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{{quote|''Mastropiero, as it was the habit, named his madrigal after the first verse of the poem, calling it'' [[Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe|Ye Beautiful and Graceful Maiden Went To Do Her Laundry]] ''but the lengthiness of this title seemed inadequate, so he renamed his madrigal as'' Ye Beautiful and Graceful Maiden Went To Do Her Laundry, She Clean'd In Ye Creek, And Wash'd As She Sang, Rubb'd Against A Rock, Hang'd It From A Birch ''and [[Les Luthiers]] has the pleasure to play tonight Johann Sebastian Mastropiero's Ye Beautiful and Graceful Maiden...'' mumble ''...Hang'd It From A Birch''
|'''[[Les Luthiers]]''' in ''La Bella y Graciosa Moza'' Routine}}
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* [[Long Title/Music|Music: Or, Sonorous melodies crafted by the manipulation of specially produced instruments, often accompanied by lyrics, which in the past were delivered exclusively by means of on-site performance, but which were later recorded and delivered to the mainstream public as a groove in a wax-coated cylinder, a technology which was gradually replaced over time by a groove in a disc made of finest resin of Shellac, then of vinyl acetate, then by magnetic fields imprinted on a metallic oxide-coated polymer tape winded and contained in a cassette, then by digitally-encoded signals engraved on plastic-metallic laser discs, and most recently, by a filtered, quantized, compressed digital signal encoded as a stream of binary data per specifications of the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 Layer-3 standard, and transmitted through the worldwide packet-switched interconnected networks known collectively as the Internet]]
 
== [[Anime/]] and [[Manga]]: Or, Televisual performances or illustrated stories produced akin to the preceding method, produced in the Empire of Japan, with considerably differing scope, visual style and manner of subject despite sharing a common means of conveyance ==
* On a general level, this trope is partially why [[Digital Piracy Is Evil|certain]] [[Fan Sub|formats]] of anime releases typically don't include episode titles in file names. After all, long show title + long episode title + a few subfolders = file paths exceeding 255-character length limits on some operating systems.
* ''[[Genshiken]]'' has a [[Running Gag]] of naming its chapters with a very verbose and academic-sounding title. The chapter where the group goes shopping on Akihabara, for example, is called "Comparative Classification of the Modern Youth Through Consumption and Entertainment".
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* ''Moshi Kōkō Yakyū no Joshi Manager ga Dorakkā no "Management" o Yondara'' ("What if the Female Manager of a High School Baseball Team Read Drucker's ''Management''?") aka [[Moshidora]] - the title card for the anime and the cover of the novel both write the title so that it splits into two lines with "Moshi" and "Dora" at the beginning of each, thus the abbreviation. The anime title card highlights this.
* Most episode titles in ''[[Best Student Council]]'' are of perfectly normal length, but episode 18 blindsides the viewer with "Hitoshi Satou, 28 years old, Occupation: Lawyer, Parents are Rich, and Even More Good Qualities to Make Him a Favorable Partner."
* ''[[Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete Mo Omaera ga Warui]]'' which could be seen as a little bit like a [[Gender FlippedFlip]]ped [[The World God Only Knows]], sans supernatural [[Myth Arc]]. Kuroki has gotten most of her socialization practice from Otome games and can't interact well with real people outside of her family. The difference between her and [[A God Am I|Keima]] [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Katsuragi]] is that she's trying to be more social, while Keima just wants everyone to leave him alone and let him play his games. Each character seems to be achieving the goal of the other.
* ''Danjon ni Deai o Motomeru no wa Machigatteiru Darō ka'', which has the equally-long English title ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]''
* ''[[Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea]]'' (or ''Gake no Ue no Ponyo''), which is often marketed and known as simply ''Ponyo''. [[Downplayed]] in this case. Although the title is long, it has absolutely ''nothing'' on other titles in this category.
 
== [[Comic Books]]: Or, Short stories printed on paper told through a mixture of sequential images and bubbles containing text, indicating what the characters are saying, thinking, and occasionally doing. ==
* ''The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (And The Dead Left In His Wake)''
* The second volume of James Stokoe's comedy Sci-fi series called ''[[Wonton Soup]] 2: Hyper Wonton Soup 2 Twoton soup: The Quickening 2 ... Soup''.
* ''Action Comics'' issue 775 has the Superman story "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?".
 
== [[Fan Works]]: Or, The results of creative endeavours undertaken by admirers and devotees of particular existing works created with the intention of expanding or adding to the aforesaid particular existing works ==
== Film: Or, A most intriguing series of celluloid photographs, documenting a theatrical work for all posterity, projected upon a silvered screen in a grand auditorium by means of a powerful beam of light; in addition, an analogous method that does away with the celluloid stock and achieves same by means of a rather complex series of ciphers unscrambled and transcribed by miniature calculating engines ==▼
* ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'' is meant to be evocative of Japanese light novel titles of the late 2010s, when the story was started.
 
▲== [[Film]]: Or, A most intriguing series of celluloid photographs, documenting a theatrical work for all posterity, projected upon a silvered screen in a grand auditorium by means of a powerful beam of light; in addition, an analogous method that does away with the celluloid stock and achieves same by means of a rather complex series of ciphers unscrambled and transcribed by miniature calculating engines ==
* ''Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2: In Shocking 2-D''.
* ''Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Hellbound, Flesh-Eating Subhumanoid Zombified Living Dead, Part 3''
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* ''Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean''
 
== [[Literature]]: Or, Written manuscripts, often from a bygone time when the usage of In Which A Trope Is Described was more common or dealing with technical subjects that must be stated precisely ==
* Jonathan Swift liked this trope:
** ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships''. Nowadays called ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''.
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* Jean-Pierre Dufreigne's novel ''Le dernier amour d'Aramis, ou les vrais Mémoires du chevalier René d'Herblay, qui devint évêque de Vannes, duc d'Alameda, Grand d'Espagne, ambassadeur de Sa Majesté Très Catholique, Préposé général des Jésuites, et fut mousquetaire du Roi de France dans la compagnie de M. de Tréville sous le nom d'Aramis''. It's an unofficial sequel to ''[[The Three Musketeers|Vicomte de Bragelonne]]''.
* "The Practical Distiller: or an introduction to making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of better quality, and in larger quantities, than produced by the present mode of distilling, from the produce of the United States: such as Rye, Corn, Buckwheat, Apples, Peaches, Potatoes, Pumpions and Turnips. With directions how to conduct and improve the practical part of distilling in all its branches. Together with directions for purifying, clearing and colouring Whiskey, making Spirits similar to French Brandy, &c. from the Spirits of Rye, Corn, Apples, Potatoes &c. &c. and sundry extracts of approved receipts for making Cider, domestic Wines, and Beer." By Samuel [[Mc Harry]], of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania (1809) is notable for not only being immensely long, but also including '&c.' (etc.) in its title. Meaning it is in some ways an abbreviation.
* While ''{{color|blue|House}}'' ''[[House of Leaves|Of<span style="color:blue;">House</span> of Leaves]]'' itself is not an example, some of the fictitious references cites in its [[Footnote Fever|footnotes]] qualify, e.g. ''Women Who Can't Love: When a Woman's Fear Makes Her Run from Commitment and What a Smart Man Can Do About It''.
* [[Harlan Ellison]]'s [[Hugo Award]] winning story, "Adrift Just Off the Islets of Langerhans: Latitude 38° 54' N, Longitude 77° 00' 13" W".
* In the introduction to one edition of ''The [[Discworld]] Companion'', [[Terry Pratchett]] refers to his research involving reading Victorian books with titles so long that there is a refreshment stand at the half-way point.
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** ''I Was Kicked out of the Hero’s Party Because I Wasn’t a True Companion so I Decided to Have a Slow Life at the Frontier''
** ''[[Marked for Failure, the World's Strongest Sage Reincarnates for a Do-Over!]]''
* [[Diana Wynne Jones]]'s ''[[Castle in the Air]]'' has the absolutely massive chapter "Which Tells how Flower-in-the-Night's Father Wished to Raise Abdullah Above All Others in the Land".
 
== [[Live-Action TelevisionTV]]: Or, Televisual productions created through the orchestrated performance of living actors rather than by means of flashing pictures or other such deceptions ==
* ''Britain's Got The Pop Factor... And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice'', a comedy mash-up of various [[Reality TV]] shows (''Britain's Got Talent'', ''Pop Idol'', ''X Factor'', ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'', ''Strictly Come Dancing'' etc.) Gains bonus points for the fact that the presenter announced its full name before and after every commercial break.
* An episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' was titled "The Sound of the Trumpets of Conscience Falls Deafly on a Brain That Holds Its Ears...or Something Like That!".
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* ''[[The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret]]'' has a long title, and "A Plan Is Hatched and a Date Is Not a Date" is the shortest episode title of the show.
 
== [[Radio]]: Or, The spoken word of the human voice transmitted miraculously upon the aether by the appropriate application of wireless emissions of suitable wavelength, to be received across great distances by a carefully calibrated apparatus ==
* Although the actual title is given as ''Punt and Dennis: It's Been A Bad Week'', that comedy current-affairs show is often referred to by the title of its prize - ''[[Department of Redundancy Department|The Worst Week of the Week Award, Awarded Weekly on a Week-by-Week Basis]]''. Which is mentioned at the end of every round.
* The comedy troupe ''[[Firesign Theater]]'' released an album entitled ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All''
* One episode of BBC radio comedy ''[[The Burkiss Way]]'' is usually referred to as "Lesson 45: Write Extremely Long Titles The Burkiss Way". The ''full'' title, given in the Radio Times, was "Lesson 45: Write Extremely Long Titles With Lots And Lots Of Words In, Like This, So That The Radio Times Will Have To Allot More Space Than The Measly Half A Centimetre Of Billing Space We Usually Get And At Least It'll Look A Bit More Prominent On The Page, Although Still Nowhere Near The 50 Column Inches They Give To The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy The Burkiss Way".
 
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]]: Or, Amusingly Droll Presentations Given for the Entertainment of Listeners Either In Person or Through Some Manner of Mechanical or Electric Transcription ==
== Theatre: Or, Works written with the intention of live performance in front of an audience upon the theatrical stage ==▼
* The comedy troupe [[The Firesign Theatre]] is known for (among other things) the very long titles they gave their earliest albums: ''Waiting for the Electrician or Someone Like Him'' (1968), ''How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All'' (1969) and ''Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers'' (1970).
 
▲== [[Theatre]]: Or, Works written with the intention of live performance in front of an audience upon the theatrical stage ==
* ''[[Marat/Sade|The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade]]''. In the original German, ''Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade'', is a bit shorter. It's a play and a film, and it's pretty much [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
** Publicists and playbill designers shortened this to ''Marat/Sade''.
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* Just about any of the ''Farndale Ladies'' plays; a stand-out is ''They Came From Mars and Landed Outside the Farndale Avenue Church Hall in Time for the Townswomen’s Guild’s Coffee Morning''.
 
== [[Video Games]]: Or, Calculating-machine entertainment whereby the audience—through manipulation of articulating levers and buttons—may participate in a pseudo-holographic (although subject to change) performance and regulate the transpiration of events, as by a character within ==
* In-[[Video Games|game]] example: [[Half Life|Gordon Freeman]]'s doctoral thesis was titled ''Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction Through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array'', which doubles as [[Techno Babble]].
* ''Attack Of The Mutant Zombie Flesh-Eating Chickens From Mars, starring Zappo The Dog'' ([[Vaporware]] in it's original form, but later rewritten badly by some other people and released under the rather shorter title of ''Star Paws'').
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* ''[[Accidental Innuendo|Golf Magazine: 36 Great Holes Starring Fred Couples]]''.
* ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army|Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs The Soulless Army]]'' and its sequel ''[[Raidou Kuzunoha VS King Abaddon|Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2: Raidou Kuzunoha Vs KingAbaddon]]''. [[Atlus ARAM]] noted that people who complain about it "are only jealous theirs isn't as long". (''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' was not part of the Japanese titles of these games, however.)
* GameSpot did for two years in a row an award for "Most Long-Winded Game Title". In [https://web.archive.org/web/20120812211157/http://www.gamespot.com/pages/features/bestof2005/index.php?day=3&page=6 2005], it was on by ''[[In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It|Peter Jackson's]] [[King Kong]]: The Official Game of the Movie''. In [https://web.archive.org/web/20070214001403/http://www.gamespot.com/special_features/bestof2006/honors/index.html?page=5%3Fpage%3D5 2006] the first Shin Megami Tensei title mentioned above won (over entries such as ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]: The Battle for Middle-Earth II: [[Colon Cancer|The Rise of the Witch-King]]''). Both years had ''[[Xenosaga]]'' games (which follow the system ''Xenosaga: Episode # - [[Gratuitous German|Untranslated Nietzsche quote]]'').
* The UK/Australian titles of the Brain Age Express [[DSiWare]] titles are ''A Little Bit of... Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: [something edition]''
* ''[[AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! - A Reckless Disregard for Gravity]]'':
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* [[wikipedia:Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters|Escape From The Planet Of The Robot Monsters]], an arcade game released by Atari Games in 1989.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]]: Or, Games involving the manipulation of tangible objects such as paper cards, miniatures and dice, usually played atop a table by several persons (though the floor may be used if there is no table offering enough area) ==
* The grand-daddy of miniature wargaming, H. G. Wells's ''Little Wars: a game for boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys' games and books.''.
* [[Magic: The Gathering]] has a [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74237 card] called the ''Our Market Research Shows That Players Like Really Long Card Names So We Made this Card to Have the Absolute Longest Card Name Ever Elemental'', or ''OMRSTPLRLCNSWMTCTHTALCNEE'' for short.
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* The nonsensical fangame Super Hyper Paper Deluxe Mario Bros. Galaxy World Land 4: Partners in Sunshine [[Super Star]] Island & Saga of Time Advance 64 DS and its sequels have this.
 
== Webcomics[[Web Comics]]: Or, Stories available on the internet told through a mixture of sequential images and bubbles containing text, indicating what the characters are saying, thinking, and occasionally doing, much like a comic book but without commission. ==
* A [[Troll]] in ''[[Homestuck]]'' explains that in his planet, billions of years in the future, every short title has been used up, and so the titles are [[Understatement|more descriptive]].
{{quote|<span style{{=}}"color|:#626262|;">CG: WHEREIN NUMEROUS VIGILANTES CONFRONT PERIL; ONE OF THEM BETRAYS THE OTHERS; (BUT IT TURNS OUT TO BE PART OF THE PLAN ALL ALONG);}}</span>
<span style{{=}}"color|:#626262|;">CG: SEVERAL ATTRACTIVE FEMALE LEADS PROVOKE ROMANTIC TENSION; FOUR MAJOR CHARACTERS WEAR UNUSUAL HATS; ONE HOLDS PLOT-CRITICAL SECRET;}}</span>
<span style{{=}}"color|:#626262|;">CG: 47 ON-SCREEN EXPLOSIONS, ONE RESULTING IN DEMISE OF KEY-ADVERSARY; 6 to 20 LINES THAT COULD BE CONSTRUED AS HUMOROUS;}}</span>
<span style{{=}}"color|:#0715cd|;">EB: wait...}}</span>
<span style{{=}}"color|:#0715cd|;">EB: this is the title?}}</span>
<span style{{=}}"color|:#626262|;">CG: IT GOES ON.}} </span>}}
** When you finally get a look on carcinoGeneticist's room, you can see the associated movie posters.
* ''[[The Incredible and Awe Inspiring Serial Adventure of The Amazing Plasma-Man]]''
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130719183405/http://www.drunkduck.com/I_Was_Kidnapped_By_Lesbian_Pirates_From_Outer_Space/ I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space]
 
== [[Web OriginalsOriginal]] Works: Or, Various pieces of fiction falling under a variety of descriptions distinguished by their initial appearance on a network previously establish to better facilitate the sharing of information between computers. ==
* ''[[The Horribly Slow Murderer With the Extremely Inefficient Weapon]]''. Also an example of [[Gory Deadly Overkill Title of Fatal Death]]
 
== [[Western Animation]]: Or, Televisual performances produced throughout the Occident, mostly in the United States of America, made possible through the rapid display of slightly differing artistic renderings to create the illusion of movement ==
* ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' had an episode called "The Creature that Lived in the Refrigerator, behind the Mayonnaise, next to the Ketchup, and to the Left of the Cole Slaw!", and the eponymous creature is referred to by the full title every time it's mentioned.
* ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'' used this, with each episode title being longer than the last, until episode 5: "Dante and Randal and Jay and Silent Bob and a Bunch of New Characters and Lando, Take Part in a Whole Bunch of Movie Parodies Including But Not Exclusive To, [[The Bad News Bears]], [[The Last Starfighter]], [[Indiana Jones]] and the Temple Of Doom, Plus a High School Reunion."
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'' did an episode called "Wooldoor Sockbat's Giggle-Wiggle Funny Tickle Non-Traditional Progressive Multicultural Roundtable!"
** There's also an organization in [[Drawn Together]] called "Special Tactical Operations Unit To Catch People Who Set Up Suicide Hotlines Because Of A Reality Show Challenge And Then Didn't Follow Through On Them So They Cause The People Who Needed Them To Take Their Own Lives And Then They Change Their Minds When They Realize Not All People Should Be Forced to Live So They Try To Assist Someone In Euthanasia". Or STOUTCPWSUSHBOARSCATDFTOTSTCTPWNTTTTOLATTCTMWTRNAPSBFTLSTTTASIE for short.
* ''[[Chowder]]'' had one episode called "Field Tournament Style Up and Down On the Ground Manja Flanja Blanja Banja Ishka Bibble Babble Flabble Doma Roma Floma Boma Jingle Jangle Every Angle Bricka Bracka Flacka Stacka Two Ton Rerun Free for All Big Ball". In TV listings, it's often shortened to ''"Big Ball".
* ''[[King of the Hill]]'' has "What Happens at the National Propane Gas Convention in Memphis Stays at the National Propane Gas Convention in Memphis" as well as the (as of now unaired) "When Joseph Met Lori, and Made Out with Her in the Janitor's Closet".
** Also a season 5 episode when Joseph hits puberty which is called "[[Paula Cole|I Don't Want to Wait for Our Lives to Be Over, I Want to Know Right Now, Will It Be... Sorry. Do Do Doo Do Do, Do Do Doo Do Do, Do Do Doo Do Do, Doo...]]"
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* At least three Hanna-Barbera shows had long titles: ''[[Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines]]'', ''[[Josie and the Pussy Cats|Josie And The Pussycats In Outer Space]]'', and ''The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley.''
* ''[[Squidbillies]]'' had an episode entitled "Mephistopheles Traveled Below to a Southern State Whose Motto Is 'Wisdom, Justice, and Moderation".
* The soundtrack to ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs]]'' was released in 1938 under the full title ''Songs from Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (with the Same Characters and Sound Effects as in the Film of That Title)''.
 
== [[Other Media]]: Or, Honourable mentions arising from miscellaneous aesthetic productions that somehow elude veracious insertion underneath any of the aforementioned categorical headings ==
* Some of Salvador Dali's paintings have ridiculously specific (but [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|precisely accurate]]; they belong to ''[[True Art Is Incomprehensible|that]]'' [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|kind of art]]) titles: ''Apparition of a Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach'', ''Face of Mae West Which May Be Used as an Apartment'', ''Slave Market with the Disappearing Bust of Voltaire'', ''Gala Contemplating the Mediterranean Sea Which at Twenty Meters Becomes the Portrait of Abraham Lincoln'', ''One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate''...
* Also Joseph Wright of Derby's painting ''A Philosopher giving a Lecture on the Orrery in which a lamp is put in place of the Sun''.
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* J.M.W. Turner painted in 1840: "Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhon Coming On)" and it's better known now as simply "The Slave Ship." At the time, Punch Magazine lampooned the title with one of their own: "A Typhoon, Bursting A Simmoon, Over A Whirlpool Maelstrom, Norway, A Ship on Fire, An Eclipse, With the Effect of a Lunar Rainbow."
* ''[http://earlgreytea68.livejournal.com/67159.html Chaos Theory in Vortex Orbits in Relative Dimensions in Time and Space]'' a [[Doctor Who]] [[Kid Fic]] by [http://earlgreytea68.livejournal.com/ earlgreytea68.]
* The full title of the book commonly known as Nathaniel Bowditch's ''The New American Practical Navigator'' is so long that both Wikipedia and Wikisource don't even ''try'' to transcribe it, and [[c:File:BowditchAPN-first-edition-title-page.png|just gives a picture instead]].
 
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