mundus imperfectus
May. 5th, 2022 06:34 pmI was going to go last week but oh! it’s Art in Bloom time. Also, there’s a new exhibit but I didn’t have time for that. I think I missed my chance to see the Remedios Varo painting until the Art of the Americas top galleries are redone. The entire Art of the Ancient World got an overhaul and there’s a new Byzantine gallery.
These are my pictures, which means I don’t have to scour an increasingly user-hostile Instagram. You’d think Musk could buy that instead of Twitter because there’s no way he could mess it up more than Zuckerberg did.
I encountered Gabriella on the way in, and we discussed things like the Italian language (they’re very particular about the vowels, she says) and books and concerts and cats. She wasn’t on the green line with me so I overheard a guy talking about his cosplay ideas, which include No-Face from Spirited Away and Koro-Sensei because he has a graduation gown and cap and a big orb that can go on his head and he can get a tie. Koro-Sensei reminds me of Emil.
I’d say that most people are still covering their faces. On the other hand, I feel like I can trust most people to be vaccinated. But on the other other hand, I’m still holding my breath for a vaccine that specifically targets the new variants, though I am not going to hold my breath for members of the anti-vax movement to get vaccinated or die or do anything but be a reservoir for even more variants.
When I had lunch, I saved what I had because they had QR codes, but they also had physical menus because, as Mukhiya said to someone nearby, the things don’t always work. A salad of mixed local greens, marinated chickpeas, tahini herb dressing, cucumbers, tomatoes, pickled turnips, fresno chiles, tomatoes, sweet red onion, and seasoned pita crisps, and a raspberry mango mousse cake with vanilla, whipped cream, toasted pistachios, two strawberry halves, and lime sauce. The prickly pear panna cotta with grilled pineapple, whipped cream, hibiscus caviar, and mint syrup also looked really good.

Samuel Bak portrays the Vilnius Ghetto as narrow, windowless stone hovels clustered amongst desolation. It is about universal indifference to crime, discrimination,a and suffering.
I may or may not have shown this one already. I checked my last MFA entry and while there was another piece of art related to the Holocaust, it was not this one. This was given to the museum in 2021 and my most recent visit before that was 2020.

Erica Lord - Breast Cancer Burden Strap DNA MicroArray Analysis
a burden strap, used to carry a small child, made out of beads, patterned from a DNA image of breast cancer cells.

Renie Breskin Adams - Swinging At Club Mood

Amy Lipshie - Midstream

This was at a craft fair.
The first room in the exhibition has walls of dark pine green. the room dealing with industrialization is gray. the war room is blood red. the last room is white and minimalistic.
Most of these paintings are held by Tate Britain. I think the MFA has two paintings, along with a few sketches and watercolors.

Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen
Made during a visit to the Swiss Alps. This is the MFA’s painting. I never noticed because it isn't The Slave Ship.

Depicts a July fair in Wolverhampton.

The Pantheon, the Morning After The Fire
Turner saw the fire that destroyed a London opera house. It was a bitterly cold morning.

The Interior of a Cannon Foundry

A Lime Kiln by Moonlight

Llanstephan Castle by Moonlight. Another lime kiln, a 12th century fortress enclosing an iron age fortification.

Donkeys driving a rotating winch soon to be replaced by steam powered machinery.

Imaginary Landscape with Windsor Castle on a Cliff and a Distant Plain
Windsor Castle and increasing social unrest and hardship in response to the war with France.

Shipwreck on a Rocky Coastline with a Ruined Castle
An imaginary scene with a ruined castle, a shipwreck, and an iron smelting complex.

Fisherman Hauling a Boat through Surf on a Windlass
Turner has a habit of titling his paintings based on what is happening.

Devonport and Dockyard, Devonshire.
Britain was at war throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars. Turner himself never went to war but you can see it in the paintings.

England: Richmond Hill on the Prince Regent’s Birthday
Later King George IV. When he painted this in 1819, this was his largest painting to date.

Sheerness as seen from the Nore

The Chain Pier, Brighton

Chichester Canal

London from Greenwich Park
By 1809, London was the largest city in the world.

Saint Catherine’s Hill, Guildford, Surrey
An October fair. The Red Lion is the name of a local inn. Or was. I don’t know. It seems like it still is. If I ever end up in Europe, I’d visit France or Italy. I mean, assuming Russia doesn’t nuke Paris as revenge for that time Napoleon invaded and they burnt Moscow to the ground to keep him from taking it.

A Country Blacksmith Disputing upon the Price of Iron and the Price Charged to the Butcher for Shoeing his Poney.
A duty on crude iron was imposed to pay for the war in 1806.

St. Mawes, Cornwall
Pilchards were exported in times of peace and sold as cheap fertilizer during the continental blockade.

Windmill and Lock

George IV’s Departure from the Royal George
Painted on mahogany wood.

George IV at the Provost’s Banquet in the Parlaiment House, Edinburgh
I said to a tall woman with wavy hair that I really like the way everything is depicted with smears of color, giving a sense that there is more life in the painting than we can see.
She likes the chandelier.

The New Council Room, Sailsbury

Hythe, Kent
transformed by war

Edinburgh, from Caulton-Hill

More Park, near Watford, on the River Colne

Kirkstall Lock, on the River Aire
Eventually, canals were abandoned in favor of rail.

Ploughing up Turnips, near Slough
Turnips were a key crop in George III’s reign. The farmers were now tied to wages instead of raising their own food on common land.

The Battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the ‘Victory.’
Time is compressed. Nelson is shot by a French sniper at the very moment that the French concede defeat.

The Fortress at Seringapatam, from the Cullaly Deedy Gate
There was more looting in real life.

The ‘Victory’ Returning From Trafalgar in Three Positions

Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing The Alps

Second Sketch for The Battle of Trafalgar

The Prince of Orange, William III, Embarked From Holland and Landed at Torbay, November 4th, 1688, after a Stormy Passage

Spithead: Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbor
Denmark was officially neutral during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Battle of Fort Rock, Val D'Aouste, Piedmont, 1796
By 1815, most of Europe had thought the war over, but Napoleon came back and raised an army. He was defeated for good at Waterloo.

The Field of Waterloo
This isn't my picture but the one I took looks like a screenshot from Xenoblade when played as Wii games 'should' be played, that is to say, on a CRT with the wrong resolution. So here's an image I ganked from the Tate. The lighting is terrible and the resolution is tiny but at least the glare isn't there.


The black gondolas give this a funereal mood.

Turner depicted Venice as a city with its best days long behind it, with vessels reliant on sails or oars. The Dogana and San Giorgo Maggiore was once paired with Keelmen Heaving Coals by Moonlight.

The Doge’s Palace, the prisons, and the bridge that links them. Lord Byron visited Venice and was disappointed to find that it was naught but a shadow of its glorious past.

Venice by Moonlight, with Boats off a Campanile
Day turns to night.

The Temple of Poseidon at Sounion.

Sidmouth, Devon
The rock jutting out from the sea was meant to be lewd. Lord Sidmouth introduced repressive measures in response to post-war social unrest.
Turner came to believe in just causes, the right to vote, the abolition of slavery, religious tolerance.

The Amphitrite was a prison ship bound for Australia that encountered a high wind off the coast of France and sunk. They refused French aid, worried about their prisoners escaping. I can’t find anything about the 108 women and their 12 children. Britain got really execution-happy in between the loss of the American penal colonies (Georgia (That's Carter, not Stalin) was the world's largest debtor’s prison) and the establishment of penal colonies in Australia. They probably just invented petty crimes so they could get cheap labor. If you're a murderer or a pirate or a traitor, you get the blade. You're a kleptomaniac or you looked at a swan the wrong way or you simply don't fit in to British society, you go to Australia.

The Opening of the Wallhalla
A memorial built near Regensburg (Ratisbon if you’ve read A Princess of Roumania or if you’re Turner himself)

Rome
Ovid was exiled from Rome by Augustus.

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834.
While the actual palace was burnt down not by social unrest but by carelessness, Turner still uses the scene to evoke the destruction of the old order.

The Fall of Anarchy (?)
Anarchy is depicted by a skeleton upon a white horse, along Hypocrisy, Murder, and Fraud.
No, I think they had a different definition of anarchy.

Tintagel Castle, Cornwall
A fortification with ties to King Arthur. Industry encroaches upon the landscape.

Newcastle-on-Tyne
I like how Turner depicts Britain as a polluted hellscape.

Steamer and Lightship; A study for ‘The Fighting Temeraire’

Dover
Since Turner is so descriptive, I usually don't have to check to see if the title matches the image.

Dover Castle from the Sea (For ‘Marine Views’)

A steamship comes to the aid of a foundering sailship.

Staffa, Fingal's Cave

Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water
I like the apocalyptic O-class colors here and how they contrast with the apocalyptic M-class sky of The Slave Ship.
I probably should point out somewhere that while slavery existed in other societies, the Atlantic slave trade went above and beyond in brutality.

The Thames above Waterloo Bridge

This is not a naval battle but a scene of industry meant to contrast with the decaying splendours of Venice.

Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel left Harwich.
That whole mouthful is the title.

Ship and Cutter

A Jetty with a Steamboat, Folkstone

Dudley?

Venice with the Salute
A baroque church. It’s unfinished so it looks like morning mists on a bright sunny day.

The Bock and the Rham, Luxembourg, above the Alzette Valley

Distant View of Luxembourg from the Bourbon Plateu
Turner visited Luxembourg after it was granted independence.

Vignette Study for ‘Kosciusko,’ for Campbell’s ‘Poetical Works’
Turner depicts Warsaw in flames during a 1794 uprising against Russia.

Sunset over the Lagoon near Venice

Burning Blubber

A Recollection of Venice: The Giudecca Canal in a Storm
I love the lightning

The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at The Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, 8 October 1844
A generation after the Battle of Waterloo, Queen Victoria invited the French king Louis-Philippe to Britain to improve relations between the two countries.

The Disembarkation of Louis-Philippe at The Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, 8 October 1844
I just copy-pasted the previous title.

The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: The ‘Gomer’ in Portsmouth Harbour
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War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet
Napoleon in exile on a remote volcanic rock, watched by a British sentry. Perhaps this was painted in response to his state funeral in 1840, some 19 years after he died, once they got his remains back to France.
I just got a sense of déjà vu from reading the statement about the mollusk enjoying more self-determination than Napoleon.
Also, I learned that St. Helena has a permanent settlement. They have their own currency. I’d have thought that St. Helena would just have a military base, airport, and/or research station.

Whalers

‘Hurrah’ for the Whaler Erebus! ‘Another Fish’
Turner got the ship name from a survey ship sent to Antarctica.

Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavoring to Extricate Themselves
British whaling operations by 1840 were moribund.

Whalers (‘The Whale Ship’)

Peace - Burial at Sea
David Wilkie died of typhoid en route home from a journey to Turkey and the Middle East, and buried at sea in the Bay of Gibraltar. It was paired with the painting of Napoleon. Turner wished he could get an even deeper black.


Sometimes it's obvious what they're going for.

For example, they nailed the colors on this one.

I like how the flowers look like eyes.



Sometimes it isn't. Although it's a nice touch that the vases match the floor checkerboard.


See my vest, see my vest.







Alan Michelson - Hanödaga:yas (Town Destroyer)
George Washington did not have a good reputation among the Hodenosaunee. Mostly for that whole "revenge against them for not supporting independence" thing. The last one is blacker and less blurry in real life.

No, darker still.














I feel like this should be more blue and less orange and off-white


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I didn't get the title but this was in the Ancient Greece gallery.

In this room, a selection of choral music plays.



Well, the vase is blue, anyway.














Peonies were the national flower of China during the dying days of the Qing dynasty. The PRC has no official flower and Taiwan AKA the Republic of China uses the plum blossom instead.








burning question: has Rowling always been this insufferable or is this yet another consequence of Musk buying Twitter?
These are my pictures, which means I don’t have to scour an increasingly user-hostile Instagram. You’d think Musk could buy that instead of Twitter because there’s no way he could mess it up more than Zuckerberg did.
I encountered Gabriella on the way in, and we discussed things like the Italian language (they’re very particular about the vowels, she says) and books and concerts and cats. She wasn’t on the green line with me so I overheard a guy talking about his cosplay ideas, which include No-Face from Spirited Away and Koro-Sensei because he has a graduation gown and cap and a big orb that can go on his head and he can get a tie. Koro-Sensei reminds me of Emil.
I’d say that most people are still covering their faces. On the other hand, I feel like I can trust most people to be vaccinated. But on the other other hand, I’m still holding my breath for a vaccine that specifically targets the new variants, though I am not going to hold my breath for members of the anti-vax movement to get vaccinated or die or do anything but be a reservoir for even more variants.
When I had lunch, I saved what I had because they had QR codes, but they also had physical menus because, as Mukhiya said to someone nearby, the things don’t always work. A salad of mixed local greens, marinated chickpeas, tahini herb dressing, cucumbers, tomatoes, pickled turnips, fresno chiles, tomatoes, sweet red onion, and seasoned pita crisps, and a raspberry mango mousse cake with vanilla, whipped cream, toasted pistachios, two strawberry halves, and lime sauce. The prickly pear panna cotta with grilled pineapple, whipped cream, hibiscus caviar, and mint syrup also looked really good.

Samuel Bak portrays the Vilnius Ghetto as narrow, windowless stone hovels clustered amongst desolation. It is about universal indifference to crime, discrimination,a and suffering.
I may or may not have shown this one already. I checked my last MFA entry and while there was another piece of art related to the Holocaust, it was not this one. This was given to the museum in 2021 and my most recent visit before that was 2020.

Erica Lord - Breast Cancer Burden Strap DNA MicroArray Analysis
a burden strap, used to carry a small child, made out of beads, patterned from a DNA image of breast cancer cells.

Renie Breskin Adams - Swinging At Club Mood

Amy Lipshie - Midstream

This was at a craft fair.
The first room in the exhibition has walls of dark pine green. the room dealing with industrialization is gray. the war room is blood red. the last room is white and minimalistic.
Most of these paintings are held by Tate Britain. I think the MFA has two paintings, along with a few sketches and watercolors.

Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen
Made during a visit to the Swiss Alps. This is the MFA’s painting. I never noticed because it isn't The Slave Ship.

Depicts a July fair in Wolverhampton.

The Pantheon, the Morning After The Fire
Turner saw the fire that destroyed a London opera house. It was a bitterly cold morning.

The Interior of a Cannon Foundry

A Lime Kiln by Moonlight

Llanstephan Castle by Moonlight. Another lime kiln, a 12th century fortress enclosing an iron age fortification.

Donkeys driving a rotating winch soon to be replaced by steam powered machinery.

Imaginary Landscape with Windsor Castle on a Cliff and a Distant Plain
Windsor Castle and increasing social unrest and hardship in response to the war with France.

Shipwreck on a Rocky Coastline with a Ruined Castle
An imaginary scene with a ruined castle, a shipwreck, and an iron smelting complex.

Fisherman Hauling a Boat through Surf on a Windlass
Turner has a habit of titling his paintings based on what is happening.

Devonport and Dockyard, Devonshire.
Britain was at war throughout the French Revolutionary Wars and the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars. Turner himself never went to war but you can see it in the paintings.

England: Richmond Hill on the Prince Regent’s Birthday
Later King George IV. When he painted this in 1819, this was his largest painting to date.

Sheerness as seen from the Nore

The Chain Pier, Brighton

Chichester Canal

London from Greenwich Park
By 1809, London was the largest city in the world.

Saint Catherine’s Hill, Guildford, Surrey
An October fair. The Red Lion is the name of a local inn. Or was. I don’t know. It seems like it still is. If I ever end up in Europe, I’d visit France or Italy. I mean, assuming Russia doesn’t nuke Paris as revenge for that time Napoleon invaded and they burnt Moscow to the ground to keep him from taking it.

A Country Blacksmith Disputing upon the Price of Iron and the Price Charged to the Butcher for Shoeing his Poney.
A duty on crude iron was imposed to pay for the war in 1806.

St. Mawes, Cornwall
Pilchards were exported in times of peace and sold as cheap fertilizer during the continental blockade.

Windmill and Lock

George IV’s Departure from the Royal George
Painted on mahogany wood.

George IV at the Provost’s Banquet in the Parlaiment House, Edinburgh
I said to a tall woman with wavy hair that I really like the way everything is depicted with smears of color, giving a sense that there is more life in the painting than we can see.
She likes the chandelier.

The New Council Room, Sailsbury

Hythe, Kent
transformed by war

Edinburgh, from Caulton-Hill

More Park, near Watford, on the River Colne

Kirkstall Lock, on the River Aire
Eventually, canals were abandoned in favor of rail.

Ploughing up Turnips, near Slough
Turnips were a key crop in George III’s reign. The farmers were now tied to wages instead of raising their own food on common land.

The Battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the Mizen Starboard Shrouds of the ‘Victory.’
Time is compressed. Nelson is shot by a French sniper at the very moment that the French concede defeat.

The Fortress at Seringapatam, from the Cullaly Deedy Gate
There was more looting in real life.

The ‘Victory’ Returning From Trafalgar in Three Positions

Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing The Alps

Second Sketch for The Battle of Trafalgar

The Prince of Orange, William III, Embarked From Holland and Landed at Torbay, November 4th, 1688, after a Stormy Passage

Spithead: Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbor
Denmark was officially neutral during the Napoleonic Wars.

The Battle of Fort Rock, Val D'Aouste, Piedmont, 1796
By 1815, most of Europe had thought the war over, but Napoleon came back and raised an army. He was defeated for good at Waterloo.

The Field of Waterloo
This isn't my picture but the one I took looks like a screenshot from Xenoblade when played as Wii games 'should' be played, that is to say, on a CRT with the wrong resolution. So here's an image I ganked from the Tate. The lighting is terrible and the resolution is tiny but at least the glare isn't there.


The black gondolas give this a funereal mood.

Turner depicted Venice as a city with its best days long behind it, with vessels reliant on sails or oars. The Dogana and San Giorgo Maggiore was once paired with Keelmen Heaving Coals by Moonlight.

The Doge’s Palace, the prisons, and the bridge that links them. Lord Byron visited Venice and was disappointed to find that it was naught but a shadow of its glorious past.

Venice by Moonlight, with Boats off a Campanile
Day turns to night.

The Temple of Poseidon at Sounion.

Sidmouth, Devon
The rock jutting out from the sea was meant to be lewd. Lord Sidmouth introduced repressive measures in response to post-war social unrest.
Turner came to believe in just causes, the right to vote, the abolition of slavery, religious tolerance.

The Amphitrite was a prison ship bound for Australia that encountered a high wind off the coast of France and sunk. They refused French aid, worried about their prisoners escaping. I can’t find anything about the 108 women and their 12 children. Britain got really execution-happy in between the loss of the American penal colonies (Georgia (That's Carter, not Stalin) was the world's largest debtor’s prison) and the establishment of penal colonies in Australia. They probably just invented petty crimes so they could get cheap labor. If you're a murderer or a pirate or a traitor, you get the blade. You're a kleptomaniac or you looked at a swan the wrong way or you simply don't fit in to British society, you go to Australia.

The Opening of the Wallhalla
A memorial built near Regensburg (Ratisbon if you’ve read A Princess of Roumania or if you’re Turner himself)

Rome
Ovid was exiled from Rome by Augustus.

The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834.
While the actual palace was burnt down not by social unrest but by carelessness, Turner still uses the scene to evoke the destruction of the old order.

The Fall of Anarchy (?)
Anarchy is depicted by a skeleton upon a white horse, along Hypocrisy, Murder, and Fraud.
No, I think they had a different definition of anarchy.

Tintagel Castle, Cornwall
A fortification with ties to King Arthur. Industry encroaches upon the landscape.

Newcastle-on-Tyne
I like how Turner depicts Britain as a polluted hellscape.

Steamer and Lightship; A study for ‘The Fighting Temeraire’

Dover
Since Turner is so descriptive, I usually don't have to check to see if the title matches the image.

Dover Castle from the Sea (For ‘Marine Views’)

A steamship comes to the aid of a foundering sailship.

Staffa, Fingal's Cave

Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steamboats of Shoal Water
I like the apocalyptic O-class colors here and how they contrast with the apocalyptic M-class sky of The Slave Ship.
I probably should point out somewhere that while slavery existed in other societies, the Atlantic slave trade went above and beyond in brutality.

The Thames above Waterloo Bridge

This is not a naval battle but a scene of industry meant to contrast with the decaying splendours of Venice.

Snow Storm – Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth Making Signals in Shallow Water, and going by the Lead. The Author was in this Storm on the Night the Ariel left Harwich.
That whole mouthful is the title.

Ship and Cutter

A Jetty with a Steamboat, Folkstone

Dudley?

Venice with the Salute
A baroque church. It’s unfinished so it looks like morning mists on a bright sunny day.

The Bock and the Rham, Luxembourg, above the Alzette Valley

Distant View of Luxembourg from the Bourbon Plateu
Turner visited Luxembourg after it was granted independence.

Vignette Study for ‘Kosciusko,’ for Campbell’s ‘Poetical Works’
Turner depicts Warsaw in flames during a 1794 uprising against Russia.

Sunset over the Lagoon near Venice

Burning Blubber

A Recollection of Venice: The Giudecca Canal in a Storm
I love the lightning

The Arrival of Louis-Philippe at The Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, 8 October 1844
A generation after the Battle of Waterloo, Queen Victoria invited the French king Louis-Philippe to Britain to improve relations between the two countries.

The Disembarkation of Louis-Philippe at The Royal Clarence Yard, Gosport, 8 October 1844
I just copy-pasted the previous title.

The Arrival of Louis-Philippe: The ‘Gomer’ in Portsmouth Harbour
'War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet
Napoleon in exile on a remote volcanic rock, watched by a British sentry. Perhaps this was painted in response to his state funeral in 1840, some 19 years after he died, once they got his remains back to France.
I just got a sense of déjà vu from reading the statement about the mollusk enjoying more self-determination than Napoleon.
Also, I learned that St. Helena has a permanent settlement. They have their own currency. I’d have thought that St. Helena would just have a military base, airport, and/or research station.

Whalers

‘Hurrah’ for the Whaler Erebus! ‘Another Fish’
Turner got the ship name from a survey ship sent to Antarctica.

Whalers (Boiling Blubber) Entangled in Flaw Ice, Endeavoring to Extricate Themselves
British whaling operations by 1840 were moribund.

Whalers (‘The Whale Ship’)

Peace - Burial at Sea
David Wilkie died of typhoid en route home from a journey to Turkey and the Middle East, and buried at sea in the Bay of Gibraltar. It was paired with the painting of Napoleon. Turner wished he could get an even deeper black.


Sometimes it's obvious what they're going for.

For example, they nailed the colors on this one.

I like how the flowers look like eyes.



Sometimes it isn't. Although it's a nice touch that the vases match the floor checkerboard.


See my vest, see my vest.







Alan Michelson - Hanödaga:yas (Town Destroyer)
George Washington did not have a good reputation among the Hodenosaunee. Mostly for that whole "revenge against them for not supporting independence" thing. The last one is blacker and less blurry in real life.

No, darker still.














I feel like this should be more blue and less orange and off-white


<img=https://i.imgur.com/yihfa6w.jpg>
I didn't get the title but this was in the Ancient Greece gallery.

In this room, a selection of choral music plays.



Well, the vase is blue, anyway.














Peonies were the national flower of China during the dying days of the Qing dynasty. The PRC has no official flower and Taiwan AKA the Republic of China uses the plum blossom instead.








burning question: has Rowling always been this insufferable or is this yet another consequence of Musk buying Twitter?
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Date: 2022-05-06 09:52 pm (UTC)