Ursula K. Le Guin's novel The Dispossessed features a wall that serves as a significant emblem of the environment in which the novel is set. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2000. Library Journal (March 15, 2007), This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. The meaning of these works is fluid, equivocal very much in the spirit of what Mikhail Bakhtin has called polyglossia, a literary device of allowing multiple perspectives and interpretations to coexist in a literary work. The Word of Unbinding - Ursula K. Le Guin 2017-02-14 "Ursula Le Guin is more than just a writer of adult fantasy and science fiction . Populated by unforgettable characters and set on alien planets, they help readers explore our own worldits gender dynamics, social psychology, and even economics. She farewells him, knowing that he will not return in her lifetime. Boston: Shambhala, 1998. Publication Series But the idea behind the story came from both Fyodor Dostoevsky and from the nineteenth-century psychologist, William James. The less obvious examples of time as both cyclical and linear appear as symbols in the Orsinian landscapes and cityscapes. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas: analysis. Omelas, the distinctive-sounding but entirely fictional city in Ursula K. Le Guin's 1973 short story 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas', came from her reading a road sign for Salem, Oregon, ('Salem, O.') in her car's rear-view mirror. Of course, LibraryThing is even more useful if you post your book collection, and the process is wonderfully easy. The dual quality of time is also subtly reflected in the structures built by humans. Steiner, George. Another proudly proclaimed that they didnt like Harry Potter, but wanted to buy the game to support Rowling. The connections are deeply rooted in each persons individual and collective history and experience. She makes a unicorn trap with colored bits of paper and falls asleep in the woods. Sometimes the child is brought just enough food to keep it alive, but the child is never allowed out of its prison cell. One of the characters in A Week in the Country, for example, has a Nazi death camp number tattoo on his arm. I made myself into a witch, or a thief, or a writer. It was actually a comforting book to read during that month. New York: Frederick Ungar, 1981. How should we respond to this troubling and powerful story? In both books, Le Guin is great on sexual politics, in several senses of that phrase: she shows the ways that the political order is shaped by sexual experience, and sexual experience by the political order. Often they are brought to see the miserable child on whom their own happiness, and that of their fellow citizens, is dependent. root, trunk, branch, leaf, and know. And she knows that the way to effect this change is through cooperation. And yes, I was puzzling over that. Title: Ether, OR Title Record # 229901 Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Date: 1995-11-00 Variant Title of: Ether OR [may list more publications, awards, reviews, votes and covers] Type: SHORTFICTION Length: novelette Language: English User Rating: This title has no votes.VOTE Current Tags: None Athenaeum Review is a publication of the School of Arts and Humanities and the Edith ODonnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, All That Is Mine I Carry With Me: A Novel. New York: Harcourt, 2003. Ursula Kroebers first finished novel, Malafrena, was set in Orsinia. Im reminded that both books were written in the era of The personal is the poltical, and it shows in important and useful ways. But there are some, the narrator tells us at the end of the story, who are so appalled by a society that would be set up in such a way, that they just walk out of the city and leave, heading for somewhere else. Within one paragraph, the past, the present, and the future converge: This is history. Changing Planes: Stories. A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults. Author Ursula Le Guin once described J.K. Rowling's. On Writing Well by William Zinsser. In February 2023, the release of video game Hogwarts Legacy generated heated discussions for a number of reasons. pic.twitter.com/DOkPCVVBP6, nat clayton horizon (@its_natclayton) February 10, 2023. from Ursula Le Guin created a whole new relationship between work forces and adult females. Often she discovered new worlds, new cultures, new societies, new people. This Tale is set about the time of the fall of the Soviet empire and the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. Le Guin's contribution to literature is noncontroversial. (The former is primary in The Left Hand of Darkness, the latter in The Dispossessed.) By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University). Ursula Le Guin was a legend when it came to speculative fiction. The young blind man at the center of Conversations at Night is a World War I veteran. In her interview with Jonathan White, she said that every age has its own history, and if there is any objective truth, we cannot reach it with words. The facts of history, remote or recent, are always enveloped in interpretation and affect each person differently, becoming a part of personal history. You can only crush them by ignoring them. Thus The Dispossessed is not a utopia, even an ambiguous utopia, in the phrase that has gradually become the books more-or-less-official subtitle. In both books, Le Guin is great on sexual politics, in several senses of that phrase: she shows the ways that the political order is shaped by sexual experience, and sexual experience by the political order. The lone thing that work forces and adult females can hold is lust and money. But others are calling for a boycott because of Rowlings public comments on issues about transgender people. Thats why, for all its flaws, The Dispossessed is an essential book for our times. Like Searoad and Orsinian Tales, most of the included stories are neither science fiction nor fantasy. We might also go back to ancient civilisations such as the Carthaginians, who sacrificed their own children to the gods in order to ensure (or so they thought) that their great civilisation would bloom, and triumph in any war. Bittner, James W. Persuading Us to Rejoice and Teaching Us How to Praise: Le Guins Orsinian Tales. Science Fiction Studies, 5. Just so long as it wasnt the business of Business, the source of profit and the means of power for other people. Ursula Le Guin outlines several problems of postmodern world in the foreword of the Late in the Day poetry collection such as, "changing our minds. Humans also change the karst by mining it, transporting, depositing, and transforming the materials. They have never done anything and they know exactly what to do And once again, in her translation of the Tao Te Ching, Le Guin writes: To know without knowing is best. This book is tough. The Wind's Twelve Quarters and the Compass Rose (S.F. All Titles Art, history, music, poetry, because of the fluidity of their meanings and individual appeal, seem to be particularly well suited for providing an enlarged perspective necessary for contemplating the current circumstances and for making decisions in the expanded present. What if that were the condition on which everyone elses happiness and success depended? When so many adult critics were carrying on about the incredible originality of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kids fantasy crossed with a school novel, good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited. It is communication and respect, self-awareness and honesty. Music and art at times remove all hindrances to contemplating the complete, enduring darkness of eternity. KINSHIPby Ursula K. Le Guin. - Ursula Le Guin A story rises from the springs of creation, from the pure will to be; it tells itself; I takes its own course, finds its own way, its own words; and the writer's job is to be its medium. And these Tales reflect her philosophical framework, as well as her understanding of time and history. I know there are men graduating, and I don't mean to . Unlocking the Air and Other Stories. All this perpetual change is both linear entropy and cyclical the lime deposits are simply shifting, not diminishing. Later still, in 2001, Le Guin wrote her last Orsinian Tale, Unlocking the Air, which takes place in 1991. In one sense, Americas prosperity, like Britains during the days of the British Empire before it, depends on the poverty and misery of millions of other people, including many people (immigrants and low-paid workers on the breadline) living in the US itself. Photo by Marian Wood Kolisch. Where does he get it from? In the story, Zida and her brothers play the game they call Ragnarok, the Norse mythologys apocalyptic war. Yet the future might depend upon achieving this difficult balance, the larger vista of time and humanitys place in it. Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way. [3] Orsinia is a product of cumulative impressions, skillfully rearranged and combined with intelligent anticipations and educated guesses about the real-life conditions of Eastern Europe throughout history. A recent American Masters documentary on her writing, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin, features intimate conversations with the author and new interviews with prominent writers, including Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, David Mitchell and Neil Gaiman. Perhaps the best illustration of that is the fact that Le Guin places her younger self and her own family as characters at the chronological center of the Orsinian Tales in the story Imaginary Countries, set in 1935. Its easy enough to summarise the plot of The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, since the story is more about a general situation than a plot as such. Because in its original published form, the Tale was not dated at the end, I asked Le Guin to date it, if she saw the necessity of doing so. In A Week in the Country, Le Guin writes: On a sunny morning in 1962 in Cleveland, Ohio, it was raining in Krasnoy, thus connecting the two continents in a single reach of thought. For instance, An Die Musik, one of the first stories she published in her long career, explores the role of music in particular and art in general in the human search for a broader view of time and identity. MASTERWORKS). The Eye of the Heron. Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass. This informed speculation creates for the reader a level of believability George Steiner has called hermeneutic trust in his translation treatise After Babel. Understandably, many people who are sympathetic to transgender rights are uncomfortable with spending money on the game, and many have called for a boycott. As a result, these books have increasingly been studied, written about, taught at the college level, and examined critically. It's a popular short story for students. Utopia is process. Likewise, in The Road East, set in 1956, political purges are exported to Orsinia from the Soviet Union via Hungary, and the Hungarian Revolution is explicitly mentioned. Entertainment site WeGotThisCovered.coms post This review absolutely nails why you shouldnt pick up Hogwarts Legacy focused on a Wired review of the game: Jaina Grey writes in her Hogwarts Legacy review, Since 2019 though, the once-beloved childrens author haswell, shes had some opinions. On a steamer bound for France in 1953, she met the historian Charles Le Guin, whom she married a few months later. In one of her conversations with Helene Escudie, Le Guin also has called Orsinia her own half-imaginary homeland.. New York: HarperCollins, 2002. It is not about control, because control is deemed illusory by the Taoists, and the need for control, according to this philosophy, results from fear. By such mental gymnastics and moral contortions are many atrocities justified. Neither tweet mentioned the origin of the quote. A February 4 2023 Facebook post contained a February 2022 tweetwhich said, its actually your civic duty to share Ursula le Guins casually devastating, icily astute take down of the harry potter novels whenever you see it: it's actually your civic duty to share Ursula le Guin's casually devastating, icily astute take down of the harry potter novels whenever you see it pic.twitter.com/XapouUrnsQ, Oliver Darkshire (@deathbybadger) February 20, 2022. A May 2021 tweet featured what appeared to be the same image, with text that said: Just thinking of how Ursula K. Le Guin bodied JK Rowling. Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic . Le Guin often revisited both Earthsea and the planets she had already discovered in the Hainish universe. Sabul uses you where he can, and where he cant, he prevents you from publishing, from teaching, even from working. Indeed, the narrator is what we might call an uncertain narrator (as distinct from an unreliable narrator), because they readily confess to the limits of their knowledge about Omelas and its practices. Of course, in one respect, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas takes this idea and turns it on its head: yes, the child (who, like the goat, is just a kid) is the one on whom the whole city dumps all of its misery so that everyone else can be happy, but rather than being set free into the wilderness, the child is imprisoned quite the opposite of escaping. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1992. The Center for the Study of Technology and Society, Subscribe today for early access to new articles and subscriber-only content. As one of the greatest fictional stories of Le Guin, The Left Hand of Anything but. Communities of the Heart: The Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin. In her own words: These stories span twelve years of writing, from the early eighties to the mid-nineties. Of course, there is no rhyme or reason why the citys happiness and prosperity should be dependent on the misery of one child. As Le Guin puts it, we share the singular catastrophe of being alive and the hope that the next generation will join us in making the right decisions. Perhaps more important for Le Guins fans is that Le Guins other (more famous) worlds are, in many respects, rooted in and connected to Orsinia, the first imaginary country she created in detail. Go to https://curiositystream.com/extracredits for unlimited access to the world's top docum. Le Guin is the person who turned me into a teenage radical, and from there into the adult radical I ended up becoming. Indeed, Le Guin claimed in her note that she had also encountered a version of this moral problem in Dostoevskys The Brothers Karamazov, although she had forgotten shed read it there. Our experts can deliver a On Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" essay tailored to your instructions for only $13.00 $11.05/page I shall have to dig it out and read for myself now. By contrast, in Unlocking the Air, history is being made in the present by the active/passive participation of many soft faces with shining eyes, soft little breasts and stomachs and thighs protected only by bits of cloth. The softness of the crowd is contrasted with the compact, rock-hard tension of the palace of power, a bomb [] if it exploded it would burst with horrible violence, hurling pointed shards of stone. In Le Guins own rendition of Lao Tzus Tao Te Ching, she writes: This is called the small dark light: pic.twitter.com/y6yrNX8hUq, The Outlaw Jonesy Wales (@Bonesdrawstuff) May 16, 2021. This intercontinental link is especially important because of Le Guins persistent motif of the essential interweaving of all humanity. Le Guin, who passed in 2018, was a brilliant science fiction and fantasy writer who built entire worlds based on concepts of Taoism, feminism, and transformation. Unless they do plan to come back, as you say, I have given this story to some of my English students, and it certainly provides food for thought. Arent they still turning a blind eye to it? February 2023 social media discussions about the release of the gameHogwarts Legacy renewed interest in commentary about RowlingsHarry Potter books by author Ursula Le Guin. Month of Title In one of her poems from the collection Sixty Odd, Le Guin describes this essential relationship between the contemplation of history and the decisions of the present: We make too much History. The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin by Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) The Compass Rose by Ursula K. Le Guin. [2] This is a term from Le Guins list Some Genres I Write in, which appears in the collection Unlocking the Air as well as on her website: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/AlternateTitles.html, [3] George Steiners discussion involves Ezra Pounds imaginative (re)constructions of China in Cathay, which, according to Steiner, is fundamentally a Western invention of China.. Berkeley: Berkeley Publishing Group, 1979. Ive recently re-read Ursula Le Guins most famous novels, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969) and The Dispossessed (1974) the former for the first time in, yeeesh, I dont want to think about how long. Writers can get ideas from the strangest of places. A shame, in a way, given that so many of her themes invite it. Public opinion! Year of Title Art by Salvador Dal from a rare 1969 edition of Alice in Wonderland. Essays and criticisms. This collection of mainstream stories, which have been published in such distinguished magazines as The New Yorker, Omni, Harper's, and Playboy, is a stunning example of the virtuosity of the legendary Ursula K. Le Guin.. Publisher She suggests that this is because modern authors moved away from uses of POV in Victorian fiction such as narrators breaking the fourth wall to address the reader and share asides or moralize. She has also written poetry and essays. The philosophy of Utilitarianism, often expressed as the greatest happiness for the greatest number, is relevant here, too. 2nd ed. delivered 22 May 1983, Mills College, Oakland, California. "A writer either speaks to adults and bores kids, or speaks to kids and upsets adults." - Ursula K Le Guin "You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it." - Ursula K Le Guin "A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended." - Ursula K Le Guin "There are no right answers to wrong questions." And in Unlocking the Air, set in 1991, the young Orsinians debate the potential consequences of the onset of market capitalism and consumerism for the future of their country. Publicity had clearly been lacking. Similarly, Orsinias location, history, and geology are ever changing. In Le Guin's work, the most vital futuresometimes the most fatal toowas always the one we had made, not a then or a later, but a thrumming and frightening now. This idea of the essential balance all creatures depend on is a belief Le Guin derives from the Taoism that influences all of her writing. The narrator tells us that the people of Omelas are not simple folk, but they are happy. The first two maps and drawings are copyrighted to the Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust. Save The Cat! Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin at the best online prices at eBay! After graduating from Radcliffe College and Columbia University, she won a Fulbright scholarship to pursue her PhD in France. The passage connects the events of European history with Orsinia as it exists in 1991 and with the events in the novel Malafrena, where the protagonists take part in a 19tth century Orsinian nationalist uprising against Austro-Hungarian rule. Masterworks) by Ursula K. Le Guin (indirect) Each of the Orsinian Tales is dated at the end, but the overall arrangement in the 1976 collection does not follow the actual internal chronology. In other words, he has power over you. Would that be morally acceptable, or would it not, rather, strike us as morally repugnant? In his essay The Moral Philosopher and the Moral Life, James wrote: Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fouriers and Bellamys and Morriss utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torture, what except a sceptical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain? Of course, we all know where that got the Carthaginians, once they lost the Punic Wars against the Roman Empire. There is music, and singing, and the clanging of bells. it's actually your civic duty to share Ursula le Guin's casually devastating, icily astute take down of the harry potter novels whenever you see it | Twitter, Hogwarts Legacy game comes out as online debate continues, Hogwarts Legacys Steam Forums Are A Mess Right Now, This review absolutely nails why you shouldnt pick up Hogwarts Legacy, Reporter Evan Lambert Arrested While Covering Ohio Train Derailment, The NFL Invokes Pat Tillmans Name at the Super Bowl But Ignores How He Died. Elisabeth Le Guin is a writer, musician, and professor of musicology. as the body holds the soul Humans have often been unable to balance the past, the present, and the future; often one dominates or overwhelms the others. Tag In the fictional city of Omelas, the inhabitants seem to live happy and fulfilling lives. There are several reasons for its uncanny verisimilitude. over the hard, the strong. First, as I have already mentioned, it shifts the chronological center so as to suggest that it is incidental, that the center can be and is any or all of the stories, or even the gaps between them. She was at the forefront of the gradual recognition of science fiction and fantasy as serious literature, worthy of careful study and scrupulous critical attention. Likewise set in Orsinia was her first published short story, An Die Musik, which later became one of the collected Orsinian Tales, a book compiled and arranged by the author in 1976, after she had made a name for herself in the genres of fantasy and science fiction. Maps of Gethen. We have discussed the key themes of Le Guins story here. Ursula K. Le Guin has had the pleasure of seeing many adaptations arise from her books. According to this philosophy,opposites are not mutually exclusive, but complementary. UKL: I have no great opinion of it. Enter your email address to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts by email. click for pdf. Although the narrator confesses to lacking detailed knowledge of the laws and rules of Omelas, they suspect there are relatively few. Her words about her work, the way she spoke about herself without apologizing, made me try harder, and reach higher. Therefore, the whole series, or rather the cycle, has multiple access points. Like spring like the lambs in spring. Its an easy, library-quality catalog. As we remarked at the beginning of this analysis, Le Guin herself described The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas as a psychomyth, and a good myth always attracts new meanings and resonances to it of which its original author would have been unaware. Not what it is in our real world, not a critique of any particular incarnation of, but what it, as a practice and human experience, can be, what it is capable of. Thanks to Curiosity Stream for sponsoring this season of Sci Fi! Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. In real life, all three of Le Guins brothers fought in World War Two. A finely crafted ring that looked like it was made of platinum, and had a sizeable lapis lazuli cut into it. Is the only cure. And thats precisely what our society is doing! Snag a book from over 2000 early-release books every month. Some of the most remarkable (and remarkably underappreciated) elements of Le Guins Orsinian cycle are her treatment of time and chronology, her experiments with the idea of interconnectedness, and her imaginative placement of herself (as a character and as the omniscient narrator), with her deeply-held Taoist view of the universe, in Orsinia. This was a way of exorcising the sins of the society: people could believe themselves purged through the ritual of the scapegoat, because their sins would be, if not forgiven, then driven out of town, on the back of that goat. And this, the narrator tells us, is the dirty, dark, unpleasant secret that ensures the happiness of the rest of the city of Omelas: the rest of the city can only function if this one child is kept in abominable misery all the time. Dr. Kereth, the protagonist in The Fountains, feels a close affinity with the French and claims the history of France as his own heritage. Not from vested authority, there isnt any. But nobody ever does. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin 158,608 ratings, 4.09 average rating, 13,106 reviews The Left Hand of Darkness Quotes Showing 1-30 of 399 "It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness tags: goals , journey , travel 3006 likes Like Plot & Structure by James Scott Bell. Orsinian Tales can be stand-alone, readable separately, in any order. As one of the successor states after World War I, Orsinia would have had a short respite of true nationhood before being overwhelmed again by Hitler, and then by Stalin. These moments of atonement with nature, with humanity, with history, and with time, are fleeting but important to the balance of human experience. Her mother is a beautiful goddess-like woman whom her husband calls Freya. Envisioningwithout feara time when one did not and will not exist, one might take comfort in this thought, as, apparently, did Ursula Le Guin and sometimes her characters. ISBN As the examples above demonstrate, it is not geography or history as such that are important in the Orsinian tales and elsewhere in Le Guins works, but geography and history as they connect the characters lives, because, as James Bittner puts it, relationships, not discrete things, are the subject of all of Le Guins fiction. And Warren Rochelle writes that Le Guins vision is of human communities of the heart. That is why, according to Bittner, the actual geographical boundaries of Orsinia are meant to be fluid and undefinable. From a cursory glance of the Steam discussions, there was one transphobic or defensive comment every one or two pages. But there would be misery. Another factor is that the Orsinian texts do not fit neatly into the genres and literary categories where Le Guin has achieved prominence. Another reason for Orsinias verisimilitude is that Le Guins tales reflect the authors deep understanding and imaginative reach in recreating the psychological conditions of a small Eastern European country, conditions which serve as the backdrop for the lives of her Orsinian characters. The self of each person is the sum of his/her memories, both personal, and collective. We located it in a February 9 2004 interview with Le Guin published by The Guardian: Q: Nicholas Lezard has written Rowling can type, but Le Guin can write. What do you make of this comment in the light of the phenomenal success of the Potter books? Hardcover. The unadmitted, inadmissible government that rules the Odonian society by stifling the individual mind.. Published by Very slowly burning, the big forest tree. Sign in to access subscriber-only content and to manage your account, The Center for the Study of Technology and Society. However, her marriage to historian Charles Le Guin put . There would not be slums like this, if the Revolution prevailed. Now that the game has launched, Steam users have been posting 2-3 pages of comments every minute or so. Perhaps this was unavoidable, as Valve only moderates Steam forums if users flag problematic content. However, history is often used as a weapon, an excuse, or a justification for perpetuating interpersonal and international violence. "Mountain Ways" won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award, which is now called the Otherwise Award. I sense their departure is permanent, and that they simply refuse to take part in the skewed moral setup of Omelas. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our. A Left-Handed Commencement Address. Its a neat irony. Ursula K. Le Guin published twenty-two novels, eleven volumes of short stories, four collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation, and has received many awards: Hugo, Nebula, National Book Award, PEN-Malamud, etc. Whole Earth Review 85 (Spring 1995), p. 76. Furthermore, and importantly, the European world of Orsinia expands to other continents, as well. For Le Guin, the question is whether we accept a social order that is effectively designed to exacerbate misery, waste, and cruelty, or whether we will choose one that makes domination more difficult for the Sabuls of the world. The Orsinian Tales form a similar interconnected cycle, which also includes, as I mentioned earlier, the novel Malafrena. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas is one of Ursula K. Le Guins best-known stories, and it has the force of a modern myth: indeed, Le Guin herself, in her note to the story, used the term psychomyth to describe it. The circulating quote was correctly attributed, and it originated with an interview Le Guin did withThe Guardian in 2004. New York: Bantam, 1978. But this raises an intriguing question: are they still complicit, even though they walk away? Boys and girls ride horses. Id like to hear your opinion of JK Rowlings writing style. Ursula Le Guin's short story "She Unnames Them" is easy to read at around 1,000 words, but there's a lot of meaning to uncover in it. Phd in France dual quality of time as both cyclical and linear appear as symbols in the landscapes... Important because of Le Guins brothers fought in World War two as both and. 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