Name: Erwin Lemuel Oliva's review of The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Author: Erwin Lemuel Oliva

F. Scott Fitzgerald

'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life' Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing that can never be fulfilled. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby, by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, is one of the great novels of twentieth-century literature. Set in the Long Island of 1922, it provides a critical social history of America during the “Roaring Twenties”, an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the “Jazz Age”, known for unprecedented economic prosperity, the evolution of jazz music, flapper culture, and bootlegging and other criminal activity. A historic period when “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession”, as classified by The New York Times.

Ria F

"I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor."

...he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. 

Caroline 

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”

I began to have a feeling of defiance, of scornful solidarity between Gatsby and me against them all. 

“I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool- that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

Giulia Pascoli 

Only Gatsby- the man who gives his name to this book -was exempt from my reaction. Gatsby who represented everything for which I have an affected scorn. If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines the register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.  It was an extraordinary gift for hope, a romantic readiness such as I have never found in any other person and which it is not likely I shall ever find again.

Sheridan Sweeney 

Generally considered to be F. Scott Fitzgerald’s finest novel, The Great Gatsby is a consummate summary of the ‘roaring twenties’ and a devastating exposé of the ‘Jazz Age’. Through the narration of Nick Carraway, the reader is taken into the superficially glittering world of the mansions which lined the Long Island shore of the American seaboard in the 1920s, to encounter Nick’s cousin Daisy, Jay Gatsby and the dark mystery which surrounds him.

The Great Gatsby is an undisputed classic of American literature from the period following the First World War and is one of the great novels of the twentieth century.

i <3 this sentence. sums up the experience of finishing the novel

kemi

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby’s impossible love for a married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.

Regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the “Jazz Age”, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.
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Neesha Balapitiya 

‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it's a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool-that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Stephanie 

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.

I can confirm that this works out perfectly. 

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don’t see or care.

I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

Still thinking about this and how I would answer it. 

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others […] wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

Can we take a moment to appreciate Fitzgerald‘s writing style please? 😮‍💨🤌🏼

I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

“Well, I’ve had a very bad time, Nick, and I’m pretty cynical about everything.”

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,” he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

Caitlin

"They're a rotten crowd," I shouted across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

 He nodded sagely. "And what's more I love Daisy too. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time."

"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."

He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced — or seemed to face — the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

‘All right,' I said, ‘I’m glad its a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

Kaitlyn Grace

Erwin Lemuel Oliva

This is one the best prose I have read. F. Scott Fitzgerald is truly a master of the English language. His narratives, the dialogues, and his wild imagination bring to life almost real characters like Nick, Daisy, Tom, and Jordan. For this to be written in the 20s and yet sound like it was done today exemplifies the unique and contemporary voice of Fitzgerald. It resonates to this day. The life of extravagance, of unrequited love, of betrayal, of lies--all of that in this short and yet compelling novel.

A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann's film. 'There was music from my neighbour's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.' Everybody who is anybody is seen at the glittering parties held in millionaire Jay Gatsby's mansion in West Egg, east of New York. The riotous throng congregates in his sumptuous garden, coolly debating Gatsby's origins and mysterious past. None of the frivolous socialites understands him and among various rumours is the conviction that 'he killed a man'. A detached onlooker, Gatsby is oblivious to the speculation he creates, but always seems to be watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. As writer Nick Carraway is drawn into this decadent orbit, Gatsby's destructive dreams and passions are revealed, leading to disturbing and tragic consequences. 'Not only a page turner and heartbreaker, it's one of the most quintessentially American novels ever written' Time F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St Paul, Minnesota in 1896. He studied at Princeton University before joining the army in 1917. In 1920 he married Zelda Sayre. Their traumatic relationship and subsequent breakdowns became a major influence on his writing. Among his publications were five novels, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Beautiful and the Damned, Tender is the Night and The Last Tycoon (his last and unfinished work); six volumes of short stories and The Crack-Up, a selection of autobiographical pieces. F. Scott Fitzgerald died suddenly in 1940.

Jamieson

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” 


The Great Gatsby is my favourite classic, the ultimate reminder that characters can be awful, vapid and annoying and the book can still be good. The ultimate reminder great people aren't always good people. The ultimate reminder we should just stop dreaming for impossible things because doing so leads to DEATH. 

In all seriousness I feel like the Great Gatsby is one of the most misunderstood classics .. it's about so much more then just Daisy and Gatsby, and it's so incredibly complex and symbolic each time I read it I get something more out of it. I don't know, I just think it's an incredible book, an incredible piece of literature and filled with incredibly awful characters 

The prose is amazing. The imagery and language used by Fitzgerald to create and sustain this book is absolutely beautiful, I adore his prose and the way he describes things.



For me, The Great Gatsby is one of those frightening truthful books because it's so harshly realistic We hate Daisy because she's silly, can't make up her own mind about things and constantly needs validation but aren't those the things that make US annoying. 
We're irritated by Nick's unreliable portrayal and yet aren't we all people who will assume and judge people we barely know based on rumours and stories we hear through the press and the media
We despise Tom and Gatsby for their unrelenting pursuit of wealth and glory and yet are we not all people, everyday, striving for that green light, for the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us? 

The thing about the Great Gatsby is nothing has changed. F. Scott Fitzgerald basically prophesied the Great Depression, warned everyone with this little book that the capitalistic dream was decaying and materialism was all consuming but even today don't we still value people's worth by what they have? doesn't out society still assume people who aren't wealthy just "aren't working hard enough". Isn't there a serious moral hole that people fill with stuff 



I don't care what anyone says about how this book is pointless (it's not) or how the characters suck (true, they're supposed to) I love it, and I don't know if any other classic will ever eclipse my love. 


  “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

natalie

read this for school but it was boring LOLZ

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Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby - young, handsome, fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd, watching and waiting, though no one knows what for. Beneath the shimmering surface of his life he is hiding a secret: a silent longing for the one thing that will always be out of his reach. And soon this destructive obsession will force his world to unravel.
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Mary Kasparian

I admit that I read this in-between two incredible classics that this book just didn't shine as much as I hoped it would. However, after the sheer bluntness of Brave New World and the informality of Catch-22, it was nice to read something written in a more elaborate style. "Making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas" for example. Overall it was spare and simple which is nice to come across after some reads. I believe it reflects the spirit of that time period perfectly. This is a satisfactory read that I would recommend to everyone.

Maria Elkoro-Iribe

he really said remember when you hit the brakes too soon twenty stitches in the hospital room when you started crying baby I did too and when the sun came up I was looking at you

so glad zelda fitzgerald wrote this book. an exceptional piece of literature 

esma

The only authorized edition of the twentieth-century classic, featuring F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final revisions, a foreword by his granddaughter, and a new introduction by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. First published in 1925, this quintessential novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the mysteriously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession,” it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s.

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“And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes--a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an æsthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder”

Ruby Long

Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring cottage, is intrigued by the mysterious host, Jay Gatsby, a flamboyant but reserved self-made man with murky business interests and a shadowy past. As the two men strike up an unlikely friendship, details of Gatsby’s impossible love for a  married woman emerge, until events spiral into tragedy.

Regarded as Fitzgerald’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of American literature, The Great Gatsby is a vivid chronicle of the excesses and decadence of the Jazz Age, as well as a timeless cautionary critique of the American dream.
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Amelia 

I’m obsessed. The ambience, the characters, the parties *chefs kiss*

Sometimes you can love someone a little too much. And that’s what led Gatsby to a tragedy. Heartbreaking, beautiful and truely rememberable.

This new edition of The Great Gatsby includes a foreword by critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith, as well as an exclusive extract of his forthcoming novel, NICK, which imagines narrator Nick Carraway's life before he meets Gatsby Enigmatic, intriguing and fabulously wealthy, Jay Gatsby throws lavish parties at his West Egg mansion to impress Daisy Buchanan, the object of his obsession, now married to bullish Tom Buchanan. Over a Long Island summer, his neighbour Nick Carraway, a writer and a cousin to Daisy, looks on as Gatsby and Daisy's affair deepens. Tragedy looms in F. Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece, frequently named among the best novels of the twentieth century. 'A classic, perhaps the supreme American novel' - Sunday Times 'More than an American classic; it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the Amercian dream' - Guardian

Micah

Listen, we all have our "Required Reading in Public School" faves, and this is mine. I'll re-read this book every year until I die at this point.

This is the 2nd time I read this, and it never gets old. I couldn’t remember some parts of the story, and it was so great so read it again. 

Poor Gatsby and the green light across that river.

Inês Lemos S.

This is the 2nd time I read this, and it never gets old. I couldn’t remember some parts of the story, and it was so great so read it again. 

Poor Gatsby and the green light across that river.

Stef

pesan moralnya: kau tida bisa mengubah atau membawa masa lalu kembali ke masa kin bahkan masa depan, atau kau akan berakhir tragis dengan obsesi platonikmu.

El gran Gatsby

me gustó el principio, pero después se me hizo bastante tedioso y solo quería terminarlo.

benja

Liz Michaud

I was forced to read this for school just like every other kid in America for the last what? 30, 40 years maybe more

Ich habe dieses Buch gelesen, weil ich es lesen wollte. Es sei ein Klassiker, ich hatte öfter davon gehört und es war ein Schnäppchen bei Thalia, also habe ich zugeschlagen. Bedauerlicherweise ist es nun wieder ein paar Monate her, dass ich „The Great Gatsby” laß, weshalb ich mir schnell eine Zusammenfassung gegönnt habe. Und siehe da: Ich habe einfach komplett vergessen, dass der Protagonist umgebracht wird. So vergesslich war er, der gute, große Gatsby. 

Die Person, die von den Ereignissen erzählt heißt Nick. Nick ist sehr unsympathisch, obwohl er glaube ich als relatable dargestellt werden soll. Die ganzen Affären, wo alle mit allen schlafen, erinnern mich an C. w. F., was mir nicht sonderlich zusagt. Durch die ersten 100 Seiten war es ein zähes Gelabere, doch die verbliebenen 60 gingen zügig zu Ende. Die ganzen Tode im Finale werten das Buch für mich auf, weshalb 2 Sterne erlangt werden. Ansonsten sehr philosophisch und gesellschaftskritisch, was man mögen kann, ich finde es auf Dauer einschläfernd. 

Leon

Ich habe dieses Buch gelesen, weil ich es lesen wollte. Es sei ein Klassiker, ich hatte öfter davon gehört und es war ein Schnäppchen bei Thalia, also habe ich zugeschlagen. Bedauerlicherweise ist es nun wieder ein paar Monate her, dass ich „The Great Gatsby” laß, weshalb ich mir schnell eine Zusammenfassung gegönnt habe. Und siehe da: Ich habe einfach komplett vergessen, dass der Protagonist umgebracht wird. So vergesslich war er, der gute, große Gatsby. 

Die Person, die von den Ereignissen erzählt heißt Nick. Nick ist sehr unsympathisch, obwohl er glaube ich als relatable dargestellt werden soll. Die ganzen Affären, wo alle mit allen schlafen, erinnern mich an C. w. F., was mir nicht sonderlich zusagt. Durch die ersten 100 Seiten war es ein zähes Gelabere, doch die verbliebenen 60 gingen zügig zu Ende. Die ganzen Tode im Finale werten das Buch für mich auf, weshalb 2 Sterne erlangt werden. Ansonsten sehr philosophisch und gesellschaftskritisch, was man mögen kann, ich finde es auf Dauer einschläfernd. 

"Leaves the reader in a mood of chastened wonder . . . A revelation of life . . . A work of art." —Los Angeles Times Set in during the Roaring Twenties, this masterful story by F. Scott Fitzgerald is told through the eyes of Nick Carraway, a young man who moves to Long Island and attempts to learn the bond business in New York City after the war. There, he co-mingles on Long Island with his affluent and wealthy socialite cousin Daisy Buchanan, her brute of a husband Tom, and friend Jordan Baker. Nick's new residence sits across the bay from Daisy and Tom's house, and right next to a mysterious mansion. He begins to hear rumors of an infamous man named Gatsby who resides there. Eventually, when Gatsby learns of Nick's ties to Daisy, he extends Nick an invitation to one of his lavish parties. Gatsby's plan to court Daisy, in an attempt to revive a previous love affair, eventually bubbles to the surface and tragedy ensues. Dubbed the Great American Novel more than any other piece of literature to date, The Great Gatsby is sure to captivate readers with it's exquisitely crafted prose and poignant message about trying to relive the past. Packaged in handsome and affordable trade editions, Clydesdale Classics is series of essential literary works. From the musings of literary geniuses such as Mark Twain in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, to the striking personal narratives from Harriet Jacobs in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, this new series is a comprehensive collection of our literary history through the words of the exceptional few.

fast paced, good classic, exciting story, really long chapters

zoe troxler

Honey 🍯 

Set in the backdrop of the Jazz Age, The Great Gatsby is regarded as the finest work of the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. Via sharing a tale of the desire of reuniting with one's love, his writing paints the idea of the American Dream of unending pursuits success, money, love and beauty in a sardonic and ironical way.

Narrated by the rather perturbed Nick Carraway, who finds himself drawn in and out of the extravaganza of the Gatsby world, the story is engaging from the early pages of the book itself. Nick introduces us to a variety of unique characters ranging from his undulating cousin Daisy Buchanan, her rather disagreeable husband Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, the witty woman who catches Nick's eye and the grandiloquent Jay Gatsby. Nick himself has only a few admirable qualities but he succeeds in crossing paths with people who keep the story well-bound.

The power of this book was held in its short length. It was a marvel how the author drew such an excellent art under a couple hundred pages. I found the plot rather unconventional and it was intriguing enough keep me hooked. The way each person in this story had their personal share of corruption and over-indulgence was utterly bemusing. Of course I was in awe of the lavish parties thrown in the Gatsby mansion and constantly wished to have the pleasure of attending it at least once. But I doubt I would have agreed to live in West Egg or East Egg. That's the beauty of this book: it reveals to you the truth that had it been you in Nick's place, you wouldn't have been able to make too different a choice than him given you had a moral compass which transcended such iniquitous times; very much like the cliché of a deer caught in headlights. 

At first acquaintance with the characters, I found most of them to be indecisive and unscrupulous beings. But later decided that it was due to their wealth and the circumstances of America in those times, which, I dare say, is unfortunately quite the same even today. This, I realized, is one of the most important reasons why this novel is still significant and continues to be called the greatest American novel.

A fast paced book, written well but just isn't the I best read. I loved it tho, I recommend reading it. 

I still think about some of the quotes, also, gatsby is such an interesting character, especially his emotions and the way he expresses them.

Yalin Tsikun

A fast paced book, written well but just isn't the I best read. I loved it tho, I recommend reading it. 

I still think about some of the quotes, also, gatsby is such an interesting character, especially his emotions and the way he expresses them.

Jacqui Siroia

One of my most favourite novels of all time. The imagery is so beautiful and the writing is so incredibly articulate.

The Great Gatsby is generally considered to be the finest novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Written in an easy style, without complex literary experiment, at the height of the author s maturity, it is now an undisputed classic of American literature and is one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. The novel brilliantly brings out Fitzgerald s central theme of the dark surrounding the brightest light, the shallowness of many human friendships, and the eerie silence as the syncopated rhythm of the jazz fades. It brilliantly captures both the disillusion of post-war America and the moral failure of a society obsessed with wealth and status. The novel tells the story of the mysterious Jay Gatsby, an army lieutenant, who lives in a luxurious mansion on the affluent Long Island shore. His lavish parties for the glitterati of the day had become legendary on the island. Yet amid the throng of guests, starlets and champagne waiters, their host appeared oddly aloof. The parties were to impress only one person, that is, Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby had a brief affair with Daisy before the war and her marriage to Tom....About Author:

Főző Anna

The second half was a little like reading a 1920's version of Wuthering Heights.

Gayathri Jinesh

** spoiler alert **
           For a reader, foreign to American history, especially the Jazz Age (the 1920s), this book would make much less sense. So don't skip the introduction about the same.

I never rated a classic 5 (except Pride and Prejudice), because it makes me feel dishonest. For a classic, this is a pretty good one, and you can finish it in a day.

The levels moral standards are well defined, and the narrator is a decent fellow as we can gather from his actions in the first few chapters, so we tend to resonate with his opinions in the later chapter.

The characters of Tom Buchanan and Mr. Gatsby were developed beautifully, but I couldn't care less about the women. What was the purpose of Jordan's character?

Tom Buchanan was presented as an unlikable guy, from the beginning itself, so the further statements about him just added beautifully to the picture, it was heartwarming.

Maybe the gender roles were so messed up that I didn't care about it. The fight between Tom and Gatsby about who Daisy loved, did not seem to involve Daisy's opinion. Daisy's a character to which stuff happened to. She didn't move through time, time moved through her. And of all the sh*t and roses flying around a few stuck on to her.

The first few chapters built up to too much, and the ending sorta flattened out.

Reading experience was good, the humor and the foreshadowing. 

I'd suggest it if you have a few hours to kill, for the thoughts of the narrator, that you can relate to, than for the storyline as such.

covey

** spoiler alert **
           This book was better than i thought it would be. I enjoyed the difference in their social classes and how those relationships in the higher class were plastic/fake. Gatsby was very symbolic for how people can put themselves out to be something different. He wasn't who everyone put him out to be. The characters were very unlikeable for me. I also enjoyed the fight for the girl which struck in murder and the end of two men and a innocent woman. Book in all was good but straight up dumb. 
It was a very good classical novel but I won't be re-reading it..

felicity yoon

Are the symbols, motifs, and language superb?
Yes, yes 

Characters?
Not so much, I wonder will there be someone like Jay Gatsby in real life. Also Nick, the narrator, he doesn't seem to have anything in particular. 

But I must assure that Fitzgerald killed it: the greatest American novel of all time? In portrayal of Americans achieving dreams after war and how it's seem unrealistic for the ordinary man to succeed reflect in Jay Gatsby character. 

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made..'

I think I might prefer John Steinbeck in regard with the same motif. His novels depict realistic American character.

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