The imagination in the contemporary world and the legacy of the Romantic literary thought

Defining and using his imagination:

A Legacy of Romanticism in the modern world

Judyth Vary Baker

Imagination – Traditionally, mental capacity to experience, building or manipulating 'mental imagery (quasi-perceptual experience). Imagination is also seen as responsible for fantasy, inventiveness, idiosyncrasy, and creative, original thinking and insightful, in general, and, sometimes, for a wider range of mental activities involving non-real, as assumed, pretending, 'seeing as', thinking of possibilities, and even make mistakes. See representation.

Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind

The definition of the imagination, as seen above, appears to represent design elements, as well as existing as a term. The word is commonly encountered in the literature, descriptions or studies of romanticism, or the Romantic literary movement, which developed and flourished in the early and mid-nineteenth century. The student who is the product of more recent millennia, however, may have a different understanding of "imagination" than that envisioned by the romantics, like the word "romantic" itself can not adequately prepare students naive today the nature of the content of poetry and literature of the nineteenth century they could discover, in the hope of appropriating Shakespeare Drydenesque expressions at the entrance of their lovers.

It is important that the imagination "and" romantic "understood as it was by the Romantics. For this reason, I added the word "satire" (which I have not seen much use in the literature as part of "imagination" and "romanticism). order to guide and connect the modern student thoughts on what has been a driving force behind the literary productions of the Romantics.

Although it seems reasonable to suppose that the romantic definition of "imagination" seems to have evolved as a result of thinking long based on ideas and ideals and modern-nineteenth century and the influence of big lights before had thought and work formulate their own definition, it seems that the ideals of the eighteenth century that were expressed at the time were based on same philosophical definitions for "imagination" which – later-were regarded by our young romantics as fodder to foment rebellion literary even if

"(If) The common argument optimistic eighteenth century was … The thesis is the best of possible worlds ;….() which gave rise to the belief that the proponents of this doctrine were ….() insensitive to the pain and all the frustrations and conflicts that arise across the whole range of sentient life … far from asserting the unreality of all evil, philosophical optimist eighteenth century was served mainly to demonstrate their necessity (Lovejoy 319). "

Lovejoy adds that "the logical requirements of the argument optimistic concerned … ideas with important consequences for both pregnant ethics and aesthetics, as they should be among the elements The most distinctive of what may be more worthy to be called "Romanticism" (319). "

The definition of the imagination in fact, as has been slowly developed, studied, and, finally, used by many romantics, probably needs to be studied with contextual consideration of satire, and the ideals behind the writings of the romantic rebellion, to see how the ideas of the eighteenth century imagination have been refined and redefined, perhaps to help support these philosophical arguments that have created to justify and legitimize their rebellion, which was roughly league against the eighteenth-century sentimentalism and superficiality. The overall result of this rebellion was a "romantic idealism that has fascinated, not only their generation but those to come. I think we have inherited our present notions of the romantic imagination, which continue to have an impact on the definition of the imagination with which the layman and the psychologist faces today.

I was reading a bit of Coleridge and Hazlitt, and was struck by some of the love letters Hazlitt, who embody for me the "romantic" in "romantic", while warning me of elements of both fantasy and satire which he used so in Liber Amoris. Marilyn Butler, who analyzes how the Romantics often presented just masked, biting and satirical autobiographical self-image in his essay "Satire and the Images of self in the Romantic period: the long tradition of Hazlitt's Liber Amoris," commented that

".. A self-age image may not be as distinct as for the posterity of it. Romantics supposedly did not know when they were supposed to do without the satire … It is easy to exaggerate tribute well known to break with the recent past, literary, or Part of it we now designate the Augustins. Byron the pope may have been controversial, Scott announced better tribute to Dryden was less … (210). "

In the case of Coleridge's famous list of revisions and changes the flow in the evolution of Romantic ideas, ideals, imagination. Says Stillinger, which gives us a book of Coleridge's revisions:

"If Coleridge had written to each poem once and only once, there would be no problem. As it is, we think he did, and therefore arise from simplifications and errors in our approach to his poetry. Mainly it is the idea that, for each poem, but there is one final text, the idea that the only text Final of each poem must necessarily be an end (in practice, because there is nothing else in sight, theoretically, for Such was the tendency to generalize about the textual authority for most of this century), then the conclusion of these products that Coleridge's texts early deficit of his poetic career. (9-10). "

I chose these two quotes to illustrate two trends that we, as human beings that are read: one to identify a movement in literature and defined by its proponents and its members during its existence, especially in the hey-day or the height of the manifestation of its existence, those who follow (and still have that remarkable decline), and secondly we tend to believe that the products of such a movement have been created, mostly as carved in stone. But, as Stillinger clearly states, "In the theoretical framework of my study (Coleridge) has produced a new and final version, the" final "text that intended to stand at the moment, whenever he has a revised text (10). "

And Why did Coleridge revise his work?

Many poets do I review my own work, because I am changing, and what I wrote does not weigh or feel or said everything I wanted, or I do not want to say what I want to say once, or, perhaps, I gained a greater awareness or ability to communicate what could not be said prior to the request (sometimes revisions weaken original work, yes!).

Maybe all our Romantics, Coleridge has left us the most sophisticated analysis of what he did in writing, publishing, criticism and composition of poetry.

And, fortunately for us, he plunges into a lengthy discussion – one might almost call it a tirade in energy and vehemence exhaustive – about the imagination. Coleridge does not hesitate to take us on a journey of philosophical and theological great complexity in its attempt to fully explore the theme of imagination.

From a letter dated June 23, 1834:

"You can imagine the difference in nature between fantasy and imagination This way, if the check from sense and reason have been removed, the first become final delirium and mania. Fantasy gathers images unrelated physical or moral, but are coupled together by the poet through a few Any accidental ….( random) (t), it modifies the imagination of the images, and gives unity to the variety, he sees all things in one, "Nell LITTLE uno it. There's the epic imagination, the perfection of what is in Milton, and drama, Shakespeare, who is the absolute master (http:Imagination Coleridge 3). "

Coleridge's theory may be clear for some, in my opinion, it is abstruse and complicated in his thinking, and a variety interpretations of what he meant about the imagination exists. What seems clear is that for Coleridge There are two kinds of imagination, a primary and a secondary type. Yet this distinction between "pure imagination" and "secondary imagination" is apparently not clear enough to allow all other critics agree with the analysis presented by Robert Penn Warren, according to notes of the source cited directly above, as appears in Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where Penn Warren argues that "the Ancient Mariner is a poem of the imagination pure "in the sense that its object is the poetic, or secondary, the imagination itself.

Whalley (1946-7) said that "whether consciously or unconsciously, "the albatross was" the symbol of Coleridge's creative imagination. "House (1953) contrasts with the rigidity analysis symbolic Penn Warren and argues that the poem is "part of the exploration … part of the experience that led Coleridge in his statements Subsequent theoretical (from the theory of the imagination) rather than a symbolic sketch of theoretical states themselves "(84, 113).

It might be useful, then, take a look at the definitions of roots imagination, as these philosophers distant but large, Plato and Aristotle, the thought of it. After all, the Romantics seemed to have considered the definitions, too. Basically, the Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind provides a distillation of the definition of imagination as proposed by the philosopher of philosophers,

"Aristotle … (Who) told us that the imagination [phantasia] "is (apart from any metaphorical sense) the process by which we say a [phantasma] before us "(De Anima. 428A 1-4). It has been questioned recently whether the Greek words and phantasia fantasy are really equivalent to "imagination" and "(mental) image" as heard in contemporary usage. However, it can be little doubt that, until very recently, the theoretical discussion of phantasia, his imaginatio Latin translation, and their descendants etymological continued to be anchored in the concepts introduced by Aristotle and the problems arising from its explanation rather elliptical of them "(http:1).

And for many, it could be argued, people do not really lost far This first standard definition known for his imagination:

Very probably this is true of all Western philosophical schools: Stoics Epicureans and Neoplatonists, as much as admitted Aristotelean; Muslims as well as Christians, and get there, as well as the empiricists rationalists (Http:1).

While "the link between imagination and perception is the most fundamental, it should also be noted that is "postulated" that there is a difference between common sense [sensus communis] and phantasia, either of which can generate phantasmata,

"But when their immediate cause is an object directly before us, the tendency is to refer to them as percepts, and the process of perception, when the memory of things previously observed is the source, reference will be more likely to memory and imagination. Thus the imagination has come to be actively involved in thinking about things that are not actually currently present in meaning: things are not really there "(2).

Although this is a simplified view, it does correspond roughly to the situation as I have studied, and it only took a few lines of reading time to tell you.

Today, the ideas behind the fantasy, the words "and" creativity "are likely to raise these kinds of thoughts:

"… We sometimes find modern authors make a distinction between "memory imaging and imaging of imagination, or even restrict the use of" imagination "(And, a fortiori," imaginary ") to thoughts about things that never (or never again) was actually known ….( F) or any reason, the words … as "fantastic", "Fantasy" or "fantasy" seems unreal … connote more strongly that "Imagination" and its derivatives … (2).

And then we Descartes, which connects all scientific flesh, brain matter, connected to the rational mind, it seems, to the body through the Cartesian imagination "sensus communis /" on the surface of the pineal gland, "the keystone that holds together the two worlds of metaphysical Cartesianism. As it did for Aristotle, imagination sensus communis / mediation between the bodily senses, intangible and now) the rational mind ("(3).

Where the Romantics arrived, the ideas of Philostratus (among others) have received a new life as

"Discussion on the imagination shifted far from the cognitive theory and epistemology, and to his role in the original, creative thinking, especially in the arts (3). In other words, the imagination has been given the value, with passion, and even Coleridge [despite all his attempts to formalize its definitions Long lines philosophical] "relied heavily on Kant and post-Kantian German idealism (and Plotinus with ….)…() results ( From a philosophical point of view) fragmented and largely incoherent "(4).

This brings us to the twentieth century, and Sartre (who seems to have respected the idea of the imagination), is against all sorts of "analytic philosophers (that )…. seem to doubt the imagination is even. Gilbert Ryle said, in The Concept of Mind, that "There is no special faculty of the imagination, dealing with determination in the thought viewings and hearings "91 949), which quickly became the widely accepted view (4).

Concept fundamental imaging and internal functioning imagination as a real process of the mind has received some support from "psychologists such as cognitive …. Paivio … Shepard, Kosslyn and ….», as it became once more "respectable as a subject for experimental psychological investigation" (4). But this does not mean that the imagination has found status as nothing more than a "burden representationally auxiliary to other, more fundamental forms of mental representation, and current theories of image formation hardly claim to be central to cognitive theory formerly occupied by the imagination "(5).

This is actually quite a fall from a position almost preeminent consideration in the development Cognitive / creative process as provided by Coleridge and others in the Romantic movement, although the difficulties that Hume brought to its definition mixed opinions: "According to Hume is" an established maxim in metaphysics, as we imagine … anything is absolutely impossible (Treatise, I, II, 2) "(5). Without wading through examples that can prove that we can imagine the impossible, and that the inverse of the observation Hume may lead to non sequiturs barrel, there is physiological evidence available now that the visual imagery and imagination are neurologically generated and may in the future, without a doubt be controlled:

"Neurological patients who have lost parts retinotopically mapped in one hemisphere, leaving them blind in the corresponding half of their visual field demonstrate some impaired imaginary capacities in the blind hemifield … However, other patients with cortical blindness due to damage in these regions seem images have relatively normal. In addition, some patients with localized damage in areas mapped retinotopically living experience, well trained "Visual hallucinations" (ie imagery that is outside of conscious control – they generally do not confuse it with reality) precisely in the affected parts (blind or "blindsighted") of their visual field. This suggests that these brain regions can not be essential for visual imagery "(Theories http:Are imagery ….. 6).

The above quotation can give readers an overview of rigid and mechanistic way in which ideas and definitions of "imagination" and "images" are being approached by investigators leading imaging and phenomena of imagination in the late twentieth cenury (the quote above refers to some results of recent surveys of Kosslyn et al (1992-1997). There is not much room for any living, breathing body of a definition evolutionary imagination here. It has already been decided that everything that emanates from this piece of tissue and fluid complex known as "brain" is limited by its physiological characteristics, parameters and functions.

It is a bit like analyzes Kubla Khan as a pure product of the influence of opium – as if there will ever be another Kubla Khan!

If worrying about the definition of "imagination / imagination could well be a waste of time for the poet, writer, artist. I am sometimes asked if James Joyce in Ulysses effusions prompted a response not only by his knowledge of both languages — as if they hit a freight train crashing against his skull — but also as the result of mercury treatment, it is theorized to have taken to try to cure syphilis, which cost him the eyes and mental health of his daughter (no, you will not find more than a few papers on this subject-is the research I've done myself, from medical evidence that I discovered in the 1970s about Joyce, his wife and children, as far as I know).

Indeed, if "romanticism" Indeed appropriate "Imagination" as a definition of life – but it's certainly a simplified perspective – a definition which is based on a thorough understanding the past, and had been stressed and challenged by the skepticism of many of those infant monkeys whose appeal to science alone would make flowers, imagination, and similar subjects to be analyzed as only — it was perhaps the last attempt to settle the creative minds of man to secure a place of respect for what the mind can produce, for which the world might not have a place, neither understand nor be ready.

It is the liveliness of imagination that the Romantics sought to define – aware of its past meanings – how Milton and Blake and philosophers of antiquity has given the imagination a place of respect for the man's dynamic arrangements with arguments thought more dynamic past and present on what the imagination was really (and he could no longer today, for similar reasons, rest), which tends to seduce me. It behooves us to see if we agree the imagination that we believe it is now like any romantic notion about it, or not.

To be able to give a name to this factor that affects your creative thinking as the concept of "imagination" is not to kill or inactivate: imagination is with the human race, recognized or not, as people dare to think for themselves. I like what Wordsworth calls "the imaginative desire" because of the emancipation this term gives the will which is decorated in the midst of its potential reasonable, targeted by intelligence. Margaret Sherwood said Wordsworth, "research the unique formula intellectual would solve the complex problem of existence … (Was) reduced …. dogmatic fatalism depression was despair and night:

"The crisis of the disease strong, soul and was last below …. a questioning of reality the existence of the human will, the power of choice, and the adequacy of reason to justify the choice …. history of recovery Wordsworth, as recorded in the lead, is one of the great chapters of biography of the man. In response, the temporary submission (doctrine) … that man (is) the victim leads to external forces … The young poet (now) … … Mindful of the creative power within … (And) (H) is the belief in "the will of imagination as a creative power, able to invigorate the human soul to the pure source of being, ever after he expressed in his poetry and … life "(182-183).

The power of his understanding of the relationship between the creative force that Wordsworth estimated flows through it – the imagination and willingness to turn this creative force in creation of choice – by the effort of his own will, has a value of motivation for the writer and poet who transcends any technical scientific definitions of "imagery" and "imagination" that were produced from the exploration and crossing of traumatized monkey (or human) brain.

Imagination been recognized in various ancient cultures as having its own particular dimensions, which henceforth will be refined through Wordsworth, which redefines imagination as a choice that can processed by the will.

Today's students, largely exposed to the method science and scientific jargon, have not been carrying out an important definition in the matter of creativity: it is almost a terrible thing to say "creative". Admit to having a great imagination is to invite speculation as to his sanity ultimate ago correlations between creativity and manic-depression, creativity and madness. Unfortunately, the fact that a person in danger of madness or who is mentally unstable, may use a creative ploy to survive or to improve its understanding by the will, the reality through the act of creation, does not seem to be understood in this light, and I suggest that it is an unfortunate oversight.

As for the rest of us, the use of the imagination as a tool to explore realistic results after a certain choice provides a basis for understanding the benefits of such a utilitarian function. The viability of the imagination as a source to achieve a logical sequence in our life, after exploring, through imagination, the probable and improbable consequences of certain choices, is generally ignored. And of course, that same range of choice, developed as a result of seeing the results and the same scenarios, allows the artist, writer, poet, the logician and the scientist to make creative choices in their respective fields.

Imagination, even today, can be understood, then, according to the interpretation of Wordsworth as a device or resource, a potential, one might say – to obtain or benefit from any strategy with which to cope with events or ideas potentially intolerable, or to produce new, over, or irrelevant, his entourage, the middle, and the environment, provided that to exercise the imagination is to use a key to successful adaptation, or the expression of the human being.

The definition of Wordsworth's imagination allows. It is a gateway to new and unimaginable events, possible worlds unable to be entered without permission from some higher authority, whether God or a dictator. I suggests that the approach of the romantic imagination allows the mind a certain freedom to explore radical modern definitions could possibly denying us (if we do not want to be regarded as somewhat too creative, and, therefore, may be mentally unstable, etc.).

In all these considerations, the element of satire should not be ignored. Imagination alone, in one embodiment as a movement romantic writers / poets worthy of adoption in our own philosophy, does not exclude taking into account the role of satire in its implementation. Satire can hide or disguise the creative product, which allows it to be a sugar coating for what might otherwise be a tough pill to contemporary world – full on scientific thought – to swallow. While we could have a better understanding of what "imagination" could aim of romantic, rather than what it means for us today, thinking about them, we must consider the role of satire has been somewhat neglected, I think, as an influence in the works of the Romantics.

I believe that their creations and satirical asides as a response rational social pressures that keep so many writers and artists pathetically poor. Just as farmers are at the bottom of the ladder providing food for everyone, and yet receive less than anyone else what they sell (such as food is transformed and becomes more expensive consumer unit, which the farmer has to buy, hold her poorest), then, too, artists, poets and writers to produce thoughts and ideas that others may adapt and enjoy, while the benefits of their work, employing imagination, rarely return to them in the form of monetary rewards or respect.

Fantasy fiction is a dynamic concept that has helped boost production intrepid works have appeared as responses to earlier works yet: the entire chain was almost a living structure, dynamic and active, consisting of a set of social interaction, creative people, which usually works with their force until they die. Like the Romantics are dead, their prospects of creation, their definition of the imagination, died with them. Their concept of the imagination still struggling for words here and there: I see the impressionist painting, listening to the drafting of consciousness and other wonderful bodies inheritance yet to establish itself in the romantic works of believers last great imagination.

It is important to understand that the explosions Creativity is generally associated with new things or new ways of seeing things. It is imagination at once stimulating and is stimulated in this way, and it is the definition of the imagination that is central to almost desperate search for understanding the relevance Coleridge creativity in the universe locked gate described by the scientific method. The attempt to define Imagination Coleridge peaked in Chapter Thirteen of Biographica Literaria, a statement so famous, I will not repeat it here, but said Thomas McFarland

"No Only there is no preparation for the triple distinction of Chapter Thirteen previous writings of Coleridge, it is not even in the Biographica In Chapter Thirteen … … in a surprising about-face, he writes himself a letter … (It) the product simply throw on (The reader) the triple distinction …"( 210).

Indeed, the spontaneous affirmation of property by three for the imagination can be its real roots in the opinion of Blake, according to McFarland: "To cast off Bacon, Locke and Newton from Albion covering to remove his clothes dirty, and clothe him with Imagination … (215)

Yet Coleridge wanted to reconcile mysticism and imagination, always if possible, with "the dictates of common sense to the conclusions of scientific reasoning." To Coleridge

"… Sharing the respect of his age for science and theories scientific confidence that human experience could be explained by the physical nature could be explained, there were laws of nature rights and the laws of motion …. What he must have been a way to reconcile the experience of EI [oasis] visionary insight with acceptable conceptions of physical reality and psychological "(216).

This is not an ignoble risk.

Coleridge was aware that there is an element of passivity in the idea that imagination is merely a by-product of a physical brain knows some permutations that can not currently (but may still ultimately) be controlled. McFarland shows how Coleridge attempted to attack some of the difficulties that arise based solely on scientific concepts of the imagination. When Coleridge does not include only those of Kant, but the objections of the Tetens philosopher, he began to breathe more easily. An extract of thought Tetens' reveal what Coleridge was to learn:

"Dichkraft can create any element, any fundamental material, can do nothing about anything, and this measure is no creative power. He can not separate, dissolve, gather, mix, but that is precisely what it can produce new images, This point of view of our faculty of differentiation are discrete representations.

There is therefore a Selbstthatigheit – an activity spontaneous – in receptivity "of the psyche" … perception, reproduction and power co-adunating "(222).

Coleridge, McFarland noted as especially in chapter eight of his Biographica Literaria, adopted such ideas expressed by Tetens (yet Additionally, McFarlane says, rather convincingly that Kant's), which gave him the intellectual terrain, he asked the prospects of Newton that had so depressed:

"Newton was materialistic simple – Mind in the system is always passive – a lazy Looker, a world outside. If the mind not be passive if it should indeed be the image of God, and that too in the sense sublime image of the Creator, it is grounds for suspicion, that any system based on the passivity of the mind must be false, as a "system (222).

While I can not kiss Coleridge precise interpretations religious, or, indeed, double or triple vision of imagination with which we could occupy the wood of a tree all made of paper, McFarlane made Another interesting point to note that the "offspring of the imagination of the secondary does not only extend back beyond Kant adolescents, but also beyond Teens Leibniz, and finally beyond Leibniz to Plato. "

That makes all the difference: Coleridge contemplates This continuous stream of thought (as I think we too could benefit from doing so), and therefore

"With the history of this kind ,…. Coleridge's theory of imagination triple door is less about poetry than it is about things that have always mattered more to him as they made to Leibniz and Kant, that "freedom of the will, the immortality of the soul and the existence of God" (224-226).

With the advent of the computer, we have entered a new frontier: we do not know how to explore all – its functions and potential has not been defined for us in advance. Similarly, the computer provides the human mind using the imagination endless variations. Once again, wonderful, creative things can happen, because we are not hampered by a totally mechanistic interpretation of everything we do. This is a new frontier of creation, waiting to be expanded and developed.

It will be tamed faster than any border behind her, as we accelerate this process through science that we support even – - the rules most now the domain of our minds with his interpretation of what is sane, what is not, what is real, what is not, and – without probably soon to come – we dare unions of what we might be allowed to create, and what we dare not. As shown in police states, satire, wit and humor can unlock thought prisons. Satire, in particular, provides the creative imagination of its last foot waiting the mountain, including the reason is the king. In this king-of-the-mountain scenario, satire can not win, can not extort any lasting laurels for the imagination. But it can challenge the King of a dissenting voice.

. Says critic Marilyn Butler: "With the passage of time, the critics seem to have become less rather than more conscious strain satirical and intellectual writing romantic … (191). It is because the satire of the tree strike deeper into the contemporary objectives, some now so remote from our imagination (dare I use the word?) that we no longer see the original target, even if the meaning arrows.

That the wealth of creative potential (this is an expression such as "imagination" might have on the mind those sophisticated and idealists who saw themselves as pioneers and examples rebels embracing Romanticism) as a holistic philosophy and ubiquitous with a utilitarian function – in a world where the man was suddenly aware that he could be in charge of his universe, he can stand standing alone and solely responsible for world events in which he lived, not knowing whether or not his actions were ordained by God (s) or imposed on him by chance and instinct – this freedom can be denied us in our modern times. But this is not a satire. Satire breaks through, strong and sincere.

Morality and a new meaning when a human being can imagine that right and wrong choices that could be done without the intervention of a higher morale – they will not be discussed in a future where everything will be explained by the DNA and the environment. Nature was once Teacher Rights, and the forces of its own nature of its dictator, with the opening through the world before him, ready to explore and conquer. What was thought could become real. What seems to be real not to be motivated by the senses. Today thanks to the imagination – no simple formulas for success – in a world where scientists say we should or should not think, is the mark a rebel intellectual.

Our challenge today is to preserve "Imagination" by any definition.

In this spirit, look again, please, to the definition of which was absorbed very quickly by you, the reader, at the beginning of this article:

Imagination – Traditionally, the mental capacity to live, the building or manipulating 'mental imagery (Quasi-perceptual experience). Imagination is also regarded as responsible for fantasy, inventiveness, idiosyncrasy, and creative, original thinking and insightful, in general, and, sometimes, for a much wider range of mental activities dealing with non-real as assumed, claiming, "seeing as" the thinking of possibilities, and even make mistakes. See representation.

Dictionary Philosophy of mind

Note the last part of this definition: "the mental capacity for 'same mistake. " To have the freedom to err, be mistaken, possess the ability to reflect on "the thing that is not," Houyhnhnms logical that those of all Jonathan Swift's satirical imagination could imagine – the right to make mistakes based center of "imagination" – is a right and option that we have to keep our precious heritage and legacy untold creative Precious the romantic tradition.

Thank you Dr. Joseph Riehl (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), who suggested that I extend this test.

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THE State UP, 1957. (This is not me!)

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About the Author

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