New York : Oxford University Press, 1979. pp. 1-16, 36-47, plus see index.
Criticism -- Works -- Endgame -- Happy Days -- Merceir and Camier -- Proust --
Waiting for Godot
- In Heppenstall, Rayner. The Fourfold Tradition. London, Barrie and Rockliff, 1961. pp. 254-265.
Criticism -- Works
- Hooker, Ward. "Irony and Absurdity in the Avant-Garde Theatre."In
Kenyon Review,
Volume 22, Summer 1960. pp. 436-454.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- Hubert, Renee. "Beckett's Play Between Poetry and Performance."
In Modern
Drama, Volume 9, No. 3, December 1966. pp. 339-346.
Criticism -- Play
- Hutchings, William. "'The Unintelligble Terms of an Incomprehesible
Damnation': Samuel Beckett's The Unnamable, Sheol and St.
Erkenwald." In
Twentieth Century Literature, Volume 27, 1981, pp. 98-111.
Criticism -- The Unnamable
- Iser, Wolfgang. "Beckett's Dramatic Language." In Modern Drama, Volume
9, No. 3, Dec. 1966. pp. 251-259.
Criticism -- Plays
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Modern Drama,
Volume 17, 1974. pp. 179-188.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
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Criticism -- Novels -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- Murphy -- The
Unnamable -- Watt
- Kermode, Frank. "How It Is."In New York Review of
Books, Volume 11, March 19, 1964. pp. 194-211.
Criticism -- How It Is
- In Kermode, Frank. Puzzles and Epiphanies.
New York, Chilmark Press, 1962. pp. 156-161.
Criticism -- Works -- Waiting for Godot
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. New York : Columbia University Press, 1980. See index.
Criticism -- Works -- Waiting for Godot
- Kern, Edith. "Beckett and the Spirit of the Commedia Dell'Arte."In
Modern Drama,
Volume 9, No. 3, December 1966. pp. 260-267.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- In Kott, Jan. Theatre Notebook, 1947-1967. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1968. pp. 241-245.
Criticism -- Happy Days
- Lawley, Paul. "Adoption in Endgame." In Modern Drama
, Volume 31, No. 4. December 1988. pp. 529-535.
Criticism -- Endgame
- Levy, Eric. "Living Without a Life: Disintegration of the
Christian-Humanist Synthesis in Molloy." InStudies in the Novel, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2001, pp. 80-94.
Criticism -- Molloy
- In Lewis, Allan. The Contemporary Theatre.
New York: Knopf, 1956. pp. 261-265.
Criticism -- Plays -- Waiting for Godot
- Liddy, James. "Island Truancies: The Sauntering of Mercier and
Camier. In
Review of Contemporary Fiction, Volume 7, Number 2, 1987. pp. 44-48.
Criticism -- Mercier and Camier
- In Lumley, Frederick New Trends in 20th Century
Drama. New York, Oxford University Press, 1967. pp. 202-208.
Criticism -- Plays -- Happy Days -- Waiting for Godot
- Lyons, Charles R. "Beckett's Endgame: An Anti-Myth of Creation."
In Modern
Drama, Volume 7, September 1964. pp. 204-209.
Criticism -- Endgame
- In Mabley, Edward. Dramatic Construction . Philadelphia, Chilton Book Co., 1972. pp. 314-332.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- McElroy, Joseph. "The Lost Ones." In The New York Times Book Review, October 29, 1972. pp. 4, 20.
Criticism -- The Lost Ones
- In Mailer, Norman. Advertisements for Myself. New York : Putnam, 1959. pp. 320-325.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- In Mauriac, Claude. The New Literature.
New York, G. Braziller, 1959. pp. 75-90.
Criticism -- Works -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- Murphy -- Tales and Texts
for Nothing (Stories and Texts for Nothing) -- The Unnamable -- Waiting
for Godot
- Milalyi, Gabor. "Beckett's Godot and the Myth of Alienation."
In Modern Drama
, Volume 9, No. 3. pp. 277-282.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- Mood, John. "The Personal System: Samuel Beckett's Watt."In
PMLA, Volume
86, No. 2, March 1971. pp. 255-265.
Criticism -- Watt
- In Moore, Harry T. Twentieth Century
French Literature. Vol. 2, Since World War II. Carbondale, Ill.:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1966. pp. 58-73.
Criticism -- Novels -- Plays -- Endgame -- Waiting for Godot
- Morse, J. Mitchell. "The Contemplative Life of Samuel Beckett."In
Hudson Review.
Volume 15, Winter 1962-1963. pp. 512-524.
Criticism -- Works
- In Nadeau, Maurice. The French Novel Since the War. London: Methuen, 1967. pp. 123-126.
Criticism -- Works
- In Nightingale, Benedict. Reader's Guide to 50 Modern British Plays. London : Heinemann ; Totowa, N.J. : Barnes & Noble, 1982. pp. 258-283.
Criticism -- Plays -- "Waiting for Godot" -- "Endgame" -- "Not I"
- In Oates, Joyce Carol. New Heaven, New Earth. New York : Vanguard Press, 1974. pp. 83-96.
Criticism - Novels - Malone Dies - Molloy - The Unnamable
- Oberg, Arthur K. "Krapp's Last Tape and the Proustian Vision."
In Modern Drama, Volume 9, No. 3, December 1966. pp. 333-338.
Criticism -- Krapp's Last Tape
- O'Hara, J.D. "A Writer at the Mercy of Memory." In The New York Times Book Review, November 2, 1980. pp. 7, 45.
Criticism -- Company
- Park, Eric. "Fundamental Sounds: Music in Samuel Beckett's
Murphy and Watt." In Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 21, No. 2, Summer 1975. pp. 157-171.
Criticism -- Murphy -- Watt
- Pearce, Richard. "The Limits of Realism." In College English,
Volume 31, January 1970. pp. 335-343.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- In Plimpton, George, ed. Playwrights at Work. New
York : Modern Library, 2000. pp. 3-22.
Criticism -- Interview -- Act Without Words -- Endgame
- Postlewait, Thomas. "Self-Performing Voices: Mind, Memory and Time in
Beckett's Drama." In Twentieth Century Literature, Volume 24, No. 4, Winter 1978. pp. 473-491.
Criticism -- Plays -- Endgame -- Waiting for Godot
- In Pritchett, V. S. The Living Novel & Later Appreciations. New York, Random House, 1964. pp. 315-320.
Criticism -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- The Unnamable
- Rabinovitz, Rubin. "Style and Obscurity in Samuel Beckett's Early
Fiction." In
Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 20, 1974. pp. 399-406.
Criticism -- Murphy -- Watt
- Read, David. "Beckett's Search for Unseeable and Unmakeable:
Company and Ill Seen Ill Said."In Modern Fiction Studies
, Volume 29, 1983. pp. 111-125.
Criticism -- Company -- Ill Seen Ill Said
- In Rexroth, Kenneth. Bird in the Bush
. New York, New Directions, 1959. pp. 75-85.
Criticism -- Works -- Waiting for Godot
- Rexroth, Kenneth. "The Point is Irrelevance." In The Nation, Volume
182, April 14, 1956. pp. 325-328.
Shelved in Social Sciences Department.
Criticism -- Works
- Ricks, Christopher. "Beckett First and Last." In The New York Review
of Books, Volume 19, December 12, 1972. pp. 42-44.
Criticism -- The Lost Ones
- In Roudiez, Leon S. French Fiction Today.
New Brunswick, N. J., Rutgers University Press, 1972. pp. 81-103.
Criticism -- Novels -- How It Is (Comment c'est) -- Malone Dies --
Molloy -- Murphy -- The Unnamable
- Schechner, Richard. "There's Lots of Time in Godot."In Modern Drama, Volume 9, No. 3, December 1966, pp. 268-276.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- Schoell, Konrad. "The Chain and the Circle: A Structural Comparison
of Waiting for Godot and Endgame. In Modern Drama, Volume
11, No. 1, May 1968. pp. 48-53.
Criticism -- Endgame -- Waiting for Godot
- In Segal, Erich. The Death of
Comedy. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001. pp. 434-452.
Criticism -- Krapp's Last Tape -- Waiting for Godot
- Senneff, Susan Field. "Song and Music in Samuel Beckett's Watt."
In
Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 4, 1964. pp. 137-149.
Criticism -- Watt
- Sheedy, John J. "The Comic Apocalypse of King Hamm." In Modern Drama, Volume
9, No. 3, December 1966. pp. 310-318.
Criticism -- Endgame
- In Sherrell, Richard E. The Human Image: Avant-Garde and Christian. Richmond, John Know Press, 1969. pp. 45-64.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- Smith, Frederik N. "Beckett's Verbal Slapstick." In Modern Fiction Studies
, Volume 29, 1983, pp. 45-55.
Criticism -- Works -- Company -- How It Is -- The Lost Ones -- Molloy --
Murphy -- The Unnamable -- Watt
- Smith, Roch. "Naming the M/inotaur: Beckett's Trilogy and the Failure
of Narrative." In Modern Fiction Studies
, Volume 29, 1983. pp. 73-80.
Criticism -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- The Unnamable
- Stein, Karen. "Metaphysical Silence in Absurd Drama." In
Modern Drama,
Volume 13, February 1971, pp. 423-431.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- Steinberg, S.C. "The External and the Internal in Murphy."In
Twentieth Century
Literature, Volume 18, No. 2, April 1972. pp. 93-110.
Criticism -- Murphy
- Steiner, George. "Of Nuance and Spirit." In The New Yorker,
Volume 44, April 27, 1968. pp. 164-174.
Criticism -- Works
- In Stevenson, Randall. The British Novel Since the Thirties. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1986. pp.
196-200.
Criticism -- Novels -- Malone Dies -- Molloy -- Murphy -- The Unnamable
- In Styan, J. L. The Dark Comedy.
Cambridge, Eng., University Press, 1962. pp. 226-231, plus see index.
Criticism -- Plays -- All That Fall -- Waiting for Godot
- Swanson, Eleanor. "Samuel Beckett's Watt: A Coming and a
Going." In
Modern Fiction Studies, Volume 17, No. 2, Summer 1971. pp. 264-268.
Criticism -- Watt
- "They Also Serve." In Times Literary Supplement, No. 2185, February 10, 1956. pg. 84.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- Thomas, Ronald. "In the Company of Strangers: Absent Voices in
Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Beckett's Company."
In Modern
Fiction Studies, Volume 32, 1986. pp. 164-172
Criticism -- Stevenson, Robert Louis -- Company -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- Trousdale, Marion. "Dramatic Form: The Example of Godot."In
Modern Drama,
Volume 11, No. 1, May 1968. pp. 1-9.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- In Tynan, Kenneth. Curtains. New York,
Atheneum, 1961. pp. 101-103.
Criticism -- Waiting for Godot
- In Tynan, Kenneth. Tynan Left and Right.
New York, Atheneum, 1967. pp. 105-106.
Criticism -- Happy Days
- In Walcutt, Charles Child. Man's Changing Mask. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1966. pp. 339-346.
Criticism -- Malone Dies
- Wood, Michael. "Comedy of Ignorance." In New York Review of
Books, Volume 28, No. 7, April 30, 1081. pp. 49-52.
Criticism -- Works -- "All Strange Away" -- Company -- "Ohio Impromptu" -- "A
Piece of Monologue" -- Rockaby
- Zilliacus, Clas. "Samuel Beckett's Embers: A Matter of
Fundamental Sounds." In Modern Drama, Volume 13, September 1970. pp. 216-225.
Criticism -- Embers
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