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Di Prima made her poetic debut with the collection This Kind of Bird Flies Backward (1958). For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. She is survived by her husband and five children, who all went on to creative endeavors of their own, getting into TV and radio, music and literature: Jeanne DiPrima of Bozeman, Mont. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. A new collection of jokes, humorous anecdotes, cartoons and graphics about Quakers. I hope you Ashbury Medical Legal Associates. Conjugao Documents Dicionrio Dicionrio Colaborativo Gramtica Expressio Reverso Corporate. Di Prima moved to San Francisco in 1968 and got involved with the Diggers a group of anti-capitalist activists and actors who handed out free food in the community. Di Prima was born Aug. 6, 1934, in Brooklyn, raised in the Italian-American neighborhood of Carroll Gardens. She wrote about her romantic and literary explorations in Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years (2001). A public tribute is being planned. But she described maternal responsibilities as imposing on her life the discipline that made writing possible. It took her three trains to get there from Carroll Gardens by subway, she said, but she was always early for school. Her marriage with Marlowe didnt last, and in 1973 they were divorced. . Wow From the 1960s on she worked as a photographer and a collage artist, and in the last decade or so of her life she took up watercolor painting. Im more concerned with the fact that I have about 50 more books I have to get out.. globe on this gutted Closed TuesWed. A new edition of her work shows that we are still fighting the same battles as di Prima. I can still feel its sting half a century later. In addition to her commitment to literature, di Prima was a co-founder of the San Francisco Institute of Magical and Healing Arts, where she taught Western spiritual traditions. The Floating Piers stato concepito per la prima volta da Christo e Jeanne-Claude nel 1970. Publications [] Poetry [] This Kind of Bird Flies Backward. Danny Rosen, Neeli Cherkovski, Jessica Loos, Scott Bird & Friends!! I dont think about it as a legacy, she said. touched me for the first time, to the still tender skin of the In time, she became a Zen Buddhist. now, and my brother is spearheading a movement to rename the small park on Page Dianne dedicated California when I was eleven so she could study with Roshi. my own skin. She told The Chronicle her grandfather spoke Italian to her and taught her to be an anarchist, a political leaning she supported ever after. Former Managing Partner at Haight Ashbury Medical Legal Associates Studied Humanites at New College of California Went to Berkeley High Went to Drew School Jeanne's mother is Dianne DiPrima, a beat poet and early Suzuki student. Her father Francis was a lawyer, and her mother Emma (ne Mallozzi) was a teacher. Diane Di Prima was an anarchist feminist Beatnik poet, who died this past weekend at 86, in San Francisco. She and a group of eight girls, including future feminist poet Audre Lorde, would meet each morning before class to read aloud the poetry theyd written the day before. Di Prima was known for her activism, having been exposed early on to political consciousness by her grandfather, Domenico, as detailed in her memoir Recollections of My Life as a Woman; she also discusses this in a 2001 interview with David Hadbawnik. She continued writing poetry every day until the final two weeks of her life, calling up the creative forces that powered the Beat movement. Baraka died in 2014. The poetics program at New College did not last, but di Prima continued teaching, at the San Francisco Art Institute and California College of the Arts. In 2017, the Washington Post asked her if Kerouac's comments were indicative of the sexism in the Beat scene. City Lights, the venerable San Francisco bookseller and publisher co-founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, describes her collection Revolutionary Letters (1971) as a series of poems composed of a potent blend of utopian anarchism and ecological awareness, projected through a Zen-tinged feminist lens., Her work is the expression of a strong, sensitive, intelligent woman during more than two decades of social and artistic ferment, reads an entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Can you imagine never was, uncounted caves She has always written by hand., She was named San Francisco poet laureate in 2009, and in 2011 was the subject of a 30-minute documentary film titled The Poetry Deal.. . [15][16] She was battling several health issues such as Parkinson's disease and Sjgren syndrome. Ecco che si stava finalmente realizzando la parte iniziale del grande sogno di Jeanne. Still she wrote poetry every day and had several book projects going even as she was moved to San Francisco General Hospital, where she died. Your email address will not be published. . a poet here No matter what I will be a poet, she recalled thinking, describing in her memoir the sense of purpose of which she was possessed. Di Prima announced her Bay Area arrival with the publication of Memoirs of a Beatnik. This caused a stir in the male-dominated Beat poetry community because in the first few pages, di Prima described her sexual adventures in terms far more graphic than anything published by any of the men. In the late 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California. There is so much I want to ask you, so much that needs to be said. She had earlier written the startlingly erotic Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969), which had autobiographical elements but was more novel than memoir. In her poem Song for Baby-O, Unborn she wrote: Ms. di Primas subsequent marriages to Alan Marlowe and Grant Fisher ended in divorce. They are, if you look close, times when the boundary between mythology and everyday life is blurred, she wrote in her 2001 memoir, Recollections of My Life as a Woman. This meeting of world and myth is where we all thought we were going.. Bright & natural lifestyle photographer in Winston-Salem, NC. felt such a sense of family among the students. I am leaving the houses I will never own. (G. E. on the Navaho Christo & Jeanne Claude - "The Floating Piers - Lake Iseo, Italy 2014-2016" carta d'arte firmata a mano e incorniciata con tessuto . The blended family moved to Marshall, in West Marin, where they rented a ramshackle house on stilts on Tomales Bay for $100 a month. But she grew disillusioned with New York and in 1968 made her way to San Francisco to work with the Diggers, a collective known for street theater and for passing out free food and leaflets. [13] In her memoir, di Prima describes seeing her grandfather speak at a rally in the park, writing: "I am proud of him, and afraid, but mostly amazed. www.diprimaphotography.com/blog/fall-mini-sessions-2022 Posts Reels Tagged Introduction and notes adapted from interviews with Diane di Prima. A Great, Substantive Read: Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the Return of the Lost Cause Censorship, nd the Need for Real Debate on Black Issues in America, AFSC-DEI Tuesday Update: Someone Didnt Get The Memo. She continued writing poetry every day until the final two weeks of her life, calling up the creative forces that powered the Beat movement. secretly wishes you did, if what you want In 1994, I featured Diane and her daughter, Dominique, in Wordland, a monthly massive literary show held in the auditorium of San Franciscos Womens Building. Di Prima ended up dropping out of college after one year and went to Greenwich Village, where she found a flat for $33 a month. . She published an early prose work titled Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969). When we met in 1990, reading together onstage in San Franciscos Mission District, we liked each other immediately. to mate in, my scorpio, bright love She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. but I can show you This story was originally published at washingtonpost.com. . She went on to win a citywide competition for excellence in Latin and earned a scholarship to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania to major in physics, according to her younger brother, Frank DiPrima, a lawyer in Morristown, N.J. She was absolutely brilliant in every field she studied, said DiPrima, who noted his sister chose to spell her last name differently to correct a misspelling from when their grandparents arrived at Ellis Island from Italy. kills brain cells, whose subliminal ads A calling. How Progressive Quaker activism helped change America. One of the poems Ms. di Prima read at the event celebrating her appointment as San Franciscos poet laureate was The Poetry Deal, written in 1993. all sizes & shapes, O may it be various Currently you have JavaScript disabled. Di Prima has two younger brothers, Frank (born November 6, 1937) and Richard (born September 19, 1941) who . ; Dominique DiPrima of Los Angeles; Rudi DiPrima of Richmond; Alexander Marlowe of Melbourne, Australia; and Tara Marlowe of San Francisco. seeking always to help me find the quiet, inner expression of the joy in Diane di Prima, a poet and writer who was regarded as the most significant female member of the Beat Generation, the male-dominated countercultural movement of the 1950s to which she lent her feminist, sometimes anarchist sensibility, died Oct.25 at a hospital in San Francisco. Required fields are marked *. yourself short, remember document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. In 2009, Di Prima was named the Poet Laureate of San Francisco. None of this matters really. In 1961 she was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear. most complete, utter love I have ever known. leaving the quiet unquestioned living and dying, the simple one-love-and-marriage, children, material pleasures, easy securities. Ms. di Prima wrote about her romantic and literary explorations in Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years, published in 2001. I remember sewing your priests robe under the auspices of Though in honesty, my dear friend, that Conversation becomes less and On September 24th, 2018, a fake blog was created to be used as a citation for the page, consisting of a fictional interview in which di Prima reads a poem about worms. I wont promise Join us for a poetry reading featuring Danny Rosen of Lithic Press! was tattooed with their profound love. In 1967 she moved to California for good. breaking I sewed my rakusu when I was 12 (1969), and I got so spend those amazing and will always be. [1], She attended academically elite Hunter College High School where she became part of a small group of friends including classmate Audre Lorde who formed a sort of Dead Poets Society calling themselves the Branded. They cut class to roam the city, hanging out in bookstores, sharing their own poetry and holding sances for dead poets.[3]. . Jeanne Di Prima (Daughter) SPOUSE. . Three years later, City Lights released The Poetry Deal, her first full-length book of poetry in decades. We just kept falling in love over and over again.. Diane di Prima City Lights Books ISBN-13 9780872867611. He was probably hoping to get laid later.). By the early 1980s, di Prima had divorced Fisher and met Sheppard Powell, an energy healer and meditation teacher. I was first knocked over by his intellect and insight when I found his 1993 article that Friends, Like so many institutions, AFSC and its managers dont seem to cotton to outside media examination. The Bronzer Saga Continues? can feed you pills to keep you weak, or sterile, - thanks for sending them Jeanne, LETTER TO JEANNE (at Tassajara) At her second apartment in Hells Kitchen, she met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, who needed a place to stay on their way out of the country. way. (his hands had come to rest back on my shoulders and as he She and Marlowe had a son, Alexeander Marlowe, and a daughter, Tara Marlowe. It has been a long, strange journey. Ms. di Prima moved in 1968 to San Francisco, where she joined the Diggers, an anarchist group in the Haight-Ashbury district that provided free food, clothes and theater to the poor, and continued her writing. heart of your warmth, my girl, as you step out The family statement announcing her death described her as a devout Buddhist. Sometimes, The things I now leave behind . old. Beat belongs to the great American counterculture.. Jeanne di Prima, 1991-1992 Item Box: 1 How to Cite; University of Louisville Archives and Special Collections Diane di Prima papers (2019_003) Correspondence Incoming 23. You can read more about our, A guide to military vehicles used in the Russia-Ukraine war, Half-marathon blocked an organ delivery, so a surgeon sprinted into the race, A condition called POTS rose after COVID, but patients cant find care, Pennsylvania unseals search warrant in Idaho killings, Justice Jackson writes 1st Supreme Court majority opinion. She continued writing poetry every day until the final two weeks of her life, calling up the creative forces that powered the Beat movement. [1] She was a second generation American of Italian descent. allowed to work on it. There she wrote and published several volumes of verse, and helped to found the American Theatre for Poets. baby . Dull respect of dull neighbors. But her Beat period was only the beginning; over her long career Ms. di Prima published some 50 poetry books and chapbooks. In 2009, Di Prima was appointed Poet Laureate of San Francisco. The holiest life that was offered in our world. By her actions, she declared herself a conscientious objector to the bourgeois life of her childhood, quitting college because it distracted her from her artistic pursuits and making a name for herself, first in New York and later in San Francisco, amid the tumult of the counterculture. di Prima, Diane, and Jones, LeRoi [Imanu Amiri Baraka], eds. It might have pleased Diane di Prima that we can't get our hands on her "Revolutionary Letters" by capitulating to the rapacity of Amazon Prime. No matter what I will be [a] poet, she recalled thinking, describing in her memoir the sense of purpose of which she was possessed. This page was last edited on 19 December 2022, at 06:37. Marie was born in 1590, in Louargat, 22135, Ctes d'Armor, Bretagne, France. She was born in Brooklyn, and grew up in the Italian enclave of Carroll Gardens. . over the Hudson, wind in the Berkshire pines [4] She spent some time in California at Stinson Beach and Topanga Canyon, returned to New York City, and eventually moved to San Francisco permanently. Through a brilliant outpouring of poetry and prose, in such books as Memoirs of a Beatnik, Revolutionary Letters, Recollections Of My Life As A Woman, and LOBA, she became one of the few Women who attained canonization in the largely male Beat cosmos. A French publisher, Maurice Girodias, had contracted her to write an erotic take on the Beat era, and, as the Tribune article noted, Girodias kept sending back the manuscript, scrawled with notations for more sex, and di Prima obliged with fictionalized passages of erotic acrobatics. Yet the book attained cult status as a rare feminist window onto a period when men got most of the attention and sexism was much in evidence. me that at times threatened to overwhelm me. Ms. di Prima had five children including one with LeRoi Jones, the influential African American poet later known as Amiri Baraka while publishing her writings, co-founding with Jones a mimeographed literary newsletter, the Floating Bear, and pursuing the self-discovery that the freedoms of the counterculture promised. Join our mailing list and get the word on news, events, and all things Beat Generation and beyond! Buddha.) It has been a long, strange journey. Di Prima had also made a documentary "The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima" in association with filmmaker Melanie La Rosa. A calling. Ms. di Prima attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania in the early 1950s but, to her parents horror, dropped out and moved to Greenwich Village. For Ms. di Prima, the author of more than 40 works of poetry, prose and theater, writing was like being a hermit or a samurai. your dreams, degrees from universities which are nothing Yet, Diane was pure. The things I now leave behind . She was so present, so connective, so aware. She was a great sister and anytime I had academic problems in high school, she was there for me.. on these new, jagged hills, SONG TO BABY-O, UNBORN to sacrifice the planet for a few years of some She was 86. threw me around the world, and taught me how to find plenty in every situation, The Beat movement, epitomized by the works of such writers as Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, was largely a male preserve, although it did make room for female poets including Joanne Kyger and Anne Waldman. shoot germs into your kids, while Merck & Co. This event was originally broadcast live via Zoom and hosted by Peter Marav Japan just to teach us the proper way to sew these garments of Photo: Chris Stewart / Chronicle file photo, Photo: Nancy Stone / Knight-Ridder Tribune, Feeling burned out? Your purchase supports the Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco. Prima di fare un'offerta Accedi o Crea un account gratuito. Plaudits, bouquets, puff pieces for their pet programs? Her aunt is [NOTE: On Garrison Keillors Substack, theres a feature called the Back Room, on which he posts odds and ends from his decades of work. She was married to Alan Marlowe in 1962 (divorced 1969) and in 1972 to Grant Fisher (divorced 1975). Diane di Prima's political poetry took on America's oppressive power structures while her activism made her a target for the FBI. Quel giorno non mi hai solo spezzato il cuore. For Ms. di Prima, the author of more than 40 works of poetry, prose and theater, writing was like being a hermit or a samurai. drag queen biography a worthy addition to the citys queer history tomes, Remembering S.F. . Ms. di Prima attended Hunter College High School in Manhattan and stayed three semesters at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania before leaving to join the Greenwich Village scene. She experimented sexually and with drugs and lived for a period at a commune in Millbrook, N.Y., led by Timothy Leary, who promoted use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD. Quelli in cui speravo. to break your heart . I am leaving the houses I will never own. In November 2017, a user of Wikipedia added the Activism section to the page, consisting of fictional stories such as di Prima having "watched an obese homeless man get beaten by a group of children" and falsely insisting that di Prima was an outspoken fat acceptance movement advocate and Worms Armageddon fan. Here it is, along with an excerpt from her obituary in the Washington Post: if what you want is jobs I only had to sit for three days not five. Per prima cosa dopo aver pulito in profondit il volto con una mousse detergente delicata e adatta alla propria cute, . About Danny Rosen Each morning Danny pees on the bank of the largest unnamed tributary to the East Branch of Big Salt Wash which flows into the Colorado River several miles below Fruita, Colorado. In New York, she absorbed influences from jazz music to avant-garde stage works and helped found the New York Poets Theatre. Diane di Prima, feminist writer, poet, and teacher, was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 6, 1934. Therefore, she wrote in "Recollections," "the child I bore" Jeanne di Prima would be mine and mine alone." . Scoprite gratuitamente l'albero genealogico di Jeanne , JEANNETTE-MARIE de BEAUFFORT per sapere tutto sulle sue origini e la sua storia familiare. For many years, she taught in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute in Boulder. Di Prima died Sunday morning at the age of 86 at a hospital in San Francisco, her brother Frank DiPrima confirmed to NPR. In October 2017, di Prima was first hospitalized and moved to a care center. Carpets. Examines the strategy & tactics, successes & failures, history & future of faith-based work to end war, and to dismantle militarism and the repression it has spawned. The bristles were her way of protecting her [citation needed], From 1980 to 1987, di Prima taught Hermetic and esoteric traditions in poetry, in a short-lived but significant Masters-in-Poetics program at New College of California,[11] which she established together with poets Robert Duncan and David Meltzer. La Jolla, California: Laurence McGilvery, 1973. She never found a keyboard useful for poetry, said Powell. Di Prima's Memoirs of a Beatnik was a highly sexualized fictional account of the poet's time with the Beats. summers at Tassajara because Diane knew that Roshi had something she wanted. could be gruff, and somewhat aloof. Jeanne was treated as an adult, followed the same schedule as everyone. DI PRIMA, she recalled Kerouac shouting, UNLESS YOU FORGET ABOUT YOUR BABYSITTER, YOURE NEVER GOING TO BE A WRITER., (Asked years later about the incident, Ms. di Prima said that she did not attribute Kerouacs comment to sexism. . table one way or the other, enough to feed everybody. freeways, you are still Last summer I visited her at the S.F. Yoshida Roshi. In her poem Song for Baby-O, Unborn she wrote: Di Primas subsequent marriages to Alan Marlowe and Grant Fisher ended in divorce. While suffering from arthritis, di Prima continued to write. felt his closeness, as all my life Roshi was never farther from me than allowed me to begin sitting and studying tea ceremony with Okusan at 12 years .". Nota: Tutto di te un romanzo gay (M/M) autoconclusivo di seconde occasioni. I am leaving the houses I will never own. Across Highway 1 from her home was a shed that di Prima converted to a writing studio. Di Prima first came to San Francisco in 1961 to visit poet Michael McClure, whom she had met in New York. of lies, so you too can go forth La skincare viso di Jeanne Damas l'inspo francese che aspettavamo. what it means, if what you want is housing, Me lo hai schiacciato, cazzo. From 1974 to 1997, di Prima taught poetry at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics,[4] of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, sharing the program with fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman (co-founders of the program), William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, and others. [1] Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen. Its not a generation, she wrote in her poem Keep the Beat., Its a state of mind . In her memoir, she recalled a Beat party in New York, with alcohol and marijuana readily available, which Ms. di Prima left at 11:30p.m. to tend to her daughter. Jeanne Francesconi, prima di diventare la moglie del cavalier ingegner Vincenzo Carla, non sapeva che avrebbe amato cos tanto la cucina fino a farla diventare una ragione di vita.Nata il 12 . The family statement announcing her death described her as a devout Buddhist. She experimented sexually and with drugs and lived for a period at a commune in Millbrook, N.Y., led by Timothy Leary, who promoted use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD. She This article was published more than2 years ago. free psychiatric help for everyone The things I now leave behind . . A poet and publisher, Gottesman founded Omerta Press, releasing numerous books from San Francisco writers, including Diane di Prima and Herb Gold. These are some poems from Revolutionary Letters, she said before a reading in 2014. She published an early prose work titled Memoirs of a Beatnik (1969). DiPrima, a beat poet and early Suzuki student. I know I am utterly safe Her deepest service, she added, was to poetry and to humans. allowed to work on it. Ms. di Primas subsequent marriages to Alan Marlowe and Grant Fisher ended in divorce. tiny, loving hands that were constantly patting me, smoothing down my Jack Kerouac, also a guest, shouted, "Di Prima, unless you forget about your babysitter, you're never going to be a writer.". One verse goes like this: Id like my daily bread howeveryou arrange it, and Id also liketo be bread, or sustenance forsome others even after Ive left.A song they can walk a trail with. 1 through No. He then places his hands on each of my ears, and at once While attending Hunter College High School, she and a circle of other girls, which included a young Audre Lorde, would meet before school to share their poetry. In her poem Song for Baby-O, Unborn she wrote: I wont promise not quite what one would choose David Levi Strauss, a writer and teacher who was part of Ms. di Primas circle in San Francisco in the 1980s, studying with her in the Poetics Program at New College of California, recalled how seriously she took the craft. Jeanne Morvan (born Prima) was born in 1615, to Vincent Prima and Marie Genevive Prima (born Quelen). Members of the White Panthers and Black Panthers were coming and going all the time, and by the fall of 1969, she says, the FBI was knocking on the door every day. or Indian, or Jap, or PR, where Dick Loba, an epic poem published in installments beginning in 1973, centers on a wolf goddess and is often described as the female answer to Ginsbergs Howl (1955). She rented a flat at Laguna and Page streets, this time for $330 a month. Be great, whatever that means . Dull respect of dull neighbors. 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Its just that its very much of one time, a long time ago. Before an audience of 400, Diane and Dominique performed a mother-daughter trade-off of poetry and rap lyrics that brought the audience to its feet, dancing. She is also survived by five grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; and her brothers, Richard DiPrima of Madison, Wis., and Frank DiPrima of Morristown, N.J. My mom was fearless, Dominique DiPrima, a talk radio host and activist, told The Chronicle. I felt so important and so connected to everyone when I was In his amazing first book, he way overdid the self-deprecation: Goatwalking is a book for saddlebag or backpack to live . forever. like your eyes turned sideways at us The Di Prima mss., 1956-1972, consists of the correspondence and writings of Diane Di Prima, 1934- , poet and editor. The intention of the whole course of study in the Poetics Program was to give students an intellectual base to build on, and sources that they could draw on for the rest of their lives as writers.. breaking Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, where she participated in the emerging Beat movement. Tradues em contexto de "Casa di Jeanne" en italiano-portugus da Reverso Context : 700 m: Casa di Jeanne d'Arc. An early influence on her political sensibilities was her immigrant grandfather, who, di Prima once told the Chicago Tribune, brought over anarchism and a sense of poetry as belonging to everyone., He would say that everyone had read Dante, she recalled, and I pictured all the housewives reading Dante.. Your weekly guide to Bay Area arts & entertainment. In 1961 she was a founder of the New York Poets Theater, which staged works by poets and avant-garde writers. Its not a generation, she wrote in her poem Keep the Beat. Its a state of mind . Its not a generation, she wrote in her poem Keep the Beat., Its a state of mind . Since 1981: Quaker stuff, civil rights and other issues, hopeless causes, jokes, photos, stories. The press embraced a do-it-yourself aesthetic. It was also around that time that she began to study Sanskrit and Buddhism. Di Prima then went on to Swarthmore College before dropping out to be a poet in Manhattan. "And it's all right, even if you're old and gray, 'Cuz it's all right, you still got something to say . . The other was to study Buddhism under Suzuki Roshi, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center. Here Kerouac had died in 1969, Burroughs and Ginsberg in 1997. [8] In 1966, she spent some time at Millbrook with Timothy Leary's psychedelic community.[9]. Jeanne di Prima, 1991-1992 Entire Series: This series, one of the largest in the collection, dates from di Prima's college years (1951-1953) through 1992. . There is so much I want to ask you, so much that needs to be said. 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