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Remo Verdickt

@removerdickt.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral researcher at University of Leuven Postdoc project on the US Supreme Court's uses of literature PhD on James Baldwin (KU Leuven)

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Karakter - Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap @karakterasl.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Podcast | Waarom is James Baldwin opnieuw zo populair? Dr. @removerdickt.bsky.social (KUL) analyseert de recente 'Baldwinmania' en wat die ons leert over wat literatuur nu precies 'groot' maakt. Een tijdloze kwaliteit of net een tijdige inzetbaarheid? open.spotify.com/episode/20ae...
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James Baldwin – dr. Remo Verdickt
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 05/05/2026
What's notable to me about the Alito-Jackson spat on Monday is how little Alito's opinion bothers with anything resembling legal analysis. He doesn't respond to Jackson, in any meaningful sense. It's just an angry blog post about how she really ought to be more respectful to him.
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Samuel Alito Had No Answers For Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Latest Dissent
The more transparently political the Court’s work becomes, the more fiercely the conservative justices insist that there is nothing political about the Court’s work.
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
1.35 hour meeting with Cărtărescu and his translator into Dutch Jan Willem Bos moderated by my Belgian friend Remo Verdickt. In English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuF_...
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Mircea Cărtărescu: Master of Modern Surrealism
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Emiel Roothooft en ik konden ons geen mooier begin voor 2026 inbeelden dan de publicatie van ons interview met Mircea Cărtărescu in De Nederlandse Boekengids. Mulțumesc aan Mircea en dNBg! www.nederlandseboekengids.com/20260113-emi...
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Emiel Roothooft & Remo Verdickt | Een interview met Mircea Cărtărescu
De Roemeense auteur Mircea Cărtărescu schreef met Theodoros een instantklassieker. Op die Nobelprijs is het nog minstens een jaar wachten, maar de Roemeen blikt zowel voor- als achteruit. In dit inter...
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
5-star review of Theodoros by Remo Verdickt in De Standaard
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I sat down with Coates for an interview Monday, asked him about the direction The Atlantic has taken with TCW, Chait, Jenkins etc. He gracefully steered the conversation away from personal attacks to focus on state of the press at large. He's a better man than me. @theatlantic.com you bunch of hacks
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Congrats to Laure Hinckel for winning Le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025 for her corruscating translation of Mircea Cărtărescu's Theodoros! actualitte.com/article/1273...
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Laure Hinckel remporte le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2025
Porté par ATLAS, l’Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire, le Grand Prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles, doté de 5000 €, a été...
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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 04/11/2025
“What [Dick Cheney works] to preclude is any acknowledgment that the issue at hand, whether it is avoiding military service or authorizing torture, might have a moral or an ethical or even a self-interested dimension that merits discussion.” —Joan Didion
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Cheney: The Fatal Touch | Joan Didion
It was in some ways predictable that the central player in the system of willed errors and reversals that is the Bush administration would turn out to be its vice-president, Richard B. Cheney.
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Just learned that WRITING BACKWARDS has won Narrative's 2026 Perkins Prize, "awarded to the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year." A true honor, especially given the prize's past recipients! www.thenarrativesociety.org/barbara-and-...
A paperback copy of "Writing Backwards: Historical Fiction and the Reshaping of the American Canon" on a wooden desktop.
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Maybe I'm just being terribly naive here, but I wonder if this is gonna have any repercussions for Clarence Thomas' allegiance to MAGA... (excerpt from Thomas' memoir)
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Not sure how you feel about this, but it sure seems like the South Park creators are secretly Adrian stans!
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
and ours!
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
About halfway through I was so numbed by all of his ridiculously tiresome monologues that I misread his comment about Charlie Kirk as Thiel saying that it was "above his gay pride." Could have fooled me...
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I wrote about Peter Thiel’s lectures on the Antichrist and how the fact that there’s a strong chance Thiel thinks Greta Thunberg is the literal Antichrist isn’t even the weirdest thing about them — at the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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Peter Thiel’s off-the-record antichrist lectures reveal more about him than Armageddon
Silicon Valley titan desperately tries to detach self from power in amateurish talks attempting to ape his favorite philosopher
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Daniel Pérez Castrillón @mangrii.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Super interesante entrevista👇🏻
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
¡Muchas gracias, Daniel!
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress theuntranslated.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
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Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress
Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag I am honoured again to publish on The Untranslated an interview with Mircea Cărtărescu. Like the previous time, the interview was conducted by my Belgian friends Emiel Roothoo…
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Pretty pleased with myself about that "wolves get the last word" line :p
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Tight deadline, just following the lava flow. @theuntranslated.bsky.social www.standaard.be/media-en-cul...
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Bij Nobelprijswinnaar Laszlo Krasznahorkai krijgen wolven het laatste woord
Laszlo Krasznahorkai is misschien wel de meest pessimistische Nobelprijswinnaar Literatuur ooit. Al veertig jaar timmert de Hongaar aan een monumentaal oeuvre waarin wel veel komma’s, maar weinig punten staan, en waarin hoop ver te zoeken is.
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Jan Willem Bos did a fantastic job with Theodoros, out next week in Dutch. All eyez on u, Sean Cotter!
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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Deep Vellum to publish Mircea Cărtărescu’s THEODOROS in October 2026 www.deepvellum.org/news/theodor...
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Deep Vellum to publish Mircea Cărtărescu’s THEODOROS in October 2026 — Deep Vellum
Deep Vellum is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Mircea Cărtărescu’s Theodoros , which will be published in English translation by Sean Cotter on October 27, 2026 . Originally published ...
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
great interview, Claudia! Something tells me that @theuntranslated.bsky.social will also publish something very soon...
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
James Baldwin Review vol. 11, our special issue on 'European Baldwins,' is out now! @jbrjournal.bsky.social Read Justin Joyce's editorial preface on the American conundrum here: www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal... The entire volume is available here : www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Thank you so much for this wonderful interview, René, and even more for your brilliant book Der Zeuge!
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René Aguigah @aguigah.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Feeling so honored to be part of this issue of James Baldwin Review, with an Interview on „James Baldwin. Der Zeuge“, thanks to @removerdickt.bsky.social 🙏🏾 www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
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James Baldwin Review @jbrjournal.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is proud to announce the publication of its eleventh volume with thanks to the extraordinary collaborative vision of three European guest editors: Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna Zocco. #JamesBaldwin www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...
Cover art for JBR Vol 11, featuring James Baldwin's US passport. courtesy of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The #JamesBaldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal, bringing together work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin Volume 11 is now available to buy as a paperback bit.ly/46gAHlK Find out more about our brand new series #ThinkingWithJamesBaldwin bit.ly/3KAncol @jbrjournal.bsky.social
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Manchester University Press - James Baldwin Review
James Baldwin Review - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of James Baldwin Review by Douglas Field
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Next up he's gonna complain about wasting $ 50 on Pynchon, only then to find out that hefty hardcover *gasp* wasn't a vindication of James Nolan Mason and Thomas Dixon Jr
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Pretty sure Anthony Kennedy's just gonna kick off his book tour with a reenactment of the Brooks Brothers Riot
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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel
YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Nicholas Boggs joins #LARBRadioHour to talk his new biography. “James Baldwin: A Love Story” offers an intimate portrait of the literary legend anchored by the romances that shaped his life, writing, and political vision. lareviewofbooks.org/av/nicholas-bog…
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Nicholas Boggs’s “James Baldwin: A Love Story” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Eric Newman speaks with Nicholas Boggs about his monumental new biography, James Baldwin: A Love Story.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
If I may borrow a phrase: nicht alle 'Dead books' solten wieder auferstehen!
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Something similar happened with the Dutch translation (originally published by AFD's Flemish counterpart Vlaams Belang) in 2016, when Schwob (funded by the Dutch Foundation for Literature) included the translation in its series of "forgotten or unexplored books" www.schwob.nl/boeken/index...
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Jean Raspail - De ontscheping - Schwob
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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Due to popular demand, we’ve unlocked this episode for public consumption.
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Trump Brings the War Home [UNLOCKED]
Podcast Episode · 5-4 · 08/08/2025 · 58m
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Between Trump's love for Hannibal Lecter, Vance's Chigurhesque affectations and Clarence Thomas invoking Native Son, “Western literature has become an amalgam of key resources in posttruth politics—its various meanings obfuscated, oversimplified or wildly distorted to fit neoreactionary ideologies."
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I wrote about MAGA's idiosyncratic readings and brazen weaponizations of the Western canon. Buckle up for a bumpy ride from Curtis Yarvin's Tlön to Gustavo Petro's Macondo. Part of JTAS' special issue "Reflections on the US 2024 Elections in a Global Context." escholarship.org/uc/item/1199...
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No Country for Illiterate Men? Reading Western Literature in the Wake of November 5
Author(s): Verdickt, Remo | Abstract: This essay reflects on the 2024 US presidential election in light of the conservative movement’s increasing conflation of fact and literary fiction. Recent mobili...
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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Happy 101st Birthday #JamesBaldwin! We’re celebrating by announcing the launch of our new series: Thinking with James Baldwin The series explores new approaches to Baldwin’s work, incl his fiction, essays, poetry, short stories, interviews & activism manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/think...
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Brenda Lelie @brendalelie.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"Het bed met de gouden poot is tegelijk een ideale introductie tot de Letse cultuur en een tijdloze vertelling die uitnodigt om verder na te denken over hoe de geschiedenis zich misschien niet zozeer herhaalt, als wel steeds gekleurd wordt door ons eigen referentiekader." @removerdickt.bsky.social
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Zigmunds Skujins’ ‘Het bed met de gouden poot’: 500 pagina’s uitstekende literatuur ★★★★☆
Eindelijk is er een Nederlandse vertaling van Zigmunds Skujins’ Het bed met de gouden poot. De imposante familiekroniek is tegelijk een ideale introductie tot de Letse cultuur en een tijdloze allegorie.
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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
This week’s episode is Mahmoud v. Taylor, where the Court held that some children’s books are just too gay for public schools.
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Mahmoud v. Taylor
Podcast Episode · 5-4 · 07/22/2025 · 1h 2m
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
I wrote about the underground circulation of James Baldwin translations in the USSR and Francoist Spain by way of the missing link between Baldwin and Jorge Luis Borges. Featured in Revista Ártemis' special issue Inqueerir a tradução: sexualidades, línguas e textos periodicos.ufpb.br/index.php/ar...
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Borgesian Baldwin: Giovanni’s Room , “The Aleph,” and Queer Translation Practices | Revista Ártemis
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I'm reviewing this masterpiece for a Flemish newspaper + Emiel and I are interviewing Cartarescu again in September! On the topic of reviews: next up is the Dutch translation of Zigmunds Skujins' Gulta ar zelta kāju, ever read that one :)?
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"Throughout Fielder’s oeuvre, a lifetime in TV is betrayed by the ease with which he can slip into virtually any mode of contemporary filmmaking." Paul Thompson reviews Nathan Fielder’s “The Rehearsal” lareviewofbooks.org/article/i-becam…
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Together with Pieter Vermeulen, I co-wrote an essay on James Baldwin's posthumous career for Parallax's special issue on Literature and Public World-Making. Here's an eprint link for 50 free online copies of the article! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/F78UK...
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Afterlives of the Literary: James Baldwin’s Posthumous Publics
Published in Parallax (Vol. 30, No. 1, 2024)
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
en déposant ensuite une tache au bas de ta chemise d’un atlas si blanc qu’il semble doré, et deux autres sous tes épaulettes en opale, d’abord à droite, puis à gauche, au nom du Père, du Fils et du Saint-Esprit, Amen, ton signe de croix sera-t-il reçu ?
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Remo Verdickt @removerdickt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Si tu te signes avec trois doigts poisseux de sang, en te marquant le front au-dessus des sourcils (une goutte glisse le long de ton nez bistre et aquilin jusqu’à ta moustache nouée du côté gauche avec un fil d’or, et tombe sur les dalles de malachite de la forteresse royale),
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Karakter - Tijdschrift voor Wetenschap @karakterasl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
In de herfst van zijn carrière begon James Baldwins reputatie te tanen. Honderd jaar na zijn geboorte is hij echter relevanter dan ooit. Waarom? Lees de analyse van @removerdickt.bsky.social (KU Leuven). 🔗 www.tijdschriftkarakter.be/voorbij-de-d...
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Tijdschrift van wetenschap biedt een etalage op recente vernieuwingen in de internationale wetenschap
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Mike Brock 🇺🇸 @brockm.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This has been my most ambitious piece of writing so far. It's long. And I will be working on a much shorter version for a wider audience. But I also don't want to lose sight of the deep truths lurking around us. So, here is The Plot Against America. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...
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The Plot Against America
How a Dangerous Ideology Born From the Libertarian Movement Stands Ready to Seize America
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de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 20/01/2025
Waarom het boek ‘Giovanni’s kamer’ van James Baldwin, bijna 70 jaar oud, ook relevant is voor een nieuwe generatie
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Waarom het boek ‘Giovanni’s kamer’ van James Baldwin, bijna 70 jaar oud, ook relevant is voor een nieuwe generatie
Giovanni’s kamer (1956), nog steeds een van de meestgelezen boeken van James Baldwin, gaat over een jonge Amerikaan in Parijs die worstelt met zijn seksuele geaardheid. Het verhaal wordt nu door Internationaal Theater Amsterdam op de planken gebracht. Wat betekent het boek voor de jongere generatie?
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