"Only connect! . . .Live in fragments no longer.” E. M. Forster, Howards End (1910), ch. 22
‘One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep, ‘Hammer* your thoughts into unity’. For days I could think of nothing else and for years I tested all I did by that sentence [...]” William Butler Yeats (cited in Frank Tuohy, Yeats, 1976, p.51)
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Explore Texas!
a freshman seminar
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FS 301 05 SCHEDULE
subject to change
Sept. 13: LR Goals
Sept. 20: LR A1 and A2
Sept. 27: P1A electronic
post on Blackboard Discussion Board
Oct. 4: P1A hard copy
Oct 18: P1B
Oct. 25 : LR midterm
Nov. 1: P2A post
Nov. 15: P2A hard copy
Nov. 29 P2B
Dec. 13: LR Final due in Par 132 1:30-3 or earlier OR -50 POINTS
Dec. 19: Portfolio due in Par 132 1:30-3 or earlier OR -100 POINTS
Dec. 21. Portfolio returned, Par 132 1:30-3: UNLESS YOUR PORTFOLIO IS ENTIRELY ELECTRONIC YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO OR LOSE 100 POINTS
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Journal Due; L=Learning Record Due; C = Class Presentation Due; P=Project
Due; R= Responses to Projects Due; G=Graded Discussion; I=In-class writing
project
Sept. 6 Fac 7: Questionnaires + Time Management Plan due Course Introduction, Journaling, etc.Introduction to reading and writing with computers, including BLACKBOARD, webspace, MOO, hypermedia, etc.
1-8 Schedule of Readings and Assignments*
9-16 Reading Assignments for Sept.*
17-20 Class Participation, Presentations, and Leadership*
21-24 Course Description
25-27 Course Goals
28-34 Journaling and Discussion Board Instructions*
70-71 Class Participation: Listening
72 Racial Harassment Policy
73-74 Sexual Harassment Policy
850-1 Drug and Alcohol Policy
LEAD ME NOT INTO TEMPTATION
852-856 Tennyson, “Lotos Eaters” (cf. Odyssey IX: 82 ff.)
857 “Lotos Eaters” discussion questions
75-76 Learning Skills Center (Motivation, Procrastination, Learning Styles)
849 Successful Student Traits incl."Good computer skills...Strong writing skills"
77-78 Grades Definition
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COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION
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79 PC vs. MAC
80 Changing your email address for Blackboard
81-82 Putting Pages on the Web Using Webspace
83- 100 Introduction to the Moo
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Psychology of Writing
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162-163 Stress
164-165 Motivation
166-169 Overcoming Procrastination
170-174 Perfectionism: the Double-Edged Sword
175-176 Time Management
177 Goal Setting
INTERNET "READING"
Time Management
Learning Skills Center Motivation and Goal Setting site
Learning Skills Center Time Management Site
Learning Skills Center Procrastination Site
Class Participation and Leadership
Our virtual model of a world to which you can contribute now: find openings, opportunities for you in the world: MAPPA MUNDI (just hit Enter for the password; Mac users use Firefox)
Sept. 13 Fac 7;"'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 'Well, I should like to be a little larger, Sir, if you wouldn't mind', said Alice"
+ Bring your calendars so that we can decide in class when we visit (1) the Japanese Garden in Zilker park; (3) and if and when we perform from the Alice books while rowing at Zilker Park; and (4) when we have our class party at my little ranch. +
YOUR ALMA MATER
298 U. T. Core Values
299 U. T. Traditions
922-927 "Main Building and Tower"
300 The Tower
301-302 Tower interior: Hall of Noble Words
303 Tower motto
THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY
304 Texas Constitution : “for the promotion of literature”
305 U. T. Seal
306-307 Flawn, Address to the University, 1984
308-313 Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourses 5-7
318 Boyer/Carnegie Research Univ. Report
319-320 Newman and the Liberal Arts
321-324 Giametti, Yale Freshman Address, 1985
325-327 "Revenge of the Right Brain"
TEACHING PHILOSOPHIES
330-331 Discovery Learning Project
332 Discovery Learning
333 Discovery Learning in the Alice Books?
334 The U. T. Moore Method
335-336 Discovery Learning in Freshman English at Amherst College
337 My Teaching Philosophy & the Carnegie Report
INTERNET "READING"
What is the Instructor Looking For in the Projects?
What Are the Other Goals of the Projects?
Project 1A,2A Goals and Requirements
Victoria's R. L. Moore ghost on the MOO (Mac users use Firefox)
Books by Margaret Catherine Berry on the history of the University of Texas
MOO as world to which you can contribute: MAPPA MUNDI (Mac users use Firefox)
review, connect, hammer into unity:
28-34 Journaling and Discussion Board Instructions*
prepare any questions you might have on pp.1-100 that have not yet been answered
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Sept. 20 Fac 7 "Who Are You? " said the Caterpillar (repeatedly). Are you an introvert or an extravert or .....? LR: A1 + A2 due LR instructions +
J Have You Learned to Think for Yourself? Creativity 101: chaos and uncertainty, especially as they relate to your choice of topic for your project.......
35-38 Learning Record Instructions*
858 Undergraduate Writing Center FAC 211
859-860 Cut and Paste: the road to expulsion from U.T.
861-871 Doing Honest Work in College
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WRITING
139-142 Teaching/Learning Styles, for LR A2
143-152 Writing Styles, for LR A2
153-161 Dass, “The Witness,” for LR writing
CREATIVITY
178 Think for Yourself
179-180 Wild Mind vs. Monkey Mind
181 “Flow”
183 Frustration, a Stage of the Creative Process
184 Blocks to Creativity: Pride/hubris vs. humility
185 Keats: Shakespeare’s Negative Capability
186 “The Mystery”
187 Inspiration
188 Oxford Motto: Psalm 27: “God” as source of creativity
189-193 Language Change as Creativity: the Whorf hypothesis
194 Literature as Inspiration: Keats on Chapman’s Homer
195-196 GHOSTS: Ancestral Voices of The Collective Unconscious as Inspiration
392-394 How ancestral voices of your alma mater can inspire you: Hopkins's "Duns Scotus's Oxford"
197-213 Key to HRC ghost windows
CREATIVITY AS THE TRANSCENDENCE OF DUALISM
214 Bump, Dualism and Creativity
215 Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
216-229 Rico, Two Modes of Knowing, Writing the Natural Way
INTERNET "READING"
LR (Learning Record) instructions
Experiencing the ghosts at U.T.: an example
MOO as world to which you can contribute: MAPPA MUNDI (Mac owners use Firefox)
review, connect, hammer into unity: 298-337______________________________________________________________________________
Sept. 27 : P1A version DUE. Meet at HRC 2nd floor.
P1A electronic version: post on the Blackboard "Project One" Discussion Board before class
Who Are You? Are You Your Language?Are You An Instrument of the Ghosts of the "Collective Unconscious" ? Getting In Touch With The Genii Locii of Your Alma Mater and Your Linguistic Heritage.
+ I: Carroll, Hemingway + rewriting:
973 Campus Map
934-935 Harry Ransom Center
The illustrations of the Alice books
450-456 Dodgson’s handwritten Alice with his own illustrations
INTERNET "READING"
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/online/carroll/
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/beerbohm.html
Dodgson in MAPPA MUNDI
review, connect, hammer into unity:
392-394 How ancestral voices of your alma mater can inspire you: Hopkins's "Duns Scotus's Oxford"
195-196 GHOSTS: Ancestral Voices of The Collective Unconscious as Inspiration
197-213 Key to HRC ghost windows
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Sept. 27-30: R Collaborative Creativity
64-65 How to Respond to the Projects of Others*
How to Respond to Other Students' Projects
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Oct. 4: P1B hard copy due: Project instructions
Meet at Waller Creek at the statue of the mother holding the baby behind the Texes Exes building
"and then -- she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains."
J Campus landscape architecture: Waller Creek Retreat and Renewal
314- 317 Newman, The Site of a University
658 Waller Creek, introduction
659 Jones, introduction
660-666 Jones, from Life on Waller Creek (1982)
667-672 Jones, "Anatomy of a Riot," Battle of Waller Creek
673 "Committed 'til Death"
673B Recent incident at Cornell
674-676 Oliphant, “San Jacinto”
677 Monet’s Poplars (poor reproduction)
417-419 Hopkins’s Oxford: “Binsey Poplars”
INTERNET "READING"
review time management, stress, and need to learn concentration, "relax[ing] and do nothing rather frequently," and consider again the VALUE OF MEDITATION: Improved Mental Abilities: Increased intelligence, increased creativity, improved learning ability, improved memory, improved reaction time, higher levels of moral reasoning, improved academic achievement, greater orderliness of brain functioning, increased self-actualization. http://www.tm.org/research
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Oct 11 Fac 7 : C Road Map Due: The Power of Places in Your Life: How Your Places Have Made You Who You Are.
Assignment Due: Bring to class a visual representation of the most important "places" you have experienced over the course of your life. Can be in the form of a graph or a mandala or a map or computer program or ...... For electronic examples, see web site, but all electronic examples but be "htm" rather than "ppt" files (save your ppt file as htm). This will become part of your portfolio.
Where Did You Come From? Where is Your Home? Why Are You Here? What Is Your Pilgrimage? Where Are You Going After Graduation?
Alice says to the Cheshire Cat: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
293 Road Map of Places in Your Life
294-297 Road Map of Your Journey
750-751 Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.
390-391,420-421 The experience of place
230-237 Shifting to the Visual Mode: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
249-259 Semiotics, from The World is a Text
260-264 Place theory + topistics, Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World
265-269 Terms for sense of place: genius loci, querencia, inscape, instress
270-274 Lopez, “A Literature of Place”
NATURE AS PLACE
275 Wordsworth, “Michael, A Pastoral Poem”
HOME AS PLACE
276 Pater, introduction
277-279 Pater, “The Child in the House”
SCHOOL AS PLACE
280 Dickens, introduction
281-284 Dickens, from Hard Times [math vs. mystery]
285-288 Shideler, “The Classroom’s Sense of Place”
289-292 Pink Floyd, “The Wall”
238-248 Faigley, “Effective Visual Design” in Writing
750-1 connect road maps to shells and idea of pilgrimage.
INTERNET "READING"
scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.
examples
of road maps from
examples of electronic road maps: from last year's Senior Seminar: Amy , Andrew , Kristin , Mali ,Nicole , Raj,
from E603:Victoria, Jessica,Brette
campus sites, local sites, hill country sites
person/place connections in MAPPA MUNDI
Oct. 16 I Zilker excursion: bring anthology and writing materials and meet at the Bamboo hut in the Taniguchi oriental garden at 3:30; 23 points to be earned, -23 points if you do not attend.
678 map of Zilker park, including Botanical Garden
679 Map of Zilker Botanical Garden, including Bamboo Hut
680-681 Isamu Taniguchi
682 Taniguchi, "The Spirit of the Garden"
682B Reading It in the 21st Century
682C-E “NeoConfucian Manifesto
683-692 Bauld, “The Mother Tree”
693 Form for visit to the garden
694 Zilker Park extra credit options,
695-696 Philosopher’s Rock
697 Hartman Prehistoric Garden
INTERNET "READING"
Class "Ranch" Party
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Loss of childhood; homesickness, nostalgia
872-893 U. T. Freshman Write About Homesickness & Nostalgia
894-895 Krogue, “Five Stages of Grief”
review,
connect, hammer into unity:
Oct 25 LR Midterm LR instructions
Meet at Bob Bullock Story of Texas museum at Martin Luther King Blvd. and Congress/Speedway. I Who Are You? A Texan?
.Bring $17.50 ($11.50 if you are 18 or younger) and plan to tour the exhibits and attend Spirit Theatre at 4:30 and the 3-D movie Texas at 5 . In class writing will be assigned about the exhibits, the Spirit theater, and the movie.
752-755 Story of Texas Museum
973 Map of Campus
INTERNET "READING"
Bob Bullock Story of Texas Museum
My Story of Texas Museum images
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NOV. 1 P2Apost Project instructions before class, and then Meet at Dobie's house 702 E. Dean Keeton St. (now the Michener Center for Writers). Opposite chilling station no. 4 and the law school.
Who Are You? A Longhorn?
J The Dobie walk: literature, sculpture, art, and architecture.
973 Map of Campus
538 Ransom, on Dobie
539-542 Dobie introduction
543-544 Bibliography
545-562 J. Frank Dobie, The Longhorns
563-582 J. Frank Dobie, The Mustangs
572-573 querencia
583-584 Mustangs at U.T.
585-590 Longhorns at U.T.
591 Longhorns Our Totem Animal?
592 Reverence for cattle in India
593-594 The Texas Myth: Webb & McMurtry
905-6, 909-10, 929- Stadium, Alumni Center, Power Plant,
INTERNET "READING"
The Texas Longhorn at The Alumni Center
The Freedom Mare at The Alumni Center
Philosopher's Rock: Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb
Nature writing of Jones, Bedichek, Dobie, and Webb in university libraries
Find Dobie and Bedichek in MAPPA MUNDI
Nov. 2-4 R Collaborative Creativity
64-65 How to Respond to the Projects of Others*
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Nov. 6, DOWNTOWN EXURSION: meet at northern entrance of the capitol at 4 P.M. 23 points to be earned, -23 points if you do not attend.
756-760 “History is My Home”: A Survey of Texas Architecture
761 U.T.’s neoclassical homes: Woodlawn and Sweetbrush
762-763 Columns and Domes
764-771 Nicholas Clayton, Texas’ First Registered Architect
772-774 Selected Victorian Eclectic “Gothic” Architecture in Texas
775-785 Victorian Downtown Austin
INTERNET "READING"
SELECTED VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS
Victorian Antimodernist Architecture at Oxford: Balliol (virtual tour), Brasenose, Exeter, Ashmolean Art Museum (virtual tour), University Science Museum (virtual tour 1) (virtual tour 2), Oxford Union Library, Keble, ....
Victorian Antimodernist Architecture in London: Westminster Palace (vs. medieval Westminster Abbey)
review, connect, hammer into unity:
750-751 Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.
390-391,420-421 the experience of place
230-237 Shifting to the Visual Mode: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
249-259 Semiotics, from The World is a Text
260-264 Place theory + topistics, Nature and the Idea of a Man-made World
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If you have to do this excursion on your own, follow these directions.
[1] At the capitol, to identify briefly with ancient Greece, either photograph or identify with EXACT locations, examples of Doric, Ionic, and Cornithian columns (one pt. each).
[2] To identify with ancient Rome, lay down on your back as close to the center of the capitol dome as possible. Look up and describe the effect on you of the dome. (up to seven points.) What Roman buildings are famous for their domes (two pts.)
[3] With the map in front of you of Victorian/Historic Downtown Austin, go from building 1 to building 48. Identify the symbol on this building that connects you to ancient Israel (one point).
[4] Proceed to building 47. To identify with medieval Christianity, looking at the front of the building, explain how it fits Ruskin's second principle of "The Nature of Gothic" (one point). Enter the church and describe the effect on you of the interior (up to seven points).
[5] Check out buildings 46, 7, 8, 9, 10 on the way to building 11. To explore your identity as a Texan, identify the examples of Ruskin's fourth principle on the outside of the building (one pt.) and explain the relevance of the term "Widow Maker" to the interior (one point).
Note that all these buildings were built in this town around the same time and thus demonstrate that to be a Texan is also to be an ancient Greek, a Roman, an Israelite, a medieval Christian, and ..........
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Nov. 8 Fac 7: Test on the annotations in the Annotated Alice
review, connect, hammer into unity:
ALL annotations in the Annotated Alice. BRING YOUR BOOKS TO CLASS.
The test will have questions like
"On what page is [name of a person] cited?"
"On what page is [topic] discussed?'
"On what page does [object] appear?"
The answers will often be found only in the notes:
others will be found in Dougill's account of Alice (pp. 395-401, 433-434 in our anthology);
as well as the Alice books themselves.
A few questions will ask you to make connections between the Alice books and Oxford's University Museum For a virtual tour of the museum click here
+ J Alice books as parodies of college life
reading:both Alice books
395-401, 433-434 Alice’s Oxford
457-458 Oxford Allusions in Alice
INTERNET "READING"
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Extra Credit: J compare Carroll's and Tenniel's illustrations
Tenniel's are in your Annotated Alice
450-456 Dodgson’s handwritten Alice with his own illustrations
See more of them in the British Library
review, connect, hammer into unity:
216-229 Rico, Two Modes of Knowing, Writing the Natural Way
230-237 Shifting to the Visual Mode: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
249-259 Semiotics, from The World is a Text
238-248 Faigley, “Effective Visual Design” in Writing
Extra Credit: J Compare Slick's interpretations of Alice to the originals
459 “White Rabbit,” Grace Slick, Jefferson Airplane
460-464 Grace Slick, Wonderland Suite
INTERNET "READING"
review, connect, hammer into unity:216-229 Rico, Two Modes of Knowing, Writing the Natural Way
230-237 Shifting to the Visual Mode: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
249-259 Semiotics, from The World is a Text
238-248 Faigley, “Effective Visual Design” in Writing
BOTH ALICE BOOKS
450-456 Dodgson’s handwritten Alice with his own illustrations
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Nov 15 : P2A Hard Copy Due. Meet at Tower Garden
J Landscape Architecture: Natural Retreats / Recharge Zones
"and then -- she found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool fountains."
I reading
638-639 Klingenborg, Without Walls
640 Definition of “garden”; “Arcadian golden age”
641-643 Tower Memorial Garden
644-645 Forster, introduction
646-651 Forster, “The Other Side of the Hedge”
652-654 Arnold, introduction,
655 Arnold, “Kensington Gardens”
656-657 Definitions of bucolic, pastoral, etc.
408-417,435 Arnold’s dreaming spires, Scholar Gypsy, Thyrsis
447-448 Arnold’s “Scholar Gypsy” + “Thyrsis”
INTERNET "READING"
U. T. Tower Garden/ Biology Ponds
two students at the Biology Ponds
more students at the Biology Ponds
review, connect, hammer into unity:
314- 317 Newman, The Site of a University,
review time management, stress, and need to learn concentration, "relax[ing] and do nothing rather frequently," the VALUE OF MEDITATION: Improved Mental Abilities: Increased intelligence, increased creativity, improved learning ability, improved memory, improved reaction time, higher levels of moral reasoning, improved academic achievement, greater orderliness of brain functioning, increased self-actualization.
http://www.tm.org/research/home.html
186 “The Mystery”
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NOV. 22; J Meet at Littlefield house 24th and Whitis, and then on to All Saints. Are You a Modernist or an Antimodernist? Both? Neither? A Romantic? A Goth?
698-699 Littlefield House
920-921 Littlefield House and Carriage House
700 Gothic
701-722 Ruskin, “The Nature of Gothic”
723-740 numbers not used
741-742 Pugin, introduction
743-746 Pugin, Contrasts
747 Old Main, University of Texas
899-902 Old Main
748-749 Booton, “Spanish Plateresque Architecture”
750-751 Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.
943-951 Story of All Saints Chapel
952- 972 All Saints Windows, a selection
INTERNET "READING"
Oxford Gargoyles and Grotesques
Victorian Antimodernist Architecture at Oxford: Balliol (virtual tour), Brasenose, Exeter, Ashmolean Art Museum (virtual tour), University Science Museum (virtual tour 1) (virtual tour 2), Oxford Union Library, Keble, ....
Victorian Antimodernist Architecture in London: Westminster Palace (vs. medieval Westminster Abbey)
SELECTED VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE IN TEXAS
Salamanca, Spain: a Plateresque example
Find Antimodernism in MAPPA MUNDI
750-751 Iconography of scallop shell stone carvings at U. T.
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NOV. 29; P2B due. Meet at FAC 7:
J Southern European Heritage
898, 903-904, 907, 911-, 938 Berry
on
INTERNET "READING"
Main
Building Tour
architectural details, personalities, sights, sounds
Now & Then
tour of The University of Texas at Austin from the 1920s to 1980s.
Pictorial
Tour
images of classroom buildings, laboratories, museum artifacts, commencement
exercises and more.
Scenes
from the Top
Take a virtual guided tour around the observation deck of the university's
Tower.
WALKING THE FORTY ACRES: BUILDING STONES -- PRECAMBRIAN TO PLEISTOCENE,
Miscellaneous
Campus Buildings
review, connect, hammer into unity:
748-749 Booton, “Spanish Plateresque Architecture”
922-927 "Main Building and Tower"
300 The Tower
301-302 Tower interior: Hall of Noble Words
303 Tower motto
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Dec. 6, Fac 7: SYNTHESIS
J review everything, connect, hammer into unity
especially
214 Bump, Dualism and Creativity
215 Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
216-229 Rico, Two Modes of Knowing, Writing the Natural Way
843 Yeats, “Hammer Your Thoughts”
844 Hopkins, “As kingfishers”
845 Browning, introduction
846-847 Browning, “Two in the Campagna”
848 Forster, “Only Connect”
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Dec. 13: LR Final Due in Par 132: 1:30-3 REQUIRED -50 PTS. IF NOT DONE.
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Dec.
19: Portfolios Due in Par 132: 2-3:30 Portfolio
instructions. REQUIRED -100 PTS. IF NOT DONE.
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Dec. 21 Parlin 132:2-3:30 Portfolios returned:
YOU MUST PICK UP YOUR PORTFOLIO;
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Look up architecture terms here
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