Wordgrove Post & Review

THE IDES OF MARCH EDITION:   chaos

Quoted In The Grove:
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
~Alan Huffman

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.
~Shiva Ayyadurai

I’m a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
~Oscar Levant

EndQuote:
I’ve always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.
~Colson Whitehead

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Exercise Prompt for 03/29:   nature

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Chaos is everywhere and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
~Eric Maisel

Disorder is the condition of the mind’s fertility; it contains the mind’s promise, since its fertility depends upon the unexpected, it depends rather on what we do not know… than what we know.
~Paul Valery

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
~Wallace Stevens

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order.
~Norman Spinrad

Chaos and Order are not enemies, only opposites. Chaos and Order combined equal balance.
~Richard Garriott

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One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
~Jeffrey Eugenides

Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
~Katherine Anne Porter

Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system.
~Andrew Stanton

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
~Stephen Sondheim

So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
~Rowan Williams

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Both individuals and societies tell themselves stories to simplify and make sense of the messy chaos of reality.
~Adam Curtis

If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I find it the lesser chaos.
~Robert Brault

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist.
~William Somerset Maugham

We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos – these are the promises art makes.
~Kathryn Harrison

I love mishmash and the chaos of art forms.
~John Tiffany

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Posted From The Grove

We cannot have chaos reign in the streets.
~Daniel Cameron

Civilization must stand up and combat the current collapse of governance, the rise of violence, and the spread of chaos and fear in many parts of the world.
~Rudy Giuliani

When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.
~Monica Crowley

When you look at — when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they’re not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.
~Richard Engel

America is a human brotherhood or it is a chaos.
~Max Lerner

It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.
~Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Undermine their pompous authority, reject their moral standards, make anarchy and disorder your trademarks. Cause as much chaos and disruption as possible but don’t let them take you ALIVE.
~Sid Vicious

I’m interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
~Jim Morrison

Introduce a little anarchy, upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I’m an agent of chaos, and you know the thing about chaos? It’s fair.
~Heath Ledger

Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.
~B J Penn

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Of course, chaos can lead to failure and extinction. But so can order. Far more nations, people, and ideas die of atrophy than die from revolution. Both order and chaos are necessary ingredients for long run success — for sustainability.
~John Ikerd

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I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated — I’m not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization — what I’m trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don’t really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.
~Kehinde Wiley

The sudden collapse of the monarchy that had ruled Russia for three hundred years led to chaos. Russia immediately became, as one participant put it, ‘the freest country in the world.’
~Keith Gessen

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
~Alan Dean Foster

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Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
~Adolf Hitler

We need to use the United Nations Security Council and believe that preserving law and order in today’s complex and turbulent world is one of the few ways to keep international relations from sliding into chaos. The law is still the law, and we must follow it whether we like it or not.
~Vladimir Putin

Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
~Adam McKay

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
~Edith Hamilton

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Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people’s buttons.
~Travis Bradberry

It’s amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.
~Meryl Streep

Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories, and politicians react randomly to every new crisis — leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
~Adam Curtis

Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.
~Daniel Lubetzky

The roots of the word ‘anarchy’ are ‘an archos,’ ‘no leaders,’ which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word ‘anarchy’ is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
~Alan Moore

My only goal ever in a fight was to go in there and create chaos. Now, I want to control the chaos that hate’s created. I want to fight in the right spots.
~Justin Gaethje

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Our enemy of international terrorism respects no laws of warfare or morality, and its individual members take innocent lives, just to create chaos for news cameras.
~Mark Kennedy

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.
~John Pomfret

When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim’s close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
~S J Rozan

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Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos.
~Auguste Comte

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation and prejudice.
~Gore Vidal

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language… one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.
~George Orwell

Think about George Orwell’s three-minute hate from the novel ‘1984’ and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.
~Chuck Palahniuk

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I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it’s all chaos. I call it ‘the dark fear.’ At any moment, the dark fear could come in.
~St Vincent

Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.
~Werner Herzog

China has become a ticking time bomb, facing many wars within, triggered by a number of internal ticking economic and demographic tinderboxes that threaten to bring on that which the Chinese people fear most – ‘chaos’ or ‘luan.’
~Vivek Agnihotri

Man’s greatest fear is chaos.
~Marilyn Manson

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos.
~Will Durant

Chaos half-loosed cannot be long controlled; it is all or nothing.
~Dean Koontz

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.
~Dean Koontz

One man’s idea of perfect order is another man’s chaos.
~Dean Koontz

In times of crisis the artist must rise to the challenge and try to make sense from the chaos.
~Shabana Azmi

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When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.
~Kristin Armstrong

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
~Terence McKenna

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Idealistic reformers are dangerous because their idealism has no roots in love, but is simply a hysterical and unbalanced rage for order amidst their own chaos.
~William Irwin Thompson

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
~Emma Goldman

Abraham Lincoln once noted that ‘the ballot is stronger than the bullet.’ Foreign adversaries, who can’t match the military, economic or diplomatic power of the U.S., understand Lincoln’s wisdom. They seek to sow chaos and confusion in our electoral process to gain an advantage over us.
~Robert C O’Brien

If liberals no longer pride themselves on being the adults in the room, the bulwark against the whims of the mob, our national descent into chaos will be complete.
~Thomas Chatterton Williams

The chaos of two cultures merging is the best time to forge a new identity to unify people, because everyone is looking for answers and everybody’s looking for leadership. That’s when there’s an opportunity to say, ‘OK, this is what we stand for.’ People aren’t set in their ways because everything is up for grabs.
~David Droga

Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
~Lord Byron

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~Kseniya Simonova:  Sand Animation   (8:33)   Ukraine’s Got Talent

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~Bartlomiej Otlowski:  Chaos   (0:56)   geometrics, summed up nicely at the end

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~Alexis Foucault:  Chaos & Order   (3:37)   ponderings, no answers

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~Ollie:  CHAOS   (2:05)   framed out of chaos and entropy > art, of a sort

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Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.
~Joyce Grenfell

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.
~Terence McKenna

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
~Hermann Hesse

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I want to create a market where people from all walks of life can encounter each other in an atmosphere of beautiful chaos, the coming together of kindred souls.
~Rei Kawakubo

Too often, founders make decisions before determining whether they are the right thing to do. These decisions often create chaos in their companies where people are having to jump from the last ‘great idea’ to yet another unproven-and-about-to-be-poorly-executed one.
~Mark Goulston

It’s easy to hire too fast and have chaos and disorganization and insufficient management.
~Stewart Butterfield

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
~Victor Hugo

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
~Phil Knight

One of the key qualities a leader must possess is the ability to detach from the chaos, mayhem, and emotions in a situation and make good, clear decisions based on what is actually happening.
~Jocko Willink

It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal.
~Steve Maraboli

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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
~Herman Melville

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
~Bill Gates

Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos.
~Andy Grove

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The secret of success lies in that old word, ‘Drudgery,’ in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is ‘this one thing I do’ that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
~Orison Swett Marden

Work is a way of bringing order to chaos, and there’s a basic satisfaction in seeing that we are able to make something a little more coherent by the end of the day.
~Alain de Botton

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Like in combat when you’re in chaos, a Navy SEAL in chaos, you cannot be afraid of dying for a cause.
~Vitor Belfort

I call my life a beautiful mess and organised chaos. It’s just always been like that. My entire life things have been attracted to me and vice versa that turn into chaotic nightmares or I create the chaos myself.
~Mindy McCready    (dead, of broken heart, at 37)

Man has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal — for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on.
~Meghan O’Rourke

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A night out isn’t just chaos and hedonism. It can be beautiful as well and there’s a sadness to the end of it.
~Jon Hopkins

It’s a cruel and random world, but the chaos is all so beautiful.
~Hiromu Arakawa

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He just gets progressively more and more stressed and as his anxiety builds up, so does the chaos behind his eyes. That was very fun as an actor to see that sort of bubble over…and him really succumb to his suppressed insanity.
~Aidan Gallagher

Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I’ve often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?
~Marie Windsor

My heart is so light that it’s amazing. I get to play all this grief, all this loss, all this disaster and chaos. It’s hysterically funny. I am very light.
~Linda Hamilton

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Making movies is controlled anarchy, chaos.
~Michael Cimino

Chaos is good for CNN.
~Jeff Zucker

I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
~Federico Fellini

Noir has always shown that greed and chaos are as close as the company we work for or the politicians we vote for.
~Margo Jefferson

I mean, musical theater really informed so much of my life. It just so perfectly brings order to chaos, which is why we love theater.
~Randy Rainbow

One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It’s deliberate chaos.
~Oren Peli

Inarritu’s films focus on the repercussions of a single act that draws people together and simultaneously throws their lives into chaos.
~Elvis Mitchell

Since I came from another part of the world, I expected many differences in the way things worked, but at the end of the day, there actually were more similarities between the American and Indian entertainment industry: the same chaos, creativity, passion, and genius all around.
~Priyanka Chopra

But I like some chaos on the sets which brings in spontaneity both in the cast and the crew.
~Nag Ashwin

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it’s got to be a little messy to be believable.
~John Cameron Mitchell

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Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.
~Wolf Kahn

There’s something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that’s always been comforting to me.
~Adrian Tomine

Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
~Balthus

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Painting calmed the chaos that shook my soul.
~Niki de St Phalle

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
~Otto Dix

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Architecture can’t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn’t real.
~Frank Stella

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space – nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
~Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think.
~Minoru Yamasaki

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~Richard Noble:  The Sam Story   (2021)   (9:54)   stranger than fiction

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~Omeleto:  Stuffed   (19:23)   little shop of horrors turned on its head, operatic

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The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.
~William Irwin Thompson

Technology enables people to improve communication with unprecedented speed, scale and iterative testing. It also allows people to wreak chaos with high leverage.
~Dominic Cummings

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Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means a particular phenomenon, namely that in a nonlinear system the outcome is often indefinitely, arbitrarily sensitive to tiny changes in the initial condition.
~Murray Gell-Mann (the butterfly effect)

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.
~Neil Gershenfeld

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
~Mary Shelley

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.
~John le Carre

Everybody’s a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We’re all trying to experiment to find a way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
~David Cronenberg

I’m a great believer in chaos. I don’t believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator
~Sam Shepard

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There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.
~John Coleman

The impacts of extreme weather are already creating chaos.
~Patricia Espinosa

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena.
~Wilhelm Reich

A good theoretical account must explain all of the evidence that we see. If it doesn’t work everywhere, we have no idea what we are talking about, and all is chaos.
~Angus Deaton

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.
~William Irwin Thompson

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What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.
~Diana Gabaldon

Ultimately, bridging the practice of forensic science and the public’s need for story may be difficult. We crave narrative, order from chaos, a mystery solved, good guys winning out over the bad ones. But science, and forensic science, should be more neutral and, thus, more nuanced.
~Sarah Weinman

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One of the biggest reasons that teachers have trouble with student-centered learning is that they have to give over a level of control to the kids. And, when you do that, you can have chaos, or you can have high levels of learning. Often, teachers are afraid of the chaos.
~Eva Moskowitz

In schools with a history of chaos, the teacher who can keep the classroom calm becomes virtually indispensable.
~Jonathan Kozol

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Blue sky and fine weather can abruptly change to tremulous lightning and rolling thunder. Violent winds and angry rains can abruptly change to serene moonlight and a clear sky. Has the universe ever ceased its workings? Has the universe ever been impeded? Human nature is also like this.
~Hong Zicheng

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
~E O Wilson

We live in a rainbow of chaos.
~Paul Cezanne

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Here at home, we’re in a world of right angles and human construct, so whether it’s cement or plastic or steel, everything is at an angle. But nature is chaos theory in full play.
~Conrad Anker

…I find all states of nature beautiful, and because I want to delight in my garden, not rule it, I just accept my yen to tame the chaos…
~Diane Ackerman

That amazing moment before the chaos of the day starts. Mornings are magical.
~Keith Wynn

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§ MUSIC:

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
~Henry Miller

Beethoven’s music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
~Daniel Barenboim

I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents’ living room and my older brother’s practicing saxophone in his room listening to jazz… a beautiful chaos.
~Josephine de La Baume

I don’t know if it’s a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I’ve lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry.
~Helen Reddy

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I’ve always been enthralled with chaos and mayhem musically, and I loved speaking out and challenging stuff, and I thought, why is my music not representing this?
~Yungblud

I want to create a little chaos and make people’s heads turn.
~Scott Caan

I know I have to live up to the hype wherever I go. If I’m an inch below the standard, it’ll be chaos.
~Jameis Winston

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.
~John Keats

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Music is chaos. When I write songs, I’m opening the door to madness.
~Josh Tillman

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.
~Rudolf Steiner

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
~Yehudi Menuhin

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Anything that’s resolvable is boring, musically. And if it’s too chaotic, you don’t feel tension; it’s chaos.
~James Murphy

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don’t have too much of it.
~Jeff Beck

The mythology is that from chaos comes great work. I actually used to think that when I was younger, and I no longer think that anymore.
~Sarah Paulson

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?
~David Byrne

You get to a point where the kind of beautiful chaos can’t really fuel your creative existence any longer because it’s not stable, however amazing and exciting it may be.
~Kaki King

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I don’t like abrasion while I’m working. I don’t thrive on chaos. I enjoy what I’m doing, and it seems to work better when I am enjoying it.
~Harold Prince

I like order. It allows me to have chaos in my head.
~Dwight Yoakam

Generally, my life is absolute chaos, but when I’m writing songs, it’s very thought out and regimented.
~Jamie Hince

I feel like once the song is done, you put it out there and if people want to do bizarre remixes, if people want to make strange videos, great. You know, like chaos theory applied to the music business.
~Moby

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With Eric Rohmer — as with Mozart, Austen, James, and Proust — we need to remember that art is seldom about life, or not quite about life. Art is about discovery and design and reasoning with chaos.
~Andre Aciman

I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don’t really know anymore.
~Liz Phair

We want to get this good music to as many people as possible because I think it heals, it soothes, I think music is incredibly important, especially in today’s chaos.
~Graham Nash

There’s so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it — it’s a real peaceful thing to me.
~Bill Callahan

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~Theo David:  Chaos Deus Silentium   (3:30)   liturgical, funereal chorus, apocalyptic imagery

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~Grant Kolton:  Greensky Bluegrass • Stress Dreams   (8:14)   just because

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~Stereophonics:  Chaos From the Top Down   (3:51)   from the street

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~Chaos Chaos:  Do You Feel It?   (5:05)   the endless afterward

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There’s a constant tension between the excitement of new people and security with one person. If you go with excitement, you create chaos; you hurt people. There’s jealousy, and it gets very messy. If you have security, it can be boring, and you die inside because of all the opportunities missed.
~Alain de Botton

Chaos is impatient. It’s random. And above all it’s selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.
~Rick Riordan

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Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person’s dating possibilities.
~Veronica Roth

Darkness is the only place, where chaos and peace always met and fell in love with each other.
~Akshay Vasu

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There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.
~Pythagoras

You can say, ‘Well, isn’t it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine’ — well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn’t matter, because that is how it’s represented. It’s been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can’t change it. It’s not possible. This is underneath everything.
~Jordan Peterson

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that’s presented as a female trait.
~John Schneider

I’m definitely more attracted to chaos than to order. The point is, I find the female roles out there very cliche. If we are limited to being only lovers or mothers, we are limiting ourselves.
~Connie Nielsen

I always think that women are the chaos managers of life.
~Teresa Heinz

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I can barely recall a single holiday when my father didn’t make a scene or create some kind of chaos. We were always walking on eggshells.
~Dominique Moceanu

I have spoken honestly about being born into a home where there was discord and chaos. I saw my mom have a rough time with my dad being very controlling, which is why I push back whenever I feel like someone is trying to box me in. It makes me run for the hills.
~Christina Aguilera

When people grow up with a family characterized by chaos and uncertainty and fragility, you look for a substitution for that.
~Carrie Brownstein

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
~Emile M Cioran

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When you’re going through these difficult times of chaos and trauma, the most important thing is to keep those who are closest to you together.
~Michael Imperioli

It was always chaos with Mom, Dad, uncles, you know; we all lived in the same building. Dinner parties with 25 people every night.
~Alexander Skarsgard

I knew I wanted children in my life. The acting was always in relation to it. Life at home is chaos. They’re wonderful. They’re such interesting human beings. I just love it. I’m lucky.
~Annette Bening

I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
~Jane Smiley

All I get to hear in the mornings are loud screams of my babies. It’s such a chaos but a new joy of life.
~Kashmira Shah

When you’ve got a teenager and a pre-teen, especially a son and a daughter, and they’re going at each other at the table, all you really want is just five minutes of quiet, but sometimes I have a moment during the chaos when I think, ‘Yes, this is good.’
~Al Roker

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Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move.
~Misty Copeland

I was born to a very large family, one of 7 kids. I grew up with carnivals and chaos all around me, so I can write anywhere.
~Anthony McCarten

Tarry a moment to watch the chaos of a playground, crayola-colored shirts of running children, all trying out their wings.
~Dr Sunwolf

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My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organized chaos.
~David Wenham

Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot.
~Japanese computer error message

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
~Steve Martin

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
~James Thurber

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Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.
~Don Kardon

Everything I eat has been proved by some writer or other to be a deadly poison. Everything I don’t eat has been proved indispensable to life!
~Bernard Shaw

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
~Mason Cooley

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Comedy isn’t necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it’s a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.
~Clint Eastwood

You know, how much order is good? And when does order become too restrictive? Is a little bit of chaos okay, or is chaos always an evil force? I mean, these are questions that any kid who’s ever been in a school cafeteria can relate to.
~Rick Riordan

The chaos of my life has a lot to do with my hair.
~Bill Pullman

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It’s a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you; it’s a way to survive and get closer to the truth.
~Laura Linney

If vampires and werewolves were walking around today, there would be chaos. People would be losing their minds.
~Rutina Wesley

I keep my stand-up comedy notes in a pile on my desk. I don’t organize my act. I keep myself in a state of confusion. It stresses me out, but I prefer creative chaos.
~Joy Behar

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The Colors of War
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Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
~Henry Adams

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order that the observer is used to.
~Mamur Mustapha

Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
~George Santayana

Chaos is a condition of the mind, not of the world.
~Marty Rubin

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.
~Kerry Thornley

Chaos is merely order waiting to be deciphered.
~Jose Saramago

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
~Carl Jung

Every chaos has an order hidden in it. What we see as a chaos, is actually driven by a very disciplined and dedicated order of things. What we need to do is focus on the stuff before us, make our way through this chaos, and that order will sort itself out for us.
~Sapan Saxena

Chaos does not mean total disorder. Chaos means a multiplicity of possibilities. Chaos is from the ancient Greek words that means a thing that is birthed from the void. And it was about that which is possible, not about disorder.
~Jok Church

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My journey has always been the balance between chaos and order.
~Philippe Petit

Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
~Spalding Gray

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
~Henry Adams

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
~Sun-tzu

Growth comes from chaos, not order.
~Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
~M C Escher

I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
~Septima Clark

Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news!
~Chogyam Trungpa

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I’m not afraid of chaos and I’m happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I’m going.
~Fiona Shaw

I get huge solace from chaos, especially if someone else is doing it, too, like, ‘Thank God it’s not just me!’
~Jessie Buckley

What sort of freak then is man! How novel, how monstruous, how chaotic, how paradoxical, how prodigious! Judge of all things, feeble earth-worm, repository of truth, sink of doubt and error, glory and garbage of the universe…
~Pascal

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A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.
~Robert Greene

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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
~Richard M Nixon

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People think that it is negative, but in fact, chaos can be very fertile.
~Robert Lepage

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I love the English aesthetic; in a way, I feel it is close to my own, a beautiful chaos; it is a powerful mix of the past and the present.
~Alessandro Michele

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‘Entropy’ broadly means tending towards chaos constantly.
~Sid Sriram

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Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.
~James Stephens

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Chaos and disorder is like a pebble in my shoe or loose hair under my shirt collar.
~Warren Miller

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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
~Gary Vaynerchuk

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Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.
~Moby

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It’s all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
~Denise Mina

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Blame is just a lazy person’s way of making sense of chaos.
~Douglas Coupland

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I don’t give advice, because I always made my own mistakes and would only be adding further chaos to the situation.
~Gianluigi Buffon

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Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that’s part of the fun – the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn’t allow us to enjoy the adventure.
~Patrick Lencioni

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Chaos at the bottom means order at the top. Order at the bottom means chaos at the top.
~Stephen K Hayes

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I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.
~David Moranis

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I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain’t seen nothing yet.
~Nigel Farage

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@Writers Platform:

Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable.
~Michel Faber

The qualities that make parties such a nightmare for people — and also so pleasurable — make them incredibly important inside of fiction. There’s a chaos agent quality to them: You just don’t know who’s going to be there or why. You could run into an old enemy, an old friend, an old friend who’s become an enemy.
~Alexander Chee

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos.
~John Cheever

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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
~Isabel Allende

The course of a story is no more predictable than the life of a child.
Choice and chaos bow to needs of the moment.
~author unknown

The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don’t always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we’re experiencing.
~Daniel Levitin

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
~George Bernard Shaw

Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That’s how you focus the world. It’s the only reason you should ever try this writing job.
~Dennis Lehane

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When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.
~Stephen Spender

We will have a total chaos without books, literature, and library.
~Anne Waldman

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Prewritten Prompt:   chaos

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Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.
~Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Religion is a way to make order from chaos, and I think economics is not dissimilar. In religion and in economics, you’re trying to figure out the way we perceive the world and move through it, and that’s what I like to learn.
~Stephen J Dubner

Chaos magic is the idea that a particular set of beliefs serves as an active force in the world. In other words, we choose what and how we believe, and our beliefs are tools that we then use to make things happen or not.
~Sophia Amoruso

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The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.
~Georg Buchner

Chaos is God’s body. Order is the Devil’s chains.
~John Updike

God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.
~Ralph Fiennes

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.
~Robert Moses

The splendid discontent of God
With chaos made the world.
And from the discontent of man
The worlds best progress springs.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
~John Dos Passos

A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable.
~Robert Bork

There’s something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.
~Andrew Pyper

I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that’s the basis of Greek mythology.
~Brendan Fraser

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When some personal crisis or the bewildering chaos of everyday life closes in on us, we often rush to worship the rationally-planned cathedral and ignore the religion.
~Bob Samples (paraphrasing Albert Einstein)

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.
~Randall Terry

Organized religion preaches Order and Love but spawns Chaos and Fury. Why?
~Kerry Thornley

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The North East is a tough, working-class area. Its people boast great humour. But for two days every year, when Newcastle and Sunderland play football, it’s absolute chaos. And very nasty. It borders on tribal hatred.
~Steve Bruce

With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.
~John Robinson

After the first ball is bowled, it’s only chaos. What you are trying to do is you’re trying to manage the chaos. It’s not like a script that happens.
~M S Dhoni

For me, nothing bad can happen on a football pitch. You could be growing up in chaos, everything could be going crazy around you, but if you have a ball at your feet, you stop thinking. Everything is quiet, peaceful.
~Marcelo

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I’m very moved by chaos theory, and that sense of energy. That quantum physics. We don’t really, in Hindu tradition, have a father figure of a God. It’s about cosmic energy, a little spark of which is inside every individual as the soul.
~Bharati Mukherjee

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§ THE EXERCISE:

interpretive

fancied turbulence
beauty camouflaged as chaos
these are no cotton ball bouffants
clouds atop a serrated skyline
but a slow tumbling confusion
fancy dancing to their song
we call the wind

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schooled

dump truck run amok
formerly the Garden
lessons for learning the hard way
chaos, paid coinage for wisdom

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unsated

nude reviews, X-rated
tortured deaths, R-rated
share-the-wealth, berated

just-in-time, outdated
speed of greed, unabated
progress ends, constipated

success of science, underrated
success in business, celebrated
success of conscience, overstated

arena sports, pro-rated
social worlds, conglomerated
planet Earth, health degraded

options open, unfilled
growth stifled, unskilled
answers form, born killed

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forecast news

waterspouts and tornadoes
on the attack, land and sea
whether lover or country
fellow creatures task’d with soul
islands mid-ocean chaos
wild weather anomalies
parallel analogies

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Geneology

Magic, perchance illusion,
a child of the mind
Miracle, born bloodied
out of nothing
You were magic
Love was the miracle

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5s n 7s

endgame politics
toys of war a ploy for more
chaos’ crude clone, Clown
slaughter in place of laughter
jester in lieu of justice

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turnpike to chaos
same high-way to hell and back
some heaven thrown in

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complex chemistries
jealousy and whiskey blend
camouflaged chaos

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religions abound
party platforms multiply
brains bathed in chaos

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call it love or need
barricade against chaos
some one to call home

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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes

There is no way to order chaos. It’s the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it’s the ultimate law of nature. There’s no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.
~Alexandra Fuller

I finally figured out that not every crisis can be managed… As much as we want to keep ourselves safe, we can’t protect ourselves from everything. If we want to embrace life, we also have to embrace chaos.
~Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
~Francis Ford Coppola

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
~Buddha

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I exist in agreement with all the weird chaos, destruction, and agony that is undoubtedly part of the texture of being alive.
~Arca

Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
~H P Lovecraft

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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I’m capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn’t matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
~Ian Frazier

Irony is a clear consciousness of an eternal agility, of the infinitely abundant chaos.
~Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it’s also very addictive.
~Lorna Luft

Life is nothing without a little chaos to make it interesting.
~Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

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If the chaos is overwhelming, I start making lists. To write it down puts it in perspective.
~Renee Lawless

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.
~Annie Dillard

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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
~Melody

Manners make the world work. They’re not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it’s chaos.
~Letitia Baldrige

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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
~Flea

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