Was founded in 1927 by my grandfather benjamin bass and then onto my father fred bass. Nancy and then onto me. For a little bit of history in the the lighting ten hundreds over this area around the bookstore here in Greenwich Village was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers. Charles and sons was here and the company, design press, they all had editorial offices in ebola, they all add their bookstores to display their new books. Along Fourth Avenue just around on that side, was known as growth. And its it height there were 48 used bookstores which is the sole survivor. We are. As the owner of the stranded widgets 80mile in books, and not easily phased by thousand books. The james on the bucket list, tonight feature book has stopped me in my tracks. [applause]. s expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect die for slide detail. Never again will you have to wonder what to read next. 1,000 books to read before you die is a one stop shop for anybody who likes books. He does not like books. [laughter]. I have to say that i cannot think of a better person to have written the book like this. And james. Than james mustich, princeton graduate with a degree in English Literature and a veteran bookseller, he started his career at a shop in briarcliff working for just 2. 70 an hour. [laughter]. Is moved on as the cofounder and guiding voice for the claimed book catalog, the common reader. Up until recently, he was the Vice President of Digital Products and barnes noble. Everybody is wondering about the future of the books and bookstores at the stranded, id like to say that we are going great. [applause]. Thanks to all of you. And wee are thrilled to have our friends at cspan but to be with us tonight. They are an american treasure and started an amazing job at promoting incredible books. After the format tonight, i will ask james some questions and then we will open up the mike to your questions but first upon staying seated, hope everybody got their literary whiz. [laughter]. No. [laughter]. Youre not doing not it. [laughter]. In 2016, the New York Times challenged narrators to pass the stranded literary whiz job application. Tonight, james and i are challenging you to test your book smarts with a new version of this quiz. The 1,000 books to read before you die quiz. The use of any 21st century device is prohibited in answering these questions. So no, you cannot find a friend, you siri google or alexa. And at the end of the event, james will give us the answers to the quiz and spoiler alert, we have five prizes for the soom to be informed that luckiest of both forms. Our top prize is 100 Gift Certificate for the stranded and it took bag with overflowing with book items including many books from workman press. And now without further ado, please join me in a big warm welcome to james mustich. [applause]. James thank you. Thank you very much. [applause]. Nancy so james, tell us how does this book all take place. James about 15 years ago now, i was approached by this book. Workman had published quite successfully, the thousand places to see before you die. Some of you may know this and it was very successful. And one evening, as i recall, we were having cocktails at the workmans home in connecticut, however the owner of book and publishing is with us tonight. [applause]. And peter said, you know i think we should do one of those books about the thousand things to do. About books and would you like to write it. I without hesitation, yes. Peter used to take u me out for lunch at least every year if not twice a year and he would always talk about you in the book. He died five years ago soi a pat of me, i know he was so fond of you, part of me thinks he must be very proud of this moment that we are all together. I hope that is the case, im pretty sure it is. I think you would be very pleased to see all these people here and to know that so many people are talking about the book and to see such a beautiful execution of the book by the whole team. This was really an extraordinary effort in terms of the design led by janet who is sitting right there, and extraordinary job. [applause] it was almost exactly a year ago today that i sent in the last bit of manuscript for this book. In the book if you have seen it, its 1000 pages long, profusely illustrated, beautifully designed and it went off to the printer in march, between november and march there was a lot of work done in the production and everything is just gorgeous. I think peter would be delighted. Did you read all thousand of the books. I have read the vast majority of them but as you know when youve been a bookseller long enough, there are some books that you talked about so often that you become convinced that you have read them, there are a couple of them that arent like that in here but i become familiar with them. You have the koran and the bible and things like the 9 11 report. It is a pretty broad range of titles but those in fact they did read. Yes. 14 years as a longtime. [laughter] can you describe your process andti eliminating all of the 130 million books that are in. To woodland down to 1000 books. To process and dignifying was a little bit rigor than i had planned. I made a list of books which was several thousand in this was books that i had loved myself or loved selling and grown to love through the advocacy of other readers. You mentioned the catalog that i ran for 20 years as a common reader and that was a wonderful community, you could call it a book blog with a social community of readers except al gore had to invent the internet. So we just printed these catalogs and mail them out and we had hundreds of thousands ofd customers around the country and they would often write in after they purchased books to say that they were delighted to discover them and also recommend other books that they thought belonged to the collection we were making. And my wife margo was here. [applause] as she knows, we still have eight filing cabinets in our basement filled with these letters that people would send us just prompting us to discover new books, to put them in the catalog and even bring some of them back into. He was sitting in the audience and we got a recommendation and he said you know this book and i said no and he said we got together and we did a paperback a addition and sold in the catalog. That kind of reader, enthusiasm for books was the criteria. They wanted to be a book that i wanted to give to someone s and say you have to read this or someone had given to me with the same passion. It was still many more books that could be included, so when i finally decided to do as a framework i was reading a book by edwin wilson, the great literary critic and h at one pot he has a passage about the miscellaneous learning of the bookstore on organized by any large principal. Which seemed to me a perfect rubric for this project. So i said to myself what if i only had 1000 books, had a bookstore and could only have 1000 books and i wanted to have something anyone who might come in looking for a book, that helped me too narroww it down into get the right kind of range that i wanted. I wanted the book to be fun to explore not just kind of a static reference book. You can up a bookstore like this, you can have a chain of 1000. [laughter] we can go into partnership. I think you went beyond, i know you said a thousand books but i look at the end t of the Book Description and you say try this, you have the audiobook and other books written by the author so you kept going on and on. O every book of 8000 has a short essay that i wrote about it to give context and to be an invitation to the book. And then at the end of each of the essays there are and notes which has bibliographic information of when the bookk ws first published, what the best translation may be, and also recommendation for further reading, either other books by the same author or further reading on the subject that the book is about the civil war or world war ii and then also other books to try if you like that one. Also there is about 8500 books referenced in this book and all indexed in the back. Also, i should add because i forget to say this, we built a website, 1000 books to read. Com which is 1000 books to read. Com which has one question at the top, what book should everybody read before they die, has my list, it has the three buttons next to the books i chose and ts a little snippet from the book itself but the buttons are green andto the second button is lifes too short in the third button and readers, all of you can go on to that and add your own books and answers to that question beyond a thousand. There are no cells on the site, it is designed as a tool for stores and libraries and people can come in on their phone to sort the list by genre or subject to find interesting things to read. If you were writing a book, the one book you had to read before you died. Now that i finished it would be this one. For a long time i was not sure i was going to hear. I want to say i love your sub headers and you put the civil war and described it as the american elite and i love the 84 crossroads, he said single white bibliophile companion. You mustve had a lot of fun imagining how to summarize a book in a witty manner. Sometimes they came easily and sometimes they took longer to come up with and actually writing the t essay. It was hard to write short as mark twain once said i am writing the very long letter because i did not have a enough time to write you a short one. [laughter] going back to the choice of which books, did you get pressure from your daughter, wife, publishing to include books because everybody has their opinion, did you feel that . I write anod introduction tht once people know that your writing 1,000 books to read before you die, you can never enjoy dinner party quite the same way again. Because everyone has their own board to put in. I did not feel too much pressure is more the enthusiasm for books that they really loved. So that was part of the fun of the process and for me really part of the fun of the whole project is to promote those questions among readers and among booksellers and librarians. We are just traveling around various stories and libraries across the country promoting the book and that was a lot of fun to talk with audiences like this and bookstores would often have displays of b the book with boos from within the book and i would always say to the book stop, you also have a table of books that you think should be in it that i left out. That is part of the fund. We went down to the table and you are checking out what our choices were. O i think you had everything in the i book. Those are our favorite. Was a hard to sometimes not have the ending of the book in the sub naps like in the end of the fear othe end ofthe affair. Is very conscious of not playwriting any spoilers to the book because i think that wouldk particularly unit would not want to give it away. So i had to rein myself in sometimes. It is hard to figure out what part of the research was knowing enough to know what not to say, for that reason in particular. You went across all genres, young Childrens Books, a lot of travel log, you have interpretation of dreams and you really were so expansive. I wanted to have i beliee that people read the way that they eat. So they might want aay hot dog r lunch one day in the g next day they will go out for a fancy french meal with wine and the whole 9 yards. I think that is important to our reading lives and i wanted the book to represent that to be more of a menu that people would find inviting rather than a prescription that was homework or physical therapy. So i wanted to have something for every type of reading appetite. So you can start this book as a reader if you have willing parents with Good Night Moon and where the wild things are and go all the way through to the comingofage in cs lewis as a grief observed. Its a cradle to cradle reading. Do you want to read your passion. I want to read a little bit from the introduction and will open it up to course under questions. I will start with the line i already used but it leads into other things once people know youre writing a book called 1,000 books to read before you die, you can never enjoy a dinner party in quite the way you did before. No matter how many books you managed to consider, no money how many pages you had written, everynv conversation was a fellw reader and sure to provide new titles to seek out or more worryingly to expose an egregious omission or gapping your knowledge, to say nothing revealing the privileges and prejudices however, unwitting underlying your point of reference. Four years a thousand books felt like too many to get my head around. But now it seems to fuel by several multiples. So let me say what already obvious. This book is neither comprehensive nor authoritative, even if a good number of the title assembled here would be on the most list of essential reading. Its meant to be an invitation to a conversation, evengu an argument about the books and offers that are missing as well as the books and authors included. Because the question of what to read next is the best prelude to more important ones. Like who to be and how to live. In reading and learning and imagination lurches, theres something even lucky enough to take for granted is freedom. Its something i fear that may be forgotten in the great amnesia of in the moment newsfeeds and algorithmically defined identities which hide from our view with the complexity of feelings and ideas that we quietly and determinedly engaged. To get lost in the story or in a study is inherently to acknowledge the voice of another. To broaden ones perspective beyond the confines of one owns andoo understanding. A good book is the opposite, the right book at the right time can expand our lives in the way love does. Making us more thoughtful, generous, brave, more alert to the worlds wonders and in pain by its equities, more lives, more kind. [applause] we would like to ask the question, we ask that you stand up and not be so timid. Go ahead and raise your hand, i can bring you a microphone so you can be heard. Tell me the value of any prizes, pulitzer prize, nobel prize, National Book awards. They werent waited but i did review all of the list of prizewinners to make sure i was not overlooking something. They werent itself except for giving the book easy access to the book in the list of prizes did not mean all that much. Hi jim. Hi marsha. I would like to ask what are you reading now except your pr probably not reading now, if you are not reading now because youre so busy, what is the last book you read. A twopart answer, the last book esr. That i read that i want to recommend to everyone is a book called these troops which is the discovery of the north american competent up until two years ago that is remarkable in being a hundred pages wrong but still very readable. It reveals things that we are grappling with as a country now that has been present from 1776 andd before, its kind of instructive, i recommend that to everyone. The book im a reading now is by an author who is appearing at another event tonight at the China Institute called the three body problem and i am not quite sure how to pronounce his name. It is a marvelous book, a Science Fiction book recommended to me, quite passionately by a reader, i am in the middle of that. There will probably be signed copies left over to. Could you speak a little bit about the challenges in the interesting act specs a reading of something in translation. That is a great question. I tried to be as international as possible given the fact that i was writing for an American Market and predominantly works in english. But there is more than 200 works in translation think we are having a fire drill. The transition, a couple ofor issues, one for the older works because if youre talking about the greek tragedies or any latin, theres many translations. How do you pick the best ones, i was careful to try to do to recommend to people because there is nothing worse than someone picking up a great book like the odyssey and having a translation that is dated or stilted or does not speak to a modern reader. So for those books i was pretty familiar with and recommendeded translations. For classic works, its the same thing, every great book for each new generation has a new translation. In part because the language changes and in part because publishers want to keep it under copyright. But that means there are lots oo choices to make. I was careful there too. What is particularly difficult in terms of works in translation is that any works that we get of contemporary literature that is translated from another culture already filtered by an editor or a publisher who is deciding that this book would appeal to an american or british market. That is whites translated. You never really know if you are actually getting a deep picture of what the literature is of ltanother culture. It is problematic but it is fun. I really love your description, i think one of the interesting follow along questions is book changes when you read them to but you read before. I do think your process of winamp person might be reading your book. Im sure you it differs from whn youre reading it as a child to your daughters. I try to be conscious that i wanted this book to appeal to somebody who was 17 as well as 37 and not just my age so when you read a book when youre younger, it has a certain meaning to you and some books get richer if you. Reporter them when you get older, i think particularly the one by george elliott, my own favorite novel so much i bread every decade since then. It has gotten and then you read other books that were really important, a marvelous book to read when you are young and its important that those books be represented here as well. Its still a marvelous book and not quite as overwhelming as it was when you were 20 yearsot ol. And then there are books that are totally different, i will tell a little story, i was fortunate enough to meet the author Joseph Keller at a cocktail party. At the time i met him his book catch22 had been listed on the list of the Modern Library as 100 bus models of the 20th century. It was number six. I went up to them at this party because he lives down the road from my wifes parents and they said congratulations on the book being so high on the Modern Library list, i said thank you so much but i think they picked the wrong book and he glared at me and said what do you mean. But was a much better book. And he just gloated and said so do i. So i told him about my experience with the book and i read it when it came out in the 1970s i was probably in college and i thought this was the funniest book i have ever read. I memorized whole pages of his description of office life because i found them so amusing. And he said to me, i told him that and he said it is really a middleaged persons book, i said yeah i know because i read it rushed year and i found it completely horrifying. [laughter] i said all of the things i had found very amusing when i was a 20yearold, i was just saying therefore by the grace of god but the book has changed and they speak to you in different ways and different times. I was reading patty smith just kids and it was published in 2010 and i first picked it up and she was stealing books for scribners and i cannot read this book. [laughter] and then i picked it up recently and it is so poetic and t so brilliant but i needed that time to absorb this ebooks you dislike to be read whether they make you angry but deserve to be there as a warning or whatever. Yes that was shrub. Its a book that is assumed such prominence in our culture and his beloved by many readers which is fine but the philosophy such as it is, it was not enough to make up for the wooden characters and all of that. Its been a book of enormous influence and its important that i wanted to read it and have something to say about it. I dont know if yout read it but its kind of like watching your Football Team when a game 103 7 because it is so stilted in one direction. I presented in context of the thinking in the importance and then i use some version of the line about the Football Game because thats the way i found it. I have literally question in a technical question, there are two books that i think are my candidates to the Great American novel. So that is a concept, for 100 years the concept of the grammar can novel, what do you think is a Great American novel, did you read it. In the tactical question, screens versus books, did you read any of these books on screens or candles or did you Read Everything in paper and is there a difference. I was a Vice President at barnes noble so i read them oe next. So i did read some of these books on screens, i am promiscuous when it comes to reading, i would read on screens or milk cartons if it was there. So i think even reading is convenient if you are traveling or commuting and you do have to take several books at once. Its great for people who want to make type bigger and smaller and that stuff. So i dont have anything about that except i dont know if any of you read ebooks but this is a digression. I found this interesting when i read ebooks and still to this day if im in the middle of the novel and a character appears who appeared earlier and i cannot quite remember who it is, my hands will start to flip back because in a physical book, you have this kind of sense that it was like three flips back and on the lefthand supplied. You have annoyed you where you are or how to get back. In the other question, the Great American novel, what are your two . Sister carrie and american pastel. They are both in here and i love both of those books. American pastel particular because the seams in which he depicts the vibrant life in its rapid decline. Because those of us i am from the bronx originally and i know when i was small what a vibrant city it was as was brooklyn and befores brooklyn was recast asa sitcom recently. But the whole urban decline had never been in my reading so vividly capture. But if i had to pick one it would probably be moby dick because it embodies the combination of worth work ethic and craft and labor and craziness on the other hand and a sense of manifest destiny that is all part of the american psyche, both of those things. Hey jim. Its very, very exciting to be her prey thank you so much. That was a perfect segue ob for what im about to ask. Theres a lot of people that know you personally for a long time and are very grateful to you for your inspiration, both as someone who has always shown us the beauty c of books and wht it can do in our lives but also as a dear friend. If i can get personal for a minute, i we talked a lot about books but we have not talked aou lot about you. I think two things, one i common reader was an incredible accomplishment, this is an incredible accomplishment, you can have passion for books, you can love the arts intoyo all tht but you made both of those things happen, both when you i d i that you are nuts. Can you talk a little bit i think you use the words and talking about moby and what you admired that both influenced you, inspired you and helped you through those processes. Thank you. Theyll be an envelope for you later. [laughter] part of me wants to say, i think this is a large part true that i fell in love with books in the written word very early, i never wanted to do anything else, i tried to find ways that would keep those things primarily to what i had to do every day for my job and i was either determined or unimaginative enough to do the same thing and finding another way to do it. So when one reader close to find another way to do it, this book came along about the time and the other projects of barnes noble and they did not really want to do anything else. I wanted to find a way to keep being near the stuff that i love. I like Nothing Better than to be able to express in some way assisting plea what a book was about or what it said to me. As long as i have that opportunity to write about books in that way and to share that with others, that was what i was going to do. Also there is a lot of improvisation. I was working at a bookstore and i said to myself, how can i do this and not sell books that i do not like and not have to be here on saturday. So i came up with the catalog. Thank you so much for sharing tonight. My question is, whether any particular attention was paid to the races, genders and nationality of the authors represented in your book or if the focus was on just the literary merit of the substance or if those things can be divorced at all. I dont think they can be divorced as easily as we would like to divorce them. I was looking forvi books of quality that spoke to readers, whatever their providence was, i was conscious of the fact that women certainly throughout history have been underrepresented. If you start a book with homer and go all the way up it is not until the late 19th century or the middle the 20th century where the outputs become equal. So you will have an imbalance there. In terms of ethnicity and race in language, it was the same thing, i was conscience of not following any other dictate to what it would be then other than good reading. There is a fair representation of those different categories although not as rich as i would like it to be for reasons having to do with my own limited reading but also having to do with the nature of literary history. Given that 1000 book list is a moving target, can you tell us about the book that made it onto the list in the thousand and one books that did not. The last book that i wrote was about a book called the most recent book in the book. It is the personal history of technology by ellen allman which is published last year. That is a marvelous book, shes a very interesting writer, she began her career as a Software Developer in Silicon Valley in the very early days. She was one of the few Women Developers at the time. About 20 years ago she wrote a book that is become a classic among coders called close to the machine which is a how coders think and so on. And then she went on to write two novels, one called by blood and last year she published the book life and code which is a series of essays, it is about technology but its more about the world of Technology Made for us and how we live in it today. It is a marvelous book, you learn a lot about technology and coding, shes a marvelous writer, thats part of the book that he given to the most people myself because i wanted to read in the past year. The one that did make it or the last one thatt was there is a Childrens Book, page orchard a picture book called burnt toast on n devonport street and it isa marvelously funny delightful warm book about a family of animals, its a great picture book to read tood a toddler but its important to me and because i discovereded this book one day in the Childrens Bookstore in manhattan where i was with my younger daughter, she was about three years old. And she was wondering around when margo and i and her older sister were looking and she had this book at her i t level, she marched over and she took it off the shelf and she brought it over to me and said i want this one. And i brought it home and read it to her and that was the first of 792 readings of that book and it was a great book. So i was so delighted that she had somehow through osmosis gone the bookselling team so she knew immediately it was a great book. That was a great personal attachment to me but that did not make the cut. Youre putting your whole family to work. We have time for one finalam question. My question would be whether any authors you mightve shortchanged with multiple entries because you like the author so much but you had to put in an author who had one great book but maybe not as good as the second or third book of doctor dickens. The whole project has been plagued with that kind of issue. Whether the person was in the book at all or whether you can put more books in, there is about three dozen authors a hub more than one book and even some of those now looking back, im not sure i got right, Virginia Woolf has for books, shes a marvelous writer and the more i read at this point in my life, the more astonished i was. But when i finish the book and i went back and read a novel of the waves which i believe is better than any of the books i read about in it. So is always changing and always knew. There are so many books that could be in here, the book is alphabetical by author so in the 80s a loaas alone, the poetry,e novels, military history over cac and sin, i could go on and on with the stuff that i left out. But a part of me that every day since i finishbo this book feels like a slacker. It is quiz time, we will figure out who is the best well read people here. We are we will trust you to evaluate your own work. Is everybody ready. Question number one who said the good reader makes a good book. That was ralph emerson, wonderful quote. Question number two, in which decade is christopher berlin stories set. That is in 1930. What french tell me what you eat and ill tell you what you are. That was the physiology of tas taste. This one is pretty amazing, how long did it take for the first english translation of victor l hugos 1500 plus page 1862 novel to appear. Charles edwin wilbers english translation appeared in 1862, the same year as the bricks publication in france. Its the mark of hugos popularity that translators working in several other tongues matched the achievement. There were multiple International Additions of the 1500 page book in the year of its publication. Which is pretty amazing. And what novel had did the sentence appear, nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. That was from the picture of dorian gray i oscar wilde. Andy also quoted himself in the play, he use the same line. That was after the period fill in the blanks of o this line frm Philip K Dick and his election commentary. It is sometimes inappropriately response to blank to go blank. The answer is b, reality insane. Sometimes a appropriate response to reality to go g insane. What bestselling series of historical novels n n were writn by the english translator of simones the comingofage. One of the most prolific translators was Patrick Obrien who wrote all the ships hearing tales, are they mature and i was master commuter being the first one and made a movie with russell crowe. That is how he made his living for a long time before his novels became popular. Alfords pioneering 1957 Science Fiction novel the stars my destination, r the retelling of what 19th century french classic, that is the count of montecristo. What late blooming bibliophile is a central figure in the uncommon reader. That would be Queen Elizabeth the Second Period the pen name for the Science Fiction alex Bradley Sheldon was james juni junior. What performer starred in the iconic 1939 film abdo tatian of the wizard of oz in the 1956 american premier of Samuel Becketts waiting for caddell. It was the cowardly lion and he played echelo extra long. What book of the a bible plays a pivotal role for the protagonist of the fahrenheit 451. Does the book of ecclesiastes. His make a way for ducklings is a classic which never grows old, which of the four names does not belong to one of the eightoe little ducks, mr. And mr. Lead across boston. Quack, the answer is c back what awardwinning 2010 novel that wrote seven several pages of his narrative to powerpoint charts. That is by jennifer egan. This is one of my favorites. Which heroin of a Childrens Book series has been cited by three and some frui supreme cout justices as a form of influence. Nancy drew. Sandra day oconnor, ruth gator binns s berg and interviews apat when there all last what said to down the path of the life in the law and they said the teacher. Which book did dorothy right, this is the greatest review of all time. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force. That is interestingly enough, the novel is the only fiction of muzzle leaning, it was called the cargoes mistress what do dan brown in Gretchen Wilber have in common. They are all graduates of amherst when bob dylan won the nobel prize in literature in 2017, he became the second one to be awarded that size and in an Academy Award, who is the other. George brennan shaw won the Academy Award for best ratings screenplay with Wendy Hillard and leslie howard. When this news was brought to him in london he reportedly said i have never been so insulted ie my entire life. Who invented the raised stream of consciousness. That was william james. What naturalist has more than 300 plant in 1000 animals name for him in more places on earth then heavens than any other person in history. That is Alexander Van humboldt. I have that in the book of andrea wolf the invention of nature which is about him that i highly recommend. That is where he learned that. This one is for i am sure all of my fellow graduates from the Catholic Hospital in the bronx who hear will know this immediately proved what autobiography does the phrase give me chastity and selfrestraint but dont do it just yet appear. Thats in the confession of saint augustine. Which of its own works was dickinsons favorite, the stephen copperfield. The response to which 19 seminary model would be jane eyre. What novelist whose ashes are interred at a poets corner in Westminster Abbey had his heart. And st. Michaels church road. That is thomas hardy whose biography should have been written by stephen king. [laughter] what was the working title of josephs catch22 for the eight years he spent writing the book. It was catch 18. He spent eight years working on this book in his own head it was called catch 18 and then a few months before publication of his book, a book called myla 18 came out and it was a great bestseller. As a publisher said you have to change the title because people will be confused withfu the 218 books and youd have to come up with another one and they came up with catch22. Which actually sounds funnier and catch 18 for some reason. All right, the last question for too long. [applause] you all go ahead and tally it up. Are you ready. Tell me who is gone 20 or more questions correct. Its going to be like an auction. Who has 18 or more correct, 15 or more correct. 12 or more . [applause] the first price 100dollar gift card and lots of books. Nice job. So we are at 12 right. Ten . [applause] that is a 50 gift card and tons of books. And lets try for nine, 11, anymore 11s . Who has nine . Those of the fourth and fifth prizes, and loads and loads of books. Thank you so much james you were a great audience. Thank you cspan, james is going to stick around and sign copies of his book. Thank you. [inaudible conversations] sunday at 9 00 p. M. 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