I’m desperate to tell someone about this book!
It’s a coversion story. How can you go from worshiping Isis, Osiris, Jupiter and Zeus- Egyptian, Greek and Roman pantheon of gods, to Faith in the one true Father and his Son- Christus?
‘What think you of this new sect, which I am told has even a few proselytes in Pompeii, these followers of the Hebrew God — Christus?’
Isis Unveiled. She is the Holy Spirit. She is the Virgin Mary, she is the primary, perfect conduit, THE ORIGINAL PORTAL- THE WOMB-MAN.
FATHER, SON, and HOLY SPIRIT
WISDOM, STRENGTH, and BEAUTY
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Edward Bulwer Lytton makes the destruction of Pompeii a real pleasure to witness.
You must go through HELL to get to HEAVEN. The burnig scoria raining down from the flaming maw of mount Vesuvius. The perfect ROMAN avenue to the One True Faith. The beautiful city burns. The Aediles die in their bunkers with their gold. Glaucus, Ione, and Nydia flee to the water.
Sometimes the blaze lingered over the iron-grey heaps of scoria, covered in part with ancient mosses or stunted trees, as if seeking in vain for some gentler product of earth, more worthy of its ire; and sometimes leaving the whole of that part of the scene in darkness, the lightning, broad and sheeted, hung redly over the ocean, tossing far below, until its waves seemed glowing into fire; and so intense was the blaze, that it brought vividly into view even the sharp outline of the more distant windings of the bay, from the eternal Misenum, with its lofty brow, to the beautiful Sorrentum and the giant hills behind.
What is love?
LOVE IS SACRIFICE – plain and simple.
Yet this was the last night for the gay Pompeii! the colony of the hoar Chaldean! the fabled city of Hercules! the delight of the voluptuous Roman! Age after age had rolled, indestructive, unheeded, over its head; and now the last ray quivered on the dial-plate of its doom!
List of characters:
Glaucus: He’s rich, young, and handsome. The women love the Athenian. You will like him too. Although, you’re not sure why.
Ione: She’s the Lily of the Valley, the Virgin Mary, Isis Unveiled- her purity and pious perfection like dew drops on a budding flower. Grace in every movement. I was smitten with her- as was Glaucus. She loves Glaucus. But yet… what is love?
Nydia: The young blind slave. She loves Glaucus. Glaucus plays dumb. He purchases Nydia, gives her fine jewelry, and places her in his garden to make garlands of fine flowers. I love Nydia more than Ione.
Arbaces: The Egyptian Mystic. Old and wise in the Chaldean magicks. His oracles are always on point. Great tripods of smoking incense and crystal balls adorn his cavernous Pompeian mansion. He holds the most sensual parties. The licentious Sybarite. He must have Ione. Am I Arbaces or Glaucus?
Apaecides: Ione’s brother. He’s taken with the priesthood. Easily overcome by the Epicurean. He’s the convert, the lamb, the walking dead.
Julia: Rich daughter of Diomed. She doesn’t love Glaucus, but cannot allow her rival, Ione, to wed the finest man in town. She must consult the witch.
Orinthus: The Nazarene. A nascent Christian. He’s a zealot- He’s got ZEAL for the new Faith. Edward Bulwer Lytton makes it clear that the Christian Faith was born from Zeal. The zealots brought the Faith forward- And now all GMO Christians are making a living sacrifice to the CDC.
GOD BLESS.
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Delphi Complete Works of Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Book last read: 2026-07-17 12:08:11
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Notes: A vain conceited man. A dandy.
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Notes: Athenia sculpter. ROMAN copy
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Notes: Covid face mask doctors
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Highlight: but for my part I find every woman a witch; and at Pompeii, by Venus! the very air seems to have taken a love-philtre, so handsome does every face without a beard seem in my eyes.’
Notes: Hehe
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Notes: Nothing new under the sun. Athenian is Greek is Roman is the West is America
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Notes: Ask circe
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Notes: Ask Circe
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Notes: Hehe
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Highlight: What think you of this new sect, which I am told has even a few proselytes in Pompeii, these followers of the Hebrew God — Christus?’
Notes: Jesus not invented yet.
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Notes: Yes
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Notes: But they will obey a Magi: Dr. Fauci
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Highlight: My soul, by the power of its wisdom, controls and chains you, though the fetters are unseen. So long as craft can master force, so long as religion has a cave from which oracles can dupe mankind, the wise hold an empire over earth.
Notes: Craft can master force. 33.3 the Egyptian’s prayer.
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Notes: Prosperity gospel.
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Highlight: From their flexile and unformed minds I can carve out my fittest tools. I weave — I warp — I mould them at my will. Of the men I make merely followers or servants; of the women…’
‘Mistresses,
Notes: !!! The Magi
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Highlight: woman is the main object, the great appetite, of my soul. As you feed the victim for the slaughter, I love to rear the votaries of my pleasure. I love to train, to ripen their minds — to unfold the sweet blossom of their hidden passions, in order to prepare the fruit to my taste.
Notes: Unfold sweet blossom
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Highlight: two stages of sanctity — the first, FAITH — the next, DELUSION; the one for the vulgar, the second for the sage.’
Notes: Sanctity is a delusion
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Highlight: Ione must be mine! In her I have a double passion; I wish to enjoy a beauty of spirit as of form.’
Notes: The female
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Highlight: For it is not the young, nor the beautiful, nor the gay, that should fascinate Ione; her imagination must be won,
Notes: How to win her.
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Notes: Ask circe
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Highlight: He felt that henceforth it was his destiny to look upward and to soar.
Notes: Look up and soar.
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Notes: More than words
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Notes: Follow the Science
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Highlight: The ignorant and servile vulgar must be blinded to attain to their proper good; they would not believe a maxim — they revere an oracle.
Notes: Fauci says to wear a mask.
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Highlight: Remember two sayings of Sextus the Pythagorean, sayings borrowed from the lore of Egypt. The first is, “Speak not of God to the multitude”; the second is, “The man worthy of God is a god among men.”
Notes: Two sayings
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Notes: to drain, weaken, or sap the energy, vitality, or strength from something or someone.
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Notes: Research
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Highlight: Imagine every entertainment for mind and body — enumerate all the gymnastic games our fathers invented — repeat all the books Italy and Greece have produced — suppose places for all these games, admirers for all these works — add to this, baths of the vastest size, the most complicated construction — intersperse the whole with gardens, with theatres, with porticoes, with schools — suppose, in one word, a city of the gods, composed but of palaces and public edifices, and you may form some faint idea of the glories of the great baths of Rome.’
Notes: Rome is America. Is fallen. We did our best. Now Vesuvius must destroy this place.
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Highlight: Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
Notes: Wow!
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Highlight: Oh, glorious were the promises which led me to the shrine of Isis!
Notes: Promise me
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Highlight: I explained to you that from those delusions came the bonds of society, the harmony of the world, the power of the wise; that power is in the obedience of the vulgar.
Notes: Delusional programs
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Highlight: What are we to believe? and What are we to reject?
Notes: Good questions
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Highlight: Necessity is the ruler of all we see — power, regularity — these two qualities make its nature.
Notes: Necessity
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Highlight: Nature is the great agent of the external universe, and Necessity imposes upon it the laws by which it acts, and imparts to us the powers by which we examine; those powers are curiosity and memory — their union is reason, their perfection is wisdom.
Notes: Nature necessity wisdom
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Notes: Fondness for sensuous luxury
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Highlight: There is no profession so lucrative as that which practises on the superstition of the multitude.
Notes: Priestcraft. Spellcast. News cast. Scrying screen. Black mirror. Smart phone.
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Highlight: so glorious and so fresh were their youth, their beauty, and their love. They seemed out of place in the harsh and every-day earth; they belonged of right to the Saturnian age,
Notes: Young love
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Highlight: He knew that there is no victim so thoroughly subdued as a young and fervent man for the first time delivered to the thraldom of the senses.
Notes: Thraldom of senses
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Highlight: the believers of Galilee are but the unconscious repeaters of one of the superstitions of the Nile!’
Notes: Osiris the son and savior was also baptized, dead, and rose again.
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Highlight: Days have passed since I heard her voice. For the first time, life grows flat to me. I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead, and the flowers faded. Ah! Ione, couldst thou dream how I adore thee!’
Notes: I love you
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Highlight: are there gods? Yes, there is one goddess, at least, whose voice I can command; and that is — Vengeance!’
Notes: Goddess of Vengeance
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Notes: Always pushing stone up hill in HADES
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Highlight: As long as he was rich, none pried into his conduct. He pursued the dark tenour of his way undisturbed and secure.
Notes: Essential workers will kill for the rich.
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Highlight: He stood, then, upon that bridge of life, from which man sees before him distinctly a wasted youth on the one side, and the darkness of approaching age upon the other: a time in which we are more than ever anxious, perhaps, to secure to ourselves, ere it be yet too late, whatever we have been taught to consider necessary to the enjoyment of a life of which the brighter half is gone.
Notes: I stand upon this very same bridge.
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Highlight: Beautiful Ione,’ said Arbaces, as he bent to touch her hand, ‘it is you that have eclipsed the day — it is your eyes that light up the halls — it is your breath which fills them with perfumes.’
Notes: Excellent salutation.
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Notes: Vestal Virgin
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Highlight: But thou dost not disdain riches, O Ione! they know not what life is capable of who are not wealthy. Gold is the great magician of earth — it realizes our dreams — it gives them the power of a god — there is a grandeur, a sublimity, in its possession; it is the mightiest, yet the most obedient of our slaves.’
Notes: wealth is the most obedient slave.
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Notes: The sable blackness of her hair.
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Highlight: I, who never knelt to mortal being, kneel to thee. I, who have commanded fate, receive from thee my own. Ione, tremble not, thou art my queen — my goddess — be my bride! All the wishes thou canst form shall be fulfilled. The ends of the earth shall minister to thee — pomp, power, luxury, shall be thy slaves. Arbaces shall have no ambition, save the pride of obeying thee. Ione, turn upon me those eyes — shed upon me thy smile.
Notes: The Egyptian’s love pitch.
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Notes: Flashing. Sparkling.
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Highlight: As at Paris at this day, so at that time in the cities of Italy, men lived almost wholly out of doors: the public buildings, the forum, the porticoes, the baths, the temples themselves, might be considered their real homes;
Notes: Live outside.
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Highlight: It is said that when they meet at nights they always commence their ceremonies by the murder of a new-born babe; they profess a community of goods, too — the wretches! A community of goods! What would become of merchants, or jewellers either, if such notions were in fashion?
Notes: Communists and baby sacrifice.
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Highlight: They regarded the Christian as the enemy of mankind; the epithets they lavished upon him, of which ‘Atheist’ was the most favored and frequent, may serve, perhaps, to warn us, believers of that same creed now triumphant, how we indulge the persecution of opinion Olinthus then underwent, and how we apply to those whose notions differ from our own the terms at that day lavished on the fathers of our faith.
Notes: Regarding the Christian
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Highlight: Does the veil of Vesta hide the vices of the prostitute?’
Notes: Priestcraft
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Notes: Revolution start from the tiniest spark.
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Highlight: Noble Ione, I have neither beauty nor station; I am a child, and a slave, and blind. The despicable are ever safe.’
Notes: Isis plays coy.
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Notes: Bet on it.
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Highlight: The magician’s gift, that revives the dead — that animates the dust of forgotten graves, is not in the author’s skill — it is in the heart of the reader!
Notes: Hello Edward Bulwer-Lytton. I say hello through time!
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Highlight: Searching after truth, I have become but the minister of falsehoods.
Notes: Isis preist
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Highlight: the faith of the philosophers was not that of the herd; that if they secretly professed a creed in some diviner power, it was not the creed which they thought it wise to impart to the community.
Notes: It’s a secret.
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Highlight: For the Christian faith made its early converts among sinners!
Notes: Forgiveness
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Highlight: they may be seen at this day among the disinterred treasures of Pompeii, in the chambers of the studio at Naples.
Notes: The jewels. Ask circe
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Highlight: They imagined the heathen divinities to be evil spirits — they transplanted to Italy and to Greece the gloomy demons of India and the East; and in Jupiter or in Mars they shuddered at the representative of Moloch or of Satan.
Notes: Nightmare on repeat.
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Highlight: They could not associate with beings whose commonest actions, whose commonest forms of speech, were impregnated with idolatry.
Notes: Stay away from essential workers
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Highlight: Prepare for death; the end of all things is at hand?”
Notes: Alas! take heed!
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Highlight: A female!’ his heart beat quick. ‘Is she young?’
Notes: Hehe
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Highlight: First, then, of all my pleasures, even before that of love, shall come revenge!
Notes: Revenge!
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Notes: Modesty and womanhood
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Highlight: Bright stars that never lie, ye already begin the execution of your promises — success in love, and victory over foes, for the rest of my smooth existence.
Notes: Bright stars never lie
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Highlight: age should harden our hearts to all things but ourselves; as every year adds a scale to the shell-fish,
Notes: Shell fish selfish
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Notes: Fuck you vaccine, face mask, and fake flu.
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Highlight: WHOEVER regards the early history of Christianity, will perceive how necessary to its triumph was that fierce spirit of zeal, which, fearing no danger, accepting no compromise, inspired its champions and sustained its martyrs.
Notes: The zealots of early Cristians.
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Highlight: It was necessary to scorn, to loathe, to abhor the creeds of other men, in order to conquer the temptations which they presented
Notes: Essential workers are cretins of the devil
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Highlight: in this spot, and this scene, the brother and the sister sat together for the last time on earth. You may tread now on the same place; but the garden is no more, the columns are shattered, the fountain has ceased to play. Let the traveler search amongst the ruins of Pompeii for the house of Ione. Its remains are yet visible; but I will not betray them to the gaze of commonplace
Notes: Brother and sister to the last
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Highlight: Dost thou feel that, for his sake, thou couldst renounce pride, brave dishonour, and incur death? I have heard that when women really love, it is to that excess.
Notes: When women really love
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Notes: Materialist maximus.
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Highlight: Give me thy sister, and my whole life shall atone a moment’s error.’
Notes: Give me thy sister.
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Highlight: They work hard; they ought to have some amusement.’
Notes: Bread and circus ba’al games
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Notes: Rude in a mean spirited surly way.
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Notes: Sensual enjoyment. Fine food and drink.
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Highlight: From the summit of Vesuvius, darkly visible at the distance, there shot a pale, meteoric, livid light — it trembled an instant and was gone.
Notes: Meteoric livid light!
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Highlight: Yet this was the last night for the gay Pompeii! the colony of the hoar Chaldean! the fabled city of Hercules! the delight of the voluptuous Roman! Age after age had rolled, indestructive, unheeded, over its head; and now
Notes: The last day of Pompeii!
Notes: Reap what thy sow.
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Highlight: THY VICTIM IS THY JUDGE! THE WORM THOU WOULDST CRUSH BECOMES THE SERPENT THAT DEVOURS THEE!’
Notes: Divine justice
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Notes: Think about it
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Notes: Take or claim without justification.
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Highlight: Pompeii was but the miniature, the microcosm of Rome. Still, it was an awful and imposing spectacle, with which modern times have, happily, nothing to compare — a vast theatre, rising row upon row, and swarming with human beings, from fifteen to eighteen thousand in number, intent upon no fictitious representation — no tragedy of the stage — but the actual victory or defeat, the exultant life or the bloody death, of each and all who entered the arena!
Notes: ROMAN BLOOD SPORT.
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Highlight: Aroused — inflamed by the spectacle of their victims, they forgot the authority of their rulers.
Notes: They shall not regard their governors.
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Highlight: Arise! arise! my friend,’ he cried. ‘Save thyself, and fly! See! Nature is thy dread deliverer!’ He led forth the bewildered Christian,
Notes: Mother nature triune God
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Notes: Think about it.
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Highlight: for there is nothing more loathsome than the valor of avarice.
Notes: Agreed
Notes: Nydia the blind slave.
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Highlight: Utterly exhausted and worn out, Ione slept on the breast of Glaucus, and Nydia lay at his feet.
Notes: Hmmm
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