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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: CHAPTER 27 Knights and Squires Stubb was the second mate. He was a native of Cape Cod; and hence, according to local usage, was called a Cape-Cod-man. A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with... 🌱 #Lips #ClassicBooks #HermanMelville

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: If, then, to meanest mariners, and renegades and castaways, I shall hereafter ascribe high qualities, though dark; weave round them tragic graces; if even the most mournful, perchance the most based, among them all, shall at... #StreetArt #mural #monster #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars. But this august dignity I treat of, is not the dignity of kings and robes, but that abounding dignity which has no... #ClassicBooks #sunrise #ocean #landscape

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: But were the coming narrative to reveal, in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall... #Frenchie #FrenchBulldog #DogSky #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: With memories like these in him, and, moreover, given to a certain superstitiousness, as has been said; the courage of this Starbuck which could, nevertheless, still flourish, must indeed have been extreme. But it was not in reasonable nature... #puns #ClassicBooks #silly

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A whale and the words: Whale done!
An anthropomorphic grilled cheese and the words: So grilled to see you!
A snail and the words: Sailed it!
Anthropomorphic potato and tortilla chips and the words: Friend-chip goals

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Starbuck was no crusader after perils; in him courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful to him, and always at hand upon all mortally practical occasions. Besides, he thought, perhaps, that in this business of whaling,... #LuluThePiggie #ClassicBooks #cute

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: "I will have no man iny boat," said Starbuck, "who is not afraid of a whale." By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly... 🌱 #bee #BugSky

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest. Uncommonly conscientious for a seaman, and endued with... #JewelWeed 🌱 #seed #SlowMo #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

He was by no means ill-looking; quite the contrary. His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages... #banana #ClassicBooks #HermanMelville

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: CHAPTER 26 Knights and Squires The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent. He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his... #StreetArt #Montreal #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: But the only thing to be considered here, is this—what kind of oil is used at coronations? Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor Macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil. What then can... #frenchie #FrenchBulldog #dog #ClassicBooks

A French bulldog looks through the split in a sliding glass door. The dog is white with black spots.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Can it be, though, that they anoint it with a view of making its interior run well, as they anoint machinery? Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly... #BugSky 🌱 #bee #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: CHAPTER 25 Postscript In behalf of the dignity of whaling, I would fain advance naught but substantiated facts. But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not-unreasonable surmise, which might tell... #sunshine #shadow #zen #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Grant it, since you cite it; but, say what you will, there is no real dignity in whaling. *No dignity in whaling?* The dignity of our calling the very heavens attest. Cetus is a constellation in the South! No more! Drive down your hat in the presence of the Czar, and...

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Good again; but then all confess that somehow whaling is not respectable. *Whaling not respectable?* Whaling is imperial! By old English statutory law, the whale is declared "a royal fish."* (*See subsequent chapters for something more... 🌱 #pink #flower #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: True enough, but then whalemen themselves are poor devils; they have no good blood in their veins. *No good blood in their veins?* They have something better than royal blood there. The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel; ... 🌱 #zen #rain #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say. *The whale no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler?* Who wrote the first account of our Leviathan? Who but mighty Job! And who composed the first... #moon #sky #blue #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote: But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no æsthetically noble associations connected with it, then I am ready to shiver fifty Lance's with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time. #Montreal #StreetArt #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia, was given to the enlightened world by the whaleman. After its first blunder-born discovery by a Dutchman, all other ships long shunned those shores as pestiferously... 🌱 #NativeSpecies #BugSky #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast. It was the whaleman who... 🌱 #HardyHibiscus #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: It would be a hopeless, endless task to catalogue all these things. Let a handful suffice. For many years past the whale-ship has been the pioneer in ferreting out the remotest and least known parts of the earth. She has explored seas... #BugSky #zen #river #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: I freely assert, that the cosmopolite philosopher cannot, for his life, point out one single peaceful influence, which within the last sixty years has operated more potentially upon the whole broad world, taken in one aggregate, than... #BugSky #cicada #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: But look at this matter in other lights; weigh it in all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witte's time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Louis XVI. of France,... 🌱 #bee #NativeSpecies #ClassicBooks #BugSky

Closeup of a native bee on a bee balm flower. The flower is purple. The bee has a fuzzy yellow thorax and looks like it's wearing a glamorous fur stole. The bee's face is upwards and its eye is shiny.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: But even granting the charge in question to be true; what disordered slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those battle-fields from which so many soldiers return to drink in all ladies' plaudits?... #zen #waterfall #canmore #alberta

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Doubtless one leading reason why the world declined honoring us whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, out vocation amounts to a butchering sort of business; and that when actively engaged therein, we are surrounded by... #duckie #ClassicBooks #summerween #BookSky

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: CHAPTER 24 The Advocate As Queequeg and I are now fairly embarked in this business of whaling; and as this business of whaling has somehow come to be regarded among landsmen as a rather unpoetical and disreputable pursuit; therefore I am... #beach #sand #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote: Know ye, now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; while the wildest winds of... #DisapppointedCat #ClassicBooks #silly

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give succour; the port is pitiful; in the port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets,... #burdock 🌱 #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: CHAPTER 23 The Lee Shore Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, new-landed mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn. When on that shivering winter's night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the... 🌱 #cactus #cat #BookSky #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote: Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic. #orchid #phalaenopsis 🌱 #ClassicBooks

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Saunieindiego @saunieindiego.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

DUE TOMORROW (6/29) USFS using a SIX DAY comment period is trying to rush forward with a logging project that targets 11 million acres of our national forests. Please comment here cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/Comme... My comment if you need talking points: birdsmatter.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/u...

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U.S. Forest Service USFS Public Comment opposing the 2026 Blowdown Emergency Project (Project #328084)

Subject: Public Comment opposing the 2026 Blowdown Emergency Project (Project #328084) Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Forest Management Act (NFMA), this …

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: "God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men," murmured old Bildad, almost incoherently. "I hope ye'll have fine weather now, so that Captain Ahab may soon be moving among ye—a pleasant sun is all he needs, and ye'll have plenty... #spider #vroom #ClassucBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: As for Peleg himself, he took it more like a philosopher; but for all his philosophy, there was a tear twinkling in his eye, when the lantern came too near. And he, too, did not a little run from cabin to deck—now a word below, and now... 🌱 #rose #StreetArt #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad. For loath to depart, yet; very loath to leave, for good, a ship bound on so long and perilous a voyage—beyond both stormy... #lily 🌱 #ClassicBooks #BookSky

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Never did those sweet words sound more sweetly to me than then. They were full of hope and fruition. Spite of this frigid winter night in the boisterous Atlantic, spit of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there was yet, it then seemed to me, many... #ClassicBooks 🌱 #peony

Two peony flowers in a nubbled, white glass vase. One peony is white and the other is a soft peach colour. The background is a plain white wall.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: At last the anchor was up, the sails were set, and off we glided. It was a sharp, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing sprays cased us in ice, ... 🌱 #yellow #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: "Is that the way they heave in the marchant [sic] service?" he roared. "Spring, thou sheep-head; spring, and break the backbone! Why don't ye spring, I say, all of ye—spring! Quohog! spring, thou chap with the red whiskers; spring there,... 🌱 #peony #ClassicBookd

Closeup of the center of a beige peony flower, with a fringe of pollen stalks around 5 pink-tipped seed pods.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Meantime, overseeing the other part of the ship, Captain Peleg ripped and swore astern in the most frightful manner. I almost thought he would sink the ship before the anchor could be got up; involuntarily I paused ony handspike, and... #coffee 🌱 #tomato #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: "Aft here, ye sons of bachelors," he cried, as the sailors lingered at the main-mast. "Mr. Starbuck, drive 'em aft." "Strike the tent there!"—was the next order. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port;... #sunset #ships #ClassicBooks

Silhouette of a ship and loading dock in front of a burning orange sunset.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: How now! Here, upon the very point of starting for the voyage, Captain Peleg and Captain Bildad were going it with a high hand on the quarter-deck, just as if they were to be joint-commanders at sea, as well as to all appearances in port. And,... #peony 🌱 #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: CHAPTER 22 Merry Christmas At length, towards noon, upon the final dismissal of the ship's riggers, and after the Pequod had been hauled out from the wharf, and after the ever-thoughtful Charity had come off in a whaleboat, with her last gift—... #ClassicBooks 🌱 #peony

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote: "Aye, aye, ye are going in her, be ye? She sails to-day. The Captain came aboard last night." "What Captain.—Ahab?" "Who but him indeed?" I was going to ask him.some further questions concerning Ahab, when we heard a noise on deck. "Hollloa! Starbuck's.. #ClassicBooks 🌱

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: While narrating these things, every time Queequeg received the tomahawk from me, he flourished the hatchet-side of it over the sleeper's head. "What's that for, Queequeg?" "Perry easy, kille-e; oh, Perry easy!" He was going on with some wild... #ClassicBooks 🌱

Closeup of a daisy-like flower with a large raindrop in the center. The flower has a yellow middle and pale pink, needle-like petals.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Queequeg removed himself to just beyond the head of the sleeper, and lighted his tomahawk pipe. I say at the feet. We kept the pipe passing over the sleeper, from one to the other. Meanwhile, upon questioning him in his broken fashion,... #ClassicBooks 🌱 #chestnut

Flowers of a chestnut tree. They have frilly white outsides and stamens and different colour insides: Yellow, peach, and pink.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: He [Queequeg] put his hand upon the sleeper's rear, as though feeling if it was sift enough; and then, without more ado, sat quietly down there. "Gracious! Queequeg, don't sit there," said I. "Oh! perry dood seat," said.. #StreetPhotography #AStudyInOrange #ClassicBooks

Street view with a bench, McDonald's cup, and orange sign that says, "Rue barrée".

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: "Those sailors we saw, Queequeg, where can they have gone to?" said I, looking dubiously at the sleeper. But it seemed that,vwhen on the wharf, Queequeg had not at all noticed what I now alluded to; hence I would have thought myself... #ClassicBooks #garden #dandelion

White dandelion seed head, with yellow dandelion flowers and greenery in the background.

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: Once more we quitted him; but once more he came softly after us; and touching my shoulder again, said, "See if you can find 'em now, will ye?" "Find who?" "Morning to ye! morning to ye!" he rejoined, again moving off. "Oh! I was going to warn ye... #ClassicBooks 🌱

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: "Elijah," said I, you will oblige my friend and me by withdrawing. We are going to the Indian and Pacific oceans, and would prefer not to be detained." "Ye be, be ye? Coming back adore breakfast?" "He's cracked, Queequeg," said I, "come on." ... #orchid 🌱 #ClassicBooks

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: CHAPTER 21 Going Aboard It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf. "There are some sailors running ahead there, if I see right," said I to Queequeg, "it can't be shadows; she's off by... #strawberries #ClassicBooks #summer

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She Who Quotes Moby Dick @helenhv.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵: But when a man suspects any wrong, it sometimes happens that if he be already involved in the matter, he insensibly strives to cover up his suspicions even from himself. And much this way it was with me. I said nothing,... #Graffiti #ClassicBooks #inspo

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