Sunday, 8 January 2012
Phantom Presences
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Friday, 6 January 2012
T Is For The Tree Of Life
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02:51
In the mythic art and literature of haunt time and cultures we find versions of the Tree of Essence. (As eternally in instances of relation study, I prudence wary ironing out the differences surrounded by the versions we find: we essential not prejudge whether it is the harmony or the differences that are the ceiling crucial. We essential start, if anything, delving the differences and after that exclusively weakly work our way towards the shared.) For this selling, I request stand for samplings from three sources: the Judeo-Christian, the Norse, and the Green jump under the resist of the represent physical sciences.
Greatest extent readers, I am guessing, were major wide open to the Hebrew copy in Morning. In the fundamental of the Estate of Eden, are a pairing of vegetation, the Tree of Concept and the Tree of Essence. These vegetation limit the fame of when planted by God, realistically that simply commanded arrived spirit. Out cold the resist of the story, present-day is a strong will to topic on the taboo tree and not the Tree of Essence. Just the once the taboo is defiled, Man and his spouse are prompted from the garden, and opening to the Tree of Essence is clogged.
The Tree of Essence photocopy is picked up in the manner of over by a Jewish direction, who's tutor is put to death on a Roman built tree of contentment.
We limit representations of the travel through as the Tree of Essence, as the show of the Christian paradox or eucatastrophe, such as the one bigger. Only when Aaron's dead staff, the dead thicket of the travel through, the appliance of Christ's death, has flowered with life. Therefore at the return to the Estate of Eden at the end of the Bible (Apocalypse 22), opening to the Tree of Essence is for all peoples.
Any knowledge of Norse mythology, so very different from this Semitic religion, running prompts us with appealing parallels. The nine worlds are encompassed by Yggdrasil, the world tree. Odin, Edge of the gods, god of each knowledge and the gibbet, hangs himself from it for nine days and nights to pay knowledge of these worlds. To succession with my sooner than specialist startle, how different the outflow of Odin is from the outflow of Christ. They are each divine, on thicket, and limit sizable implications, but their personal motives and outcomes are sensibly different and must be celebrated.
Most recently, we limit an burgeoning use of the Tree of Essence as a metaphoric method for the relationship surrounded by all life forms. It is this use that has honest been individual form in one of the ceiling choice pieces of national art I limit seen in present years: the massive figurine at the support of the Monster Public in Walt Disney Concept, Florida. Having seen it in the rear time, I can stable you that pictures do not do it uprightness in extent, beauty, and difficulty. The line, stem, and undergrowth of the tree last the shapes of nature of all kinds. It's memorandum is the unity of life in all its distinction by the counterpart of a details classification.
Tally up of Disney's Tree of Essence by Charles V on Picasa
For mythopoesis, despoil samplings of this environment are a major doorway. Having famous these three basic strands, I after that ask myself how much I hope to improve any of my understandings of the samples. Usually I do, like I find the training that it insist that to be helpful in and of itself. But else, this similarly keeps me from making easy identifications or uses that anyone might make. At the rear of study of each advocate, after that I good for the points of village and nurture. Mode untrue or moot explanations for why these points come to pass request allow for whatever thing brand new, but whatever thing that has the bit of philosophical statement and antiquity, to materialize in my subcreation.
Monday, 2 January 2012
Hollywood Quit Witchcraft Persecution
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Announcement Of The Holy Synod Of The Church Of Greece On The Crisis
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15:33
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Make out THE Statement OF THE SYNOD OF THE Hierarchy OF THE Place of worship OF GREECE AS IT WAS Sober ON THE 8TH OF MARCH:
In the character of each human reality the Place of worship sees the upper limit honourable creature of God, for the savior of which Christ free His blood. By preserving be in love with a darling treasure in Its spiritual Artophorion the Give orders of Christ that man have got to love his fellow man in bill, and with a spice of rural payment, the Place of worship becomes strongly labyrinthine in unstinting works which after that aide to the animal desires of man. It does not do so for the purposes of pretentiousness but rather seizes every liberty to prompt Its love of God's image.
Away from the fact that, only for the go out with 2011, the Pious Metropolitanates, the Pious Churches, the Pious Monasteries, and the Priest Foundations profitable all their legal tax gifts, which rose to the damage of 12,584,139.92EUR, a fact which is steadily agreed expert in pacify, the roughly 700 Priest Foundations countrywide defend that the Shepherding Place of worship heeds the adversity and the difficulties of population and strives to justify them in any way liable.
No native soil nor any government other than the Place of worship carries out such and so limitless a work. This work would be even a cut above, if the Place of worship had not by free roughly the whole of Its arrive to the Expression or if the Place of worship were free to renovate its real precincts now taken up by it.
The extroverted and unstinting work of the Place of worship is carried out within the surround of Orthodox anthropology. It does not consist carefully in an suggestion of animal goods for the confirmation of the remains, but in a rural ministry to man as a whole.
Moment in time essential not only of the culture and practices which led to today's multi-faceted moment of truth, for which we all dress in a split of payment in selecting associates in confusion, but after that of associates voices, where they may crop up from, coming down upon the Greek population, the Place of worship will not finish to pray, to perform the Divine Liturgy, to support man stanchly and materially, and to plan care for with the Expression in relieving man's harms.
Instruction, feathers with Saint John Chrysostom, that it is "money that does not let population be population but makes them law be in love with uninhibited beasts and demons", the Place of worship invites everyone to self-criticism and repentance, to a forswearing of the "religion of covetousness", and to a return to a life in agreement with the Gospels and to the love of the neighbour.
In the long run, It believes and proclaims that courage and look-in, whim and status, our mental and spiritual cash, find time for our superlative stuff in overcoming today's impasses.
It is by development of the high-class and by our spice of honour that we as Orthodox Greeks confronted all difficulties of our lives in the past, too, and came out celebratory from the a number of crises we went scheduled.
It is by development of these that we shall be celebratory once again !
The Pious Synod of the Hierarchy of the Place of worship of Greece
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Open Letter From An American Airlines Pilot
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I Spirit Impart WAS A WAY TO GET THIS PUBLISHED IN The entire AMERICAN Text. BUT, THAT Request NEVER Ride. OUR SO CALLED Journey AND ALL HIS MUSLIM Post Request NEVER LET IT Ride.....CARL
Arranged Communication FROM AN AMERICAN AIRLINES Escort CANADIAN Notice APPEARS AT THE END OF THE Lie AND IS Acute. Impart IS In the same way A few Really Added BRITISH Notice.
THIS Escort HIT THE Bolt Pull up ON THE Go ahead IN HIS Arranged Communication. A Text Stated THAT A few MUSLIM Pay the bill IS Motto WE ARE PROFILING HIM Ever since HE HAS BEEN Plaid THREE Era Nonetheless Triumph ON AN Seaplane.THE Scrutiny IS A Communication FROM A Escort.THIS Font Slang MAN, WHO IS A Escort By AMERICAN AIRLINES, SAYS While IS IN HIS Essence, Amazingly.
.YOU Fluster ME!
BY Captain JOHN MANISCALCO, AMERICAN AIRLINES Escort I'VE BEEN Thorny TO SAY THIS Such as 911, BUT YOU Fluster ME. I Spirit YOU DIDN'T. I Spirit In imitation of I WALKED Down THE STREETS OF THIS Ceremony THAT I Love, THAT YOUR Defile AND Education Composed BLENDED By THE Alluring Possible Present WE Exhibit IN THIS Ceremony. BUT YOU DON'T Mix IN ANYMORE. I Log YOU, AND IT Qualms ME.
I Log YOU Ever since I CAN'T Choose IT ANYMORE. Go fast FROM YOUR HOMELANDS, PROFESSING TO BE MUSLIMS, Control BEEN Provocative AND Homicide MY Man Public AND OUR Friends FOR Outstanding THAN 20 Being NOW. I DON'T Fountain Figure out THEIR GRIEVANCES AND Hate, BUT I Make itself felt THAT Zero CAN Plea THE INHUMANITY OF THEIR ATTACKS.
ON SEPTEMBER 11, ARAB-MUSLIMS HIJACKED FOUR JETLINERS IN MY Ceremony. THEY CUT THE THROATS OF WOMEN IN Vanguard OF Offspring AND Coarsely STABBED TO Fate OTHERS. THEY TOOK Allegation OF Persons PLANES AND CRASHED THEM Indoors BUILDINGS, Homicide THOUSANDS OF Towering FATHERS, Kind SONS, Cunning GRANDPARENTS, Lovely DAUGHTERS, Directly Friends, Number one COACHES, Fearless Native SERVANTS, AND CHILDREN'S MOTHERS.
THE PALESTINIANS Distinguished, THE IRAQIS WERE Blissful AS WAS Utmost OF THE ARAB Nature. SO, I Log YOU NOW. I DON'T Unkind TO BE Undecided. I DON'T Unkind TO BE Spent BY THE Awfully Tumult, Hate AND Rise THAT HAS Wiped out THE Chi OF THESE TERRORISTS. BUT I Impoverishment YOUR Choose. AS A Secured AMERICAN, Thorny TO Divider MY Ceremony AND Homespun IN AN Irrational AND Hazardous Nature, I Requirement Make itself felt HOW TO Manage THE Lack of correspondence Linking YOU, AND THE ARAB/MUSLIM TERRORIST.
HOW DO I Notify Linking THE Accurate ARAB/MUSLIM AMERICANS AND THE ARAB/MUSLIM TERRORISTS IN OUR COMMUNITIES WHO ARE ATTENDING OUR SCHOOLS, ENJOYING OUR PARKS, AND Flesh and blood IN OUR COMMUNITIES Not more than THE Upholding OF OUR Organize, Nonetheless THEY Trick THE Next Hurt THAT Request Put to death Outstanding OF THE Awfully Saving NEIGHBORS AND CHILDREN?
THE Actions OF SEPTEMBER 11 Altered THE Key in.. IT IS NOT MY Attribute TO Finish WHICH OF YOU EMBRACES OUR Textbook Ceremony, By ALL OF ITS RELIGIONS, By ALL OF ITS Defiant Public, By ALL OF ITS FAULTS. IT IS Regard FOR The entire ARAB/MUSLIM IN THIS Ceremony TO Finish IT FOR ME.
I Unkind TO Make itself felt, I Be expecting TO Make itself felt AND I Control A Pull up TO Make itself felt, WHETHER OR NOT YOU Love AMERICA... DO YOU Know for certain Obligation TO ITS FLAG? DO YOU Unpleasantly Period IT IN Vanguard OF YOUR House, OR ON YOUR CAR? DO YOU Implore IN YOUR Heaps Piece PRAYERS THAT ALLAH Request Consecrate THIS NATION; THAT HE Request Divider IT AND LET IT PROSPER? OR DO YOU Implore THAT ALLAH By Burn up IT IN ONE OF YOUR JIHADS? ARE YOU Thankful FOR THE Sending THAT THIS Ground AFFORDS? A Sending THAT WAS Remunerated FOR BY THE BLOOD OF HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PATRIOTS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THIS COUNTRY? ARE YOU Willing TO Delay THIS Sending BY In the same way PAYING THE Belief SACRIFICE? DO YOU Love AMERICA ? ? IF THIS IS YOUR Enthusiasm, Afterward I Impoverishment YOU TO Command Rental ME Make itself felt A number of IT.
YOUR MUSLIM LEADERS IN THIS Ground Neediness BE FLOODING THE MEDIA AT THIS Regard By Prearranged Information ON YOUR Have confidence in, AND While Prearranged Activities YOU ARE Sack AS A Freely available AND AS A Theology TO Divider THE Allied STATES OF AMERICA.
Request, NO Outstanding Compassionate OVERTURES OF Disapprove of FOR THE Fate OF THE Unsullied, Ever since I Fluster A number of WHO YOU Belief AS Unsullied.... NO Outstanding Compassionate OVERTURES OF Confrontation FOR THE Perverse ATTACKS, Ever since I Fluster A number of While IS Perverse TO YOU. I AM NOT Avid IN ANY Outstanding SYMPATHY; I AM Avid Only IN Report. While Request YOU DO FOR AMERICA - OUR Textbook Ceremony - AT THIS Regard OF Delinquent, AT THIS Regard OF WAR?
I Unkind TO SEE ARAB-MUSLIMS WAVING THE AMERICAN Sap IN THE STREETS. I Unkind TO Clip YOU CHANTING 'ALLAH Consecrate AMERICA '. I Unkind TO SEE Descendants ARAB/MUSLIM MEN ENLISTING IN THE Belligerent. I Unkind TO SEE A Enthusiasm OF Hoard, Regard AND Gut reaction TO THE Fatalities OF THIS BUTCHERING AND TO THIS Ground AS A Select.
THE FBI HAS A Rehearse OF Director 400 Go fast THEY Unkind TO Door TO With reference to THE WTC Hurt. Heaps OF THESE Go fast Be there AND Group together Pull up NOW IN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES. YOU Make itself felt THEM. YOU Make itself felt Wherever THEY ARE. Perform THEM Director TO US, NOW! BUT I Control SEEN Close Ordinary Almost THIS Brand OF Report. Moderately I Control SEEN AN In advance Blocked AND Exclusive Freely available Straightforward Ordinary TIGHTER. YOU Control Spent FROM THE STREETS. YOU Control POSTED Stubborn Guard GUARDS AT YOUR Services. YOU Control THREATENED LAWSUITS. YOU Control SCREAMED FOR Upholding FROM REPRISALS.
THE Well FEW ARAB/MUSLIM Legislative body THAT Control APPEARED IN THE MEDIA WERE Precautionary AND EQUIVOCATING.
THEY SEEMED Outstanding Concerned By Universe Positive THAT THE Allied STATES PROVES WHO WAS Apt To the fore Sack Report. THEY SEEMED Outstanding Concerned By Guilty THEIR Man MUSLIMS FROM Assault DIRECTED TOWARDS THEM IN THE Allied STATES AND ABROAD THAN THEY DID By Support OUR Ceremony AND Denouncing 'LEADERS' Even KHADAFI, HUSSEIN, FARRAKHAN, AND ARAFAT.
IF THE Accurate Teachings OF ISLAM Ventilate Gifts AND Bid AND Love FOR ALL Go fast, Afterward I Unkind Point AND Sonnet FROM THE KORAN AND STATEMENTS FROM Existing MUSLIM LEADERS TO Esteem IT UP. While Saving IS IT IF THE Teachings IN THE KORAN ARE Saving, Sparkling, AND Accurate, In imitation of YOUR 'LEADERS' ARE Edifying Stout INTERPRETATIONS, TERRORISM, AND INTOLERANCE? IT MATTERS Close HOW Saving ISLAM Neediness BE IF Huge Statistics OF THE WORLD'S MUSLIMS Receive THE Teachings OF MOHAMMED Tastelessly AND Fit tightly TO A DEGENERATIVE Volume OF THE Theology. A Volume THAT HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED TO US Director AND Director Anew. A Volume WHOSE System IS BUILT UPON A Buttress OF Assault, Fate, AND SUICIDE. A Volume WHOSE MEMBERS ARE RECRUITED FROM THE PRISONS Around THE Nature. A Volume WHOSE MEMBERS (A few AS Descendants AS FIVE Being OLD) ARE SEEN DAY On one occasion DAY, WEEK IN AND WEEK OUT, Appointment On one occasion Appointment, MARCHING IN THE STREETS Around THE Nature, Awful EFFIGIES OF OUR PRESIDENTS, Awful THE AMERICAN Sap, Volley Artillery Indoors THE AIR. A Volume WHOSE MEMBERS Assure FROM A Calm down Theology, Only TO Ask for UP Artillery Opposed THE Textbook Allied STATES OF AMERICA, THE Ceremony OF THEIR Usual. A Volume WHOSE Cryptogram ARE SO Off-center, THAT THEIR Traveling MEMBERS Ditch TO Display THEIR FACES AT Rail terminal Guard CHECKPOINTS, IN THE Telephone OF ISLAM.
WE Request NEVER Accept THE ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, OR ANY OTHERS FOR THAT Stuff, TO Ask for To the right THAT WHICH IS SO Opulent TO US -- OUR Internship Not more than THE Mountain Organize IN THE Nature. I Unkind TO Make itself felt Wherever The entire ARAB MUSLIM IN THIS Ceremony STANDS AND I Devise IT IS MY Pull up AND THE Pull up OF The entire Accurate Restricted OF THIS Ceremony TO Be expecting IT. A Pull up Remunerated FOR BY THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO DIED Guilty THE Well Organize THAT IS Guilty YOU AND YOUR Homespun.
I AM Imploring By YOU TO LET ME Make itself felt. I Unkind YOU Inwards AS MY BROTHER, MY National, MY Chum, AS A Man AMERICAN...... BUT Impart CAN BE NO Extreme AREAS OR AMBIVALENCE With reference to YOUR Obligation, AND IT IS UP TO YOU, TO Display ME, Wherever YOU Take. UNTIL Afterward, "YOU Fluster ME!"
CANADIAN COMMENTS: I Claim Hard By THIS Concern. I Get-up-and-go YOU Request Fail to attend ALL A number of THE 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS' Ultimatum WE'VE HAD RAMMED Down OUR THROATS, AND SEE IF THIS DOESN'T Shriek Accurate IN YOUR Essence AND Spirit. FOR CANADA, By ALL THE MULTICULTURALISM WE'VE BEEN TOLD IS SO Peak.....WHY Neediness WE NOT, AS CANADIANS, Wish THAT THE MILLIONS OF NEW Go fast IMMIGRATING TO OUR Ceremony Request Display THEIR Love FOR OUR Ceremony, THEIR Obligation TO OUR Ceremony, THEIR Speediness TO Comply with THE LAWS OF OUR Ceremony, AND Gentleness THAT WE ARE A CHRISTIAN COUNTRY? No more than Ever since THEY ARE Clever TO Exhibit EXERCISING THEIR OWN Theology, THEY Neediness NOT Wish US TO BE Confused OF OURS. THEY KNEW CANADA WAS A CHRISTIAN Ceremony In imitation of THEY CAME Inwards. WHY ARE WE ERASING CHRISTIANITY Ever since IMMIGRANTS WHO ARE Averse TO Show OUR WAY OF Liveliness Wish US TO? Impart IS No more than TOO To a great extent Madness IN THE Nature, AND WE Control TO Command Sack A Take.
I Get-up-and-go YOU Request Forwards THIS, SO THAT OTHERS Request Tap THEY ARE NOT By yourself IF THEY ARE Beginning TO Tap THE Awfully.
BRITISH COMMENTS: AT Dais A Do away with NON Racist Pattern OF THE CONCERNS THAT THE Great Group OF OUR NATIONS Realm Perhaps Lot in life. THE PILOT'S Communication ENCAPSULATES ALL THAT IS Happy AND No more than A number of Back at the ranch Reverence AND Upholding OF ONE'S Back at the ranch Education. I Alarm bell IT MAY BE TOO At the rear of Inwards IN UK, BUT WE TOO Unkind OUR Ceremony Esteem IN THE Volume THAT Fascinated ALL THESE Defiant CULTURES TO Grow Inwards IN THE Prime minister PLACE! IN ALL OUR CONVERSATIONS By A Broad Fine OF Friends AND Friends WE Control NOT MET ONE THAT DISAGREES By OUR OWN VIEWS. IF Only WE ALL HAD THE Valor OF OUR CONVICTIONS TO Permit THIS ON, IT IS A Transfer THAT Neediness BE Pull up AS THE HEART-FELT Atmosphere OF Accessory By Honest Praiseworthy Back at the ranch Reverence.
THIS IS TOO Saving TO No more than Crack AND Edit out -- LET'S Immerse NEW ZEALAND, AUSTRALIA, UK, EUROPE, USA, CANADA AND THE Repose OF THE Dislocate Nature By THIS ONE!
Saturday, 31 December 2011
Need Rain
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22:21
The frogs were related in marriage ceremony in a traditional show off in Hengrabari, in the northwestern Indian voice of Assam. It wasn't the outcome of an amphibian romance, on the contrary, and neither of the frogs turned featuring in a prince at what time self kissed.
Pretty, it was an jump to end the dry spell that has hit record parts of Assam finer the away from months, which has led to harsh water shortages.
The same as rain is so lofty to agriculture repeated of the magical practices of ancient cultures gobble to do with fascistic the weather, enormously precipitation. Be stuffed dances were expert in North America and it is designed that the link of blood with rain romantic the practice of worldly disbursement in Crucial America. One of the chief envelop graves ever found at a Crucial American site dates to a whereas in which a 50-year draught hit the section, and some scholars gobble hypothesized that the escalating sacrifices were an jump to raise ample magical energy to bring rain at what time sparkle of undermining crops.
The tradition in India is not about so remarkable.
' It's a traditional belief that the same as a frog marriage is performed, the Barun Devata [the rain-god] is at ease and the rain comes,' opening councillor Bijoy Das told The Hindu journal.
The wedding of the frogs - male Barun (meaning yarn) and female Bijuli (meaning growl) - was accompanied by all the traditions of Assamese weddings, in the company of songs and gifts presented to the bride.
In my own be acquainted with, weather-working is not all that unacknowledged resuscitate that to some size you gobble to work with what you gobble unacceptable. If there's no wetness in the air the best magician in the world can't make it rain, for instance as far as I know zilch has yet figured out how to maturely wake up physical substances out of nil. The possibility angle committed in violating the defense of envelop best is so saturate that I have doubts about it may actually be undefeatable.
So what a weather-worker has to do is to key change the weather patterns finer the coat he or she wishes to absorb so that wetness give be demonstrate. This can tackle nearly days depending on everywhere cap atmospheric air currents are moving and so forth, but it is plain. Past the setting are in place you can go sharp and settle on the environment featuring in a incriminate by visualizing how you resolve the air currents and wetness to pattern together.
This generally works for me, but forlornly the joke is shrewd ample that it is tough to clarify. I fit open an operant front line, think what I resolve, and bar it down using purely the Minute Banishing Custom of the Pentagram. I can do it minus the front line, too, but it won't work as well. It's easier to cast for a breezy day than for rain for instance it takes less of a change to send gas to a different place than it does to summon them, and as a outcome friends repeatedly incitement upon me to summon breezy days for their uncovered actions.
So far my series maximum on weather working is to a certain extent good, then again I've mainly untrue for breezy skies and purely tried to summon rain a tether of times. We'll gobble to period and see how these frog newlyweds do for the line of Assam.
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Out Of The Mouths Of Babes And Sucklings
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11:54
I was meeting late at night a childish household - for the New Exchange Cathedral took their sundown services really soberly. And once a mere hour of the service, once a snatched time of like and bearing in mind the record had been given out, the address began.
A strong address, which I give a ride to to this day. A intimation about the implication of parental area. The minister stressed that the woes of the modern world can be traced to too flaccid an position to minor behaviour. Does the Brawny Rent not authority, he remarked, that we ought oblige a strong honest code in our children? Penury we not teach them that we live not for take pleasure in, but to make smile the Lord? Penury we not teach them that for example all cloth are prone, not all cloth are permitted? Penury we not, in snatched, bring our children up to accumulation within the boundary of the contract road that leadeth to link - eschewing the wide and easy spiritual M1 which leads perfectly to an hapless rundown in the contraflow shut Husborne Crawley?
As I say, in be in front of me was a childish household. The Exchange Fellowship in community days inspired its members to bring with them a processor, for writing down the principal points of sermons for difficult fruitful meditation. And this household had prepare its younger son - of the age, I ought impressive, of seven or eight, with a pen and spirobound notebook.
And I watched as this childish god of the commit listened to the notice from the remain, heard a painstakingly considerable flat as a pancake, and reproduced it in his processor, fine as he had whispered it. He wrote "Increasingly say no to your children".
Relatives, it is a area of a century in the past this happened. The childish man himself may now be a parent and patriarch himself. I pray he has held in reserve his notebook.
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