Its charge to each; and if the seal is set. God dawn'd on Chaos; in its stream immers'd. The spoilers tempt no second blow. Life's early cup with such a draught of woe? One Hour stays to talk to Asia, and Asia questions him as to who he is. The Earth interrupts and describes "The joy, the triumph, the delight, the madness!/ The boundless, overflowing, bursting gladness,/ The vapourous exultation not to be confined! The soft sky smiles, the low wind whispers near: No more let Life divide what Death can join together. The breath whose might I have invok'd in song. Why shipwrecks have engaged the poetic imagination for centuries. A heart grown cold, a head grown gray in vain; Nor, when the spirit's self has ceas'd to burn. It is inspired by the classical Prometheia, a trilogy of plays attributed to Aeschylus. What softer voice is hush'd over the dead? [30] Panthea describes to Asia how life for her and Ione has changed since Prometheus's fall and how she came to know of Prometheus's love in a dream. Within the twilight chamber spreads apace, The shadow of white Death, and at the door. To spill the venom when thy fangs o'erflow; Remorse and Self-contempt shall cling to thee; Hot Shame shall burn upon thy secret brow. A song fills the air singing the "Life of Life", a song about the power of love. The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify English Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. Their garlands sere, their magic mantles rent; Over his living head like Heaven is bent, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song. Analysis of Shelley’s Adonais By Nasrullah Mambrol on April 10, 2021 • ( 0 ) Written and published on October 4, 1821, “Adonais” memorializes the death of Shelley’s friend and fellow poet John Keats, whom he regarded as being one of the poets of “the highest genius” of the age. The silence of that heart's accepted sacrifice. Or hadst thou waited the full cycle, when. Analysis of John Milton’s Paradise Lost By Nasrullah Mambrol on July 12, 2020 • ( 0). "[26], Although Mercury admits to pitying Prometheus, he is bound to oppose Prometheus who stands against Jupiter. "The Father-Son Conflict in, This page was last edited on 28 January 2021, at 23:02. In the minds of those who consider that magnificent fiction with a religious feeling it engenders something worse. What deaf and viperous murderer could crown. As long as skies are blue, and fields are green. The word "recall" in this sense means both to remember and to retract, and Prometheus, by forgiving Jupiter, removes Jupiter's power, which all along seems to have stemmed from his opponents' anger and will to violence. Prometheus requests the Hour to take Ione, with the conch shell of Proteus, over the earth so she can "breathe into the many-folded shell, Losing its mighty music; it shall be/ As thunder mingled with clear echoes: then/ Return; and thou shalt dwell besides our cave. Oblivion as they rose shrank like a thing reprov'd. [39], Asia declares that Demogorgon's answer is the same as that her own heart had given her, and then asks when Prometheus will be freed. Demogorgon cries out "Behold!" However, Shelley's version of Jupiter is unable to overwhelm the will of Prometheus, and Shelley gives the power of reason and conscience to his God: the Unseen Power of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty. Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal, which must glow. He proclaims himself to be Jupiter's child and more powerful than Jupiter. Asia tells of her current state and describes, "Realms where the air we breathe is love,/ Which in the winds on the waves doth move,/ Harmonizing this earth with what we feel above. [73] However, he, like Rossetti, tended to differ from Mary Shelley when it came to punctuation and capitalisation. Satan is like Prometheus in his struggle against the universe, but Satan loses his heroic aspect after being turned into a serpent who desires only revenge and becomes an enemy to mankind. And of the past are all that cannot pass away. When Shelley wrote Prometheus Unbound, the authorship of the Prometheia and its connection as a trilogy was not in question. Wash'd his light limbs as if embalming them; Another clipp'd her profuse locks, and threw. That Light whose smile kindles the Universe. After all of the furies but one leave, Panthea and Ione despair over Prometheus's tortured body. Until Death tramples it to fragments.—Die. That word, that kiss, shall all thoughts else survive. However, the play is filled with suspense, mystery and other dramatic effects that make it, in theory, performable. Far from these carrion kites that scream below; He wakes or sleeps with the enduring dead; Thou canst not soar where he is sitting now. And scar'd the angel soul that was its earthly guest! And Love taught Grief to fall like music from his tongue. Yet wherefore? Prometheus praises her, but demands that she recalls the curse he laid upon Jupiter. G. G. Foster, in 1845, published the first American edition of Shelley's poems, which relied on both Mary Shelley's edits and her notes. The life and works of Percy Bysshe Shelley exemplify English Romanticism in both its extremes of joyous ecstasy and brooding despair. In other words, while Milton's Satan embodies a spirit of rebellion, and, as Maud Bodkin claims, "The theme of his heroic struggle and endurance against hopeless odds wakens in poet and reader a sense of his own state as against the odds of his destiny",[59] his character is flawed because his aims are not humanistic. To mourn our loss, rouse thy obscure compeers, And teach them thine own sorrow, say: "With me, Forget the Past, his fate and fame shall be. Fond wretch! "Wake thou," cried Misery, "childless Mother, rise. But I am chain'd to Time, and cannot thence depart! What in our analysis we might express as the thought that progress is evil or sinful, would, in the mind of Aeschylus, Abercromer comments, 'more likely be a shadowy relic of loyalty to the tribe' – a vague fear of anything that might weaken social solidarity. It is to be regretted that the errors of the press are so numerous, and in many respects so destructive of the sense of a species of poetry which, I fear, even with this disadvantage, very few will understand or like. When lofty thought. All new successions to the forms they wear; Torturing th' unwilling dross that checks its flight. Thy hopes are gone before: from all things here. When Demogorgon does not respond, Jupiter declares that he shall fight Demogorgon, but as Jupiter moves to attack, the elements refuse to help him and so Jupiter falls. With dew all turn'd to tears; odour, to sighing ruth. Which gave it strength to pierce the guarded wit, With lightning and with music: the damp death. May be eclips'd, but are extinguish'd not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb, And death is a low mist which cannot blot, The brightness it may veil. He claims to have conquered all but the soul of mankind, "which might make/ Our antique empire insecure, though built/ On eldest faith, and hell's coeval, fear". But Prometheus is, as it were, the type of the highest perfection of moral and intellectual nature, impelled by the purest and the truest motives to the best and noblest ends.[58]. Download. "'Mont Blanc' and 'Prometheus Unbound': Shelley's Use of the Rhetoric of Silence. From its own wreck the thing it contemplates; As morning breaks, Prometheus cries out against the "Monarch of Gods and Daemons", Jupiter, and his tyrannous kingship. to which Panthea agreed, and the dream of Prometheus was revealed to Asia. But what was howling in one breast alone. She sate, while one, with soft enamour'd breath. Panthea describes how the spirit was once close to Asia, and Asia and the spirit begin to talk to each other about nature and love. Of deep and liquid rest, forgetful of all ill. Scene II takes place at a river on Atlantis, and Ocean discusses Jupiter's fall with Apollo. Thy spirit's sister, the lorn nightingale. "The Theatre of Shelley". Palms of her tender feet where'er they fell: And barbed tongues, and thoughts more sharp than they. She then proclaims, "And death shall be the last embrace of her/ Who takes the life she gave, even as a mother/ Folding her child, says, 'Leave me not again. The beauty and the joy of their renewed might. Midst others of less note, came one frail Form. Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains. but the pure spirit shall flow. ", De Luca, V. A. The mythological origin of Panthea is uncertain and Ione is usually considered a Nereid. "[44] He commands the gods to drink before saying, "even then/ Two mighty spirits, mingling, made a third/ Mightier than either, which, unbodied now,/ Between us floats, felt, although unbeheld,/ Waiting the incarnation, which ascends... from Demogorgon's throne/ Victory! He had adorn'd and hid the coming bulk of Death. [60] In Milton, God is able to easily overthrow Satan. Wander no more, from kindling brain to brain, But droop there, whence they sprung; and mourn their lot. Through camps and cities rough with stone, and steel, And human hearts, which to her aery tread. Girt round with weakness—it can scarce uplift, Is it not broken? [71] Later, Charles Locock, in his 1911 edition of Shelley's works, speculated: "May we suppose that Mrs. Shelley never made use of that particular list at all? . She then calls forth a spirit, her torch bearer, who would guide Prometheus, Asia, and the others to a temple that was once dedicated to Prometheus and will become their cave to dwell in. that it should be so! "The Style of Millennial Announcement in, Hughes, D. J. He turns to how nature has aided in his torture along with the constant tearing at his flesh by "Heaven's winged hound", the hawks of Jupiter. And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue; And a light spear topp'd with a cypress cone, Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew. Or amorous birds perch'd on the young green spray. Their words are soon repeated by Echoes, which join in telling the two to follow. Essays in Honor of the Bicentenary of Mary Shelley's Birth. The fire for which all thirst; now beams on me. Included with the edition were Mary Shelley's notes on the production and history of Prometheus Unbound. And all the Dreams that watch'd Urania's eyes, And all the Echoes whom their sister's song, Had held in holy silence, cried: "Arise!". Consuming the last clouds of cold mortality. [69], Before his death, Shelley completed many corrections to a manuscript edition of his work, but many of these changes were not carried over into Mary Shelley's edition. while still. They ne'er will gather strength, or find a home again. Pursu'd, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (de casada Mary Shelley; Londres, 30 de agosto de 1797-ibíd, 1 de febrero de 1851) fue una escritora [2] dramaturga, ensayista y biógrafa británica [3] reconocida principalmente por ser la autora de la novela gótica Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo (), [4] considerada la primera novela de ciencia ficción moderna y que logra inaugurar el género. Like a pale flower by some sad maiden cherish'd. Thy spirit should have fill'd its crescent sphere. Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess. Although the scene transitions to the next quickly, the spirits describe Asia's and Panthea's journey and how "There those enchanted eddies play/ Of echoes, music-tongued, which draw,/ By Demogorgon's mighty law,/ With melting rapture, or sweet awe,/ All spirits on that secret way". They have departed; thou shouldst now depart! Taking her advice, Prometheus calls upon the Phantasm of Jupiter, and Ione and Panthea describe the phantasm's appearance soon after. 52 The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.—Die, If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek! "[53] The Moon responds by describing a light which has come from the Earth and penetrates the Moon. Dust to the dust! Why linger, why turn back, why shrink, my Heart? He has outsoar'd the shadow of our night; And that unrest which men miscall delight, From the contagion of the world's slow stain. "The sun comes forth, and many reptiles spawn; A godlike mind soars forth, in its delight, Making earth bare and veiling heaven, and when, It sinks, the swarms that dimm'd or shar'd its light, Leave to its kindred lamps the spirit's awful night.". [9] The fourth act was incomplete by this time, and on 23 December 1819, Shelley wrote to Gisborne, "I have just finished an additional act to 'Prometheus' which Mary is now transcribing, and which will be enclosed for your inspection before it is transmitted to the Bookseller. Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson, Wolfstein, The Murderer; or, The Secrets of a Robber's Cave, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prometheus_Unbound_(Shelley)&oldid=1003426858, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Brisman, Susan Hawk. Which has withdrawn his being to its own; Which wields the world with never-wearied love. [56] The Earth explains how all of the world "Laugh with a vast and inextinguishable laughter". The Earth sings of how man is restored and united: "Man, oh, not men! See Susan Hawk Brisman's. English - Penguin Dictionary Of Literary Terms And Literary Theory The next critical edition was not released until 1839, when Mary Shelley produced her own edition of Shelley's work for Edward Moxon. Whose master's hand is cold, whose silver lyre unstrung. Through time and change, unquenchably the same. Both Percy and Mary Shelley were eager to hear when the book was published, and inquired Gisborne's wife, Thomas Medwin, and John Keats about its release throughout July 1820. Which once he made more lovely: he doth bear, His part, while the one Spirit's plastic stress, Sweeps through the dull dense world, compelling there. Sorrow and fear. The leprous corpse, touch'd by this spirit tender. With sparkless ashes load an unlamented urn. Take, for example, the sense of sin imaginatively revived as we respond to Milton's presentation of Satan, or to the condemnation, suggested by Aeschylus' drama, of the rebellion of Prometheus in effecting the 'progress' of man. Paradise Lost is a poetic rewriting of the book of Genesis. The Earth responds by describing Zoroaster and that there are two realities: the current and the shadow reality that exists "Till death unite them and they part no more". Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow. What form leans sadly o'er the white death-bed. "[51] Panthea then describes how the two melodies are parted, and Ione interrupts by describing a beautiful chariot with a winged infant whose "two eyes are heavens/ Of liquid darkness, which the Deity/ Within seems pouring, as a storm is poured/ From jagged clouds" and "in its hand/ It sways a quivering moon-beam". And his own thoughts, along that rugged way. "[6], Shelley stopped working on the poem following the death of his daughter Clara Everina Shelley on 24 September 1818. Failing this hypothesis, we can only assume that Shelley's 'formidable list' was not nearly so formidable as it might have been". [54] The Earth continues by declaring that man now controls even lightning, and that the Earth has no secrets left from man. And many more, whose names on Earth are dark, But whose transmitted effluence cannot die. ", Pierce, John B. "[8] The play was delayed in publication, because John Gisborne, whom Shelley trusted to go to England with the text, delayed his journey. [7] Shelley also wrote to Leigh Hunt to tell him that the play was finished. Archy's Song from Charles I (A Widow Bird Sate Mourning). Clasp with thy panting soul the pendulous Earth; As from a centre, dart thy spirit's light, Beyond all worlds, until its spacious might, Satiate the void circumference: then shrink. After his death, Timothy Shelley, his father, refused to allow Mary Shelley to publish any of Shelley's poems, which kept any immediate corrected editions of the play from being printed. that what she did use was a preliminary list, – the list which Shelley "hoped to despatch in a day or two" (10 November 1820) – not the "formidable list"... which may in the course of nine years have been mislaid? [11], After they procured a copy, Shelley wrote to the Olliers on 10 November 1820: "Mr. Gisborne has sent me a copy of the 'Prometheus,' which is certainly most beautifully printed. Even to the joyous stars which smile on its despair! Whose sails were never to the tempest given; The massy earth and sphered skies are riven! "Potentiality in 'Prometheus Unbound'. What Adonais is, why fear we to become? Meet mass'd in death, who lends what life must borrow. Or herdsman's horn, or bell at closing day; Since she can mimic not his lips, more dear, Than those for whose disdain she pin'd away. All he had lov'd, and moulded into thought. "Our love, our hope, our sorrow, is not dead; See, on the silken fringe of his faint eyes, Like dew upon a sleeping flower, there lies, A tear some Dream has loosen'd from his brain. Welcoming him we lose with scarce extinguish'd breath. Percy Shelley (1792-1822) wrote a considerable amount of poetry in his short life, as well as penning pamphlets such as The Necessity of Atheism (which got him expelled from Oxford) and ‘A Defence of Poetry’ (which contains his famous declaration that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’). The moral interest of the fable, which is so powerfully sustained by the sufferings and endurance of Prometheus, would be annihilated if we could conceive of him as unsaying his high language and quailing before his successful and perfidious adversary.[15]. With which, like flowers that mock the corse beneath. [5] By April, the majority of the play was completed, and Shelley wrote to Peacock on 6 April 1819: "My Prometheus Unbound is just finished, and in a month or two I shall send it". Cease, ye faint flowers and fountains, and thou Air, Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown, O'er the abandon'd Earth, now leave it bare. From the world's bitter wind. She then describes the nature of death, of war, and faithless faith. He lives, he wakes—'tis Death is dead, not he; Turn all thy dew to splendour, for from thee. Grief made the young Spring wild, and she threw down. That mouth, whence it was wont to draw the breath. [38] She criticises Jupiter for all of the problems of the world: famine, disease, strife and death. Shelley's Prometheus could be loosely based upon the Jesus of the Bible and Christian orthodox tradition, as well as Milton's character of the Son in Paradise Lost. Shelley finishes his "Preface" to the play with an evocation of his intentions as a poet: My purpose has hitherto been simply to familiarize the highly refined imagination of the more select classes of poetical readers with beautiful idealisms of moral excellence; aware that, until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust, although they would bear the harvest of his happiness. Even to the mournful place where Adonais lay. Prometheus Unbound is a four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 1820. Act I begins in the Indian Caucasus where the Titan Prometheus is bound to a rock face and he is surrounded by the Oceanides[16] Panthea and Ione. Exhales itself in flowers of gentle breath; Like incarnations of the stars, when splendour, Is chang'd to fragrance, they illumine death. Although both divine beings represent something that is opposed to the human will, both represent something inside of the human mind that seeks to limit uncontrolled free will: reason and conscience. Which leads, through toil and hate, to Fame's serene abode. Swift as a Thought by the snake Memory stung. The life can burn in blood, even while the heart may break. As it has ever done, with change and motion, From the great morning of the world when first. And others came . [59], If the reader sympathises with Prometheus or Satan, he views Jupiter and God as omnipotent and unchallengeable beings that rely on their might to stay in power. are repeated in their minds. "Deconstruction or Reconstruction: Reading Shelley's, Ross, Marlon B. However, the play was not yet published; Shelley would be delayed in editing and finishing the work by another death, that of his son William Shelley, who died on 7 June 1819. Athwart what brow is that dark mantle thrown? Prometheus resembles Jesus in that both uncompromisingly speak truth to power, and in how Prometheus overcomes his tyrant, Jupiter; Prometheus conquers Jupiter by "recalling" a curse Prometheus had made against Jupiter in a period before the play begins. thus doth strength/ To wisdom, courage, and long-suffering love,/ and thee, who art the form they animate,/ Minister like a slave. When hope has kindled hope, and lur'd thee to the brink. [18] As he accounts his sufferings more and more, he reaches a peak of declaring that he would recall "The curse / Once breathed on thee..."[19] Four voices, from the mountains, springs, air, and whirlwinds, respond to Prometheus through describing how they see the world and how "we shrank back: for dreams of ruin / To frozen caves our flight pursuing / Made us keep silence". Like pageantry of mist on an autumnal stream. Wet with the tears which should adorn the ground. Madison, NJ: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. Who were his flocks, whom near the living streams, Of his young spirit he fed, and whom he taught, The love which was its music, wander not—. For whom should she have wak'd the sullen year? With him appear a group of Furies who hope to torture Prometheus, but Mercury keeps them from interfering as he brings his message from Jupiter: "I come, by the great Father's will driven down, / To execute a doom of new revenge. Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow. The Epilogue, spoken by Demogorgon, expresses Shelley's tenets as a poet and as a revolutionary: To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite; "[65] Soon after, Prometheus asks a fury "Remit the anguish of that lighted stare;/ Close those wan lips; let that thorn-wounded brow/ Stream not with blood" and "So thy sick throes shake not that crucifix". The obscene ravens, clamorous o'er the dead; The vultures to the conqueror's banner true. The spirits together tell Prometheus, "Thou shalt quell this horseman grim, / Woundless though in heart or limb," an act which shall happen because of Prometheus's secret. [32], Scene II takes place in a forest with a group of spirits and fauns. This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory. Which frozen tears instead of pearls begem; A greater loss with one which was more weak; And dull the barbed fire against his frozen cheek. Her mighty youth with morning, doth complain. Smil'd through their tears; well knew that gentle band, The Stranger's mien, and murmur'd: "Who art thou?". To its own likeness, as each mass may bear; From trees and beasts and men into the Heaven's light. Quench within their burning bed, Thy fiery tears, and let thy loud heart keep. Rose from their thrones, built beyond mortal thought. Oh, not of him, but of our joy: 'tis nought. ", Rajan, Tilottama. "[23] Prometheus commands the phantasm to recall the curse against Jupiter, and the phantasm obeys: After hearing these words, Prometheus repents and claims, "I wish no living thing to suffer pain. She declares that "Then Prometheus/ Gave wisdom, which is strength, to Jupiter,/ And with this law alone, 'Let man be free,'/ Clothed him with the dominion of wide Heaven. And move like winds of light on dark and stormy air. And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay. Whose sacred blood, like the young tears of May. It flush'd through his pale limbs, and pass'd to its eclipse. "[62] The Demogorgon is the opposite of Jupiter who, "within the myth, is felt as such a tension, a tyranny established in the far past by the spirit of a man upon himself and his world, a tyranny that, till it can be overthrown, holds him straightened and tormented, disunited from his own creative energies. By man and beast and earth and air and sea, Burns bright or dim, as each are mirrors of. And whose wings rain contagion; how they fled. "[77], 1820 lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The phantasm first asks, "Why have the secret / powers of this strange world / Driven me, a frail and empty phantom, hither/ On direst storms? If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek! Attracts to crush, repels to make thee wither. That Beauty in which all things work and move, That Benediction which the eclipsing Curse, Of birth can quench not, that sustaining Love, Which through the web of being blindly wove. The lamps of Heaven flash with a softer light; All baser things pant with life's sacred thirst; Diffuse themselves; and spend in love's delight. Although reluctant to help the Parisian publishers A. and W. Galignani with an edition of Shelley's works, she eventually sent an "Errata" in January 1829. Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan! He is made one with Nature: there is heard, His voice in all her music, from the moan. To know nor faith, nor love, nor law; to be/ Omnipotent but friendless is to reign". Ione awakes and asks Panthea who they were, and Panthea explains. Beacons from the abode where the Eternal are. Panthea describes spirits of the human mind approaching, and these spirits soon join in with the others singing and rejoice in love. Prometheus Unbound is a four-act lyrical drama by Percy Bysshe Shelley, first published in 1820. [55] Demogorgon appears and speaks to the Earth, the Moon, and "Ye kings of suns and stars, Dæmons and Gods,/ Ætherial Dominations, who possess/ Elysian, windless, fortunate abodes/ Beyond Heaven's constellated wilderness". "[10], While in Italy, Shelley became concerned about the progress of publishing Prometheus Unbound. Mary Shelley (* 30.August 1797 in London, England; † 1. ", Waldoff, Leon. Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Romantic poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. Speak! Romanticism on the Net 6 (May 1997). Scene IV takes place in a forest near the cave, the place the spirit guided them. Like his, a mute and uncomplaining sleep; For he is gone, where all things wise and fair, Descend—oh, dream not that the amorous Deep. Why didst thou leave the trodden paths of men, Too soon, and with weak hands though mighty heart, Defenceless as thou wert, oh, where was then. "[45] Demogorgon appears and answers – Eternity. "[28] At that moment, a Chorus of Spirits appears and celebrates Prometheus's secret knowledge, which then break into accounts of dying individuals and the ultimate triumph of good people over evil. Flows from thy mighty sister."[41]. Like unimprison'd flames, out of their trance awake. And like a beaten hound tremble thou shalt—as now. [34] After Asia and Panthea are overwhelmed by their surroundings and witness the acts of nature around the mountains, a Song of Spirits begins, calling them "To the deep, to the deep,/ Down, down! "[75], Melvin Solve believed that Prometheus Unbound is so highly idealised and so remote from the conditions of life that the moral lesson is not essential to the enjoyment of the piece, and is, in fact, so well disguised that the critics have differed widely as to its interpretation". It is "the unknown force within the soul that, after extreme conflict and utter surrender of the conscious will, by virtue of the imaginative, creative element drawn down into the depths, can arise and shake the whole accustomed attitude of a man, changing its established tensions and oppressions. Oppressor of mankind `` man, oh, not of him should be one. 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