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I am Adrian Tripod,
the Director of this place,
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the House of Skin.
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In a sense, my present
incarnation was generated
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by the mad dermatologist
Antoine Rouge.
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The House of Skin
began its existence
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as a residential clinic
for wealthy patients
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who were treated for
severely pathological skin conditions
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induced by
contemporary cosmetics.
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Antoine Rouge,
who at the time,
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was considered little more
then a gifted technician
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seized control of the house
many years ago
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and guided it towards
a more fantastic species of research.
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There was much opposition
to the Rougian ascendancy
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in certain high places.
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The House is undeniably in decline.
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Somehow, without
my direct comprehension of it,
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it has fallen into the hands
of my two sullen interns.
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Their purposes
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are entirely opaque to me.
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As are the purposes
of so many others.
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Before the disappearance
of Antoine Rouge,
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there were many strange creatures
in residence here.
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But for some time now,
there has only been one.
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And he...
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...I believe, I have noted
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a whitish, aerated
amorphous affluence
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oozing from his ears.
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I am not quite certain.
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My interns have also noted
the deadly emergence
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of this secretion
which we call Rouge's foam.
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It has been mandatory
to cremate all those
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who have died from Rouge's Malady.
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Although during the period
of secretion and haemorrhage,
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the various pathological fluids
are relatively harmless,
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even essentially attractive.
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These fluids soon develop
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a virulence
which can be devastating.
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There was a time
when Rouge's Malady appeared
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only in post-pubertal
human females.
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It is perhaps natural
that in my present confusion
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I should find my way to
the Institute of Neo-Venereal Disease.
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In the exhilarating days
of Rougian administration,
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there was much collaboration
between the House and this institute.
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My former colleague
has somehow withdrawn.
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He himself has contracted
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a species of venereal disease
from one of his patients.
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He was once a fierce sensualist
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but he has now become
a pure metaphysician.
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His body has begun
to create puzzling organs.
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Each one very complex, very perfect,
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unique yet seemingly
without function.
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As each is surgically removed,
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it is quickly replaced by another
equally mysterious.
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He has taken to breaking
into the specimens room
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and stealing the jars
containing these organs.
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His body, he insists, is a galaxy.
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And these creatures
are solar systems.
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He becomes melancholy
when they are far from him.
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His nurse says that his disease
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is possibly
a form of creative cancer.
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I believe that this is
what they have said.
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It is difficult
to recall so many dialects
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when one has remained
so long in isolation.
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I have found a position
as a therapist
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with the Oceanic Podiatry Group.
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They support
their theoretical structure,
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in part, by a grossly
distorted interpretation
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of the later evolutionary writings
of Antoine Rouge.
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Still the closeness of certain
Rougian concepts is comforting.
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The technique I am to attempt
is the invocation
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of the genetic history of feet.
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That is, tentacles, lobed fins,
flippers and so on.
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By these
and other more esoteric means,
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I am to reverse
the psychic relapse, now so common,
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which can occur
under intense genetic pressure.
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I am, thereby,
to encourage patients
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to bear the burden
of a suddenly alien gravity.
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To walk, for example,
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when they would prefer to revert
to more primitive oceanic forms.
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I have achieved
a sort of equilibrium
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in my anonymity here
at Metaphysical Import-Export.
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It has been simple
to remain aloof
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from the internal workings
of this corporation
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because as a minor
intramural courier
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I am not required
to communicate
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with many candidates
for executive positions with whom I deal.
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As a consequence, however,
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I am uncertain
as to what constitutes
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the significance of their incessant
exercises and competitions.
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When Antoine Rouge disappeared
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soon after he had himself
contracted the disease
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which bears his name,
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we believed that
he had preferred to die alone
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in an exile only partially self-willed.
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Still, he on one occasion
remarked that Rouge's Malady
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could not possibly be fatal to Rouge
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though it had already killed
hundreds of thousands of women.
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And it is true that his death
was confirmed only
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by certain authorities
who had long wished for his death.
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Yet, the Rouge,
as my mentor, and I
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were preternaturally close.
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And I feel sure
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that he no longer exists.
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I have been studying
the stereoscopic card
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delivered to me
by the man with webbed toes.
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Though his manner was brutal,
the card he left me
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was both inviting
and peculiarly flattering.
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Yet it was perhaps
because of the perverse sexual nature
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of the card's images,
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so reminiscent of those
which had gained an odd popularity
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at the House of Skin
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which decided me against contacting
these subtle colleagues
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as they describe themselves.
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I fear, however,
that if I remain here much longer
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my hard won equilibrium
may become a morbid stasis.
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My former difficult patient
now welcomes me with open arms.
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He no longer limps
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and claims that as a result of
my abortive attempt at oceanic therapy
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he feels he has come to terms
with his mutant toes.
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He adds something
elaborately philosophical
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about sea creatures,
air and water,
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but his idioms
are extremely obscure.
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As I had anticipated,
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I have been invited to join
a gathering of conspirators.
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Their purposes are,
as yet, opaque to me.
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As are the purposes
of so many others.
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It is, however, quite clear
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that they are
heterosexual paedophiles.
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A group specifically outlawed
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though increasingly pervasive,
nonetheless.
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We are now all disciples
of a new master it seems.
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He is called Jomkin.
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He describes these provocative
spheres as his aquaria
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and directs me to engage psychically
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any aquarium
for which I feel empathy.
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I cannot deny my attraction
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to certain of these perverse
multi-dimensional images.
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Jomkin suggests
that there must evolve
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a novel sexuality
for a new species of man.
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An emergent genetic biochemistry
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for a most innovatively
reproductive form of life.
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He mentions Antoine Rouge.
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But... I cannot
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seem to see the connection
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between
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Adrian Tripod has been accepted
by the Board of Directors
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of the Gynaecological
Research Foundation.
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The Liaison Officer complains
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that his feet and legs
are most unpredictable.
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He is afraid that they will give out on
him entirely some day without warning.
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And so when he is alone,
he does not walk.
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He notes the vastness
of the Foundation's quarters
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and the difficulty in reaching aid
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for those
suddenly rendered helpless.
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In this connection, he mentions
the Foundation's hired gunman
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who apparently has a tendency
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to misinterpret
subtle social confrontations.
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Adrian Tripod is
to be directly introduced
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to the subject of his study.
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She is a research import
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brought at great expense
from a great distance
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across several
most contentious borders.
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The Corporation
Metaphysical Import-Export
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has been involved in the venture.
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He stresses the complex nature
of prematurely induced puberty
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which leaves such a subject
vulnerable to Rouge's Malady
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and is unable to guarantee
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that she is not already
somewhat defective in this respect.
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At an obscure hotel for transients,
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the same one some had said,
that the faded mad dermatologist
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Antoine Rouge occupied
during those last years in exile,
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Adrian Tripod secures
temporary accommodations
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for himself
and his fellow subversives.
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The concierge speaks at length
about a root-like excrescence
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which has begun to grow
from one of his nostrils.
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He believes it to be an extension
of certain cerebral nerve cells.
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A modified antennae, perhaps,
a delicate sensing organ.
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Attuned to what?
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I ask him about Antoine Rouge
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but he does not answer.
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Although for safety's sake,
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we shall be without
Jomkin's guidance for some time,
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we have agreed among ourselves
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that there must be no delay
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in attempting to impregnate
our strange, unfathomable captive.
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Adrian Tripod senses
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the presence of Antoine Rouge.
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