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Novel Approaches: 'Crotchet Castle' by Thomas Love Peacock
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Feb 24, 2025 |
Love and Death: Elegies for children by Ben Jonson, Anne Bradstreet, Geoffrey Hill and Elizabeth Bishop
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Feb 17, 2025 |
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift
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Feb 10, 2025 |
Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Essence of Christianity' by Ludwig Feuerbach
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Feb 03, 2025 |
Novel Approaches: ‘Mansfield Park’ by Jane Austen
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Jan 28, 2025 |
Love and Death: Milton's 'Lycidas'
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Jan 20, 2025 |
Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’
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Jan 13, 2025 |
Conversations in Philosophy: 'Fear and Trembling' by Søren Kierkegaard
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Jan 06, 2025 |
Introducing ‘Novel Approaches’
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Jan 05, 2025 |
Introducing ‘Love and Death’
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Jan 04, 2025 |
Introducing ‘Fiction and the Fantastic’
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Jan 03, 2025 |
Introducing 'Conversations in Philosophy'
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Jan 02, 2025 |
Political Poems: ‘Little Gidding’ by T.S. Eliot
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Dec 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Marcus Aurelius
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Dec 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: Gwerful Mechain’s ‘Ode to the Vagina’
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Dec 18, 2024 |
Coming next year on Close Readings
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Dec 16, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘Sister Outsider’ by Audre Lorde
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Dec 10, 2024 |
On Satire: 'A Far Cry from Kensington' by Muriel Spark
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Dec 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: ‘Station Island’ by Seamus Heaney
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Nov 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Apuleius
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Nov 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: 'Tales of Count Lucanor' by Juan Manuel
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Nov 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘Black Music’ by Amiri Baraka
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Nov 10, 2024 |
On Satire: 'A Handful of Dust' by Evelyn Waugh
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Nov 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: 'The Prelude' (books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth
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Oct 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Juvenal
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Oct 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio’s ‘Decameron’, Part Two
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Oct 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ by Aimé Césaire
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Oct 10, 2024 |
On Satire: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
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Oct 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice
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Sep 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Tacitus
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Sep 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: Boccaccio's 'Decameron', Part One
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Sep 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘The Souls of Black Folk’ by W.E.B. Du Bois
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Sep 10, 2024 |
On Satire: Byron's 'Don Juan'
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Sep 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti, feat. Shirley Henderson and Felicity Jones
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Aug 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Lucan
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Aug 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: 'Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle'
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Aug 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘Hope against Hope’ by Nadezhda Mandelstam
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Aug 10, 2024 |
On Satire: Jane Austen's 'Emma'
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Aug 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman
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Jul 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Plautus and Terence
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Jul 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: Solomon and Marcolf
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Jul 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘The Golden Notebook’ by Doris Lessing
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Jul 10, 2024 |
On Satire: 'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' by Laurence Sterne
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Jul 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen
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Jun 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Lucian
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Jun 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: The Second Shepherds' Pageant
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Jun 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘The Intimate Enemy’ by Ashis Nandy
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Jun 10, 2024 |
On Satire: 'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope
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Jun 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: 'The Masque of Anarchy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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May 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Plato
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May 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: Dame Syrith
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May 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘A House for Mr Biswas’ by V.S. Naipaul
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May 10, 2024 |
On Satire: John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera'
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May 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Apr 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Pindar and Bacchylides
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Apr 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: Fabliaux
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Apr 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘The Human Condition’ by Hannah Arendt
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Apr 10, 2024 |
On Satire: The Earl of Rochester
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Apr 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats
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Mar 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Herodotus
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Mar 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: Old English Riddles
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Mar 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ by Frantz Fanon
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Mar 10, 2024 |
On Satire: Ben Jonson's 'Volpone'
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Mar 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: W.H. Auden's 'Spain 1937'
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Aesop
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Feb 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: The Colloquies of Aelfric Bata
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Feb 18, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone de Beauvoir
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Feb 10, 2024 |
On Satire: John Donne's Satires
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Feb 04, 2024 |
Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
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Jan 31, 2024 |
Among the Ancients II: Hesiod
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Jan 24, 2024 |
Medieval LOLs: Chaucer's 'Miller's Tale'
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Human Conditions: ‘Anti-Semite and Jew’ by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Jan 14, 2024 |
On Satire: 'The Praise of Folly' by Desiderius Erasmus
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Jan 04, 2024 |
Introducing: Among the Ancients II
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Introducing: On Satire
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Jan 01, 2024 |
Introducing: Human Conditions
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Jan 01, 2024 |
The Long and Short: Elizabeth Bowen
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Dec 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Seneca
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Dec 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
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Dec 04, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Alice Oswald's ‘Dart’ and ‘Memorial’
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Nov 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Ovid
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Nov 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: The Digby Mary Magdalene Play
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Nov 04, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Nella Larsen's 'Passing' and Langston Hughes's 'Montage of a Dream Deferred'
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Oct 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Horace
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Oct 15, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: Middle English Lyrics
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Oct 04, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Ted Hughes's 'Gaudete'
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Sep 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Virgil
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Sep 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
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Sep 04, 2023 |
The Long and Short: James Joyce's Dubliners
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Aug 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Lucretius
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Aug 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Aug 04, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ and ‘Kaddish’
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Jul 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Catullus
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Jul 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: Havelok the Dane
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Jul 04, 2023 |
The Long and Short: D.H. Lawrence's short stories
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Jun 23, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Aristophanes
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Jun 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: Le Roman de Silence
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Jun 05, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Hart Crane's 'The Bridge'
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May 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Euripides
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May 17, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: The Lais of Marie de France
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May 04, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Katherine Mansfield's short stories
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Apr 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Sophocles
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Apr 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: The Ancrene Wisse
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Apr 04, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Henry James's short stories
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Mar 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: Sappho
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Mar 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: Bede's Life of Cuthbert
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Mar 03, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Walt Whitman's 'Song of Myself'
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Feb 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: The 'Odyssey'
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Feb 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: Letters and Laments
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Feb 03, 2023 |
The Long and Short: Tennyson's 'Maud'
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Jan 24, 2023 |
Among the Ancients: The 'Iliad'
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Jan 14, 2023 |
Medieval Beginnings: Beowulf
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Jan 04, 2023 |
Modern-ish Poets Live! T. S. Eliot
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Dec 10, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery
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Dec 09, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Charlotte Mew
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Dec 08, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: W. B. Yeats
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Emily Dickinson
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Dec 06, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Derek Walcott
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Dec 05, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Louis MacNeice
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Dec 04, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Adrienne Rich
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Dec 03, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Robert Frost
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Dec 02, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Dec 01, 2022 |
Encounters with Medieval Women: Margery Kempe
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Nov 04, 2022 |
Encounters with Medieval Women: The Wife of Bath
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Nov 03, 2022 |
Encounters with Medieval Women: Julian of Norwich
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Nov 02, 2022 |
Encounters with Medieval Women: Mary of Egypt
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Nov 01, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Robert Lowell
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Oct 10, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Seamus Heaney
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Oct 09, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Sylvia Plath
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Oct 08, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Wallace Stevens
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Oct 07, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: A.E. Housman
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Oct 06, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Stevie Smith
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Oct 05, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Thomas Hardy
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Oct 04, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Elizabeth Bishop
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Oct 03, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: W.H. Auden
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Oct 02, 2022 |
Modern-ish Poets Series 1: Philip Larkin
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Oct 01, 2022 |