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Part II: Biographies"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv\u003EWho said her motto was \"Well, you can't expect to be liked in my business, but with any luck you can avoid going to jail\"?\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA biographer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EA nine-time biographer (including of Frank Lloyd Wright and Salvador Dali) who wrote a memoir called\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2251185\"\u003EShoot the widow\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003Ewhere she also avows that the purpose of biography is \"not just to record, but to reveal\".\u0026nbsp; Oh and did I mention anagrams in the last post? The biographer is named Meryle Secrest.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9780307264831\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9780307264831\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" height=\"200\" width=\"120\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9780307701596\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9780307701596\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" height=\"200\" width=\"133\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI haven't read the book, though I might yet, but I did read a review of it by the American critic and essayist Louis Menand in The New Yorker, where he goes on to take an amusing look at various aspects of the biographer's creed, such as their assumption that the real truth about a person will always involve the thing least known about them, and their belief that if they can just get their hands on the letters, all will be explained.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EBut why, Menand asks? \"Why should we especially credit a remark made in a diary or a personal letter? People lie in letters all the time, and they use diaries to moan and vent... They are sites for gossip, flattery, and self-deception.\" I can quote it because I actually ripped his article out and saved it, I liked it so much. (It was a \u003Ci\u003Ewithdrawn \u003C\/i\u003ENew Yorker.)\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EIn answer to the question, why do people like biographies so much, Menand says Secrest was to the point: people like gossip. And, he adds, they enjoy judging other people's lives. \"It's not one of the species' more attractive addictions, and, on the whole, it's probably better to indulge it on the life of a person you have never met\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo let's indulge! I'm not going to recommend any particular biographies, because it comes down to whom you want to know more about, and you will know that better than I do. But I did want to remind everyone that you can see all the new biographies as they arrive by checking our\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz\/EN\/New\/newtitles\/Pages\/newbookslist.aspx?sec=Adult%20non-fiction\u0026amp;cat=Biography\u0026amp;my=201701\"\u003Enew titles list\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;every month. Just this month there are 215 new biographies at the library, ranging from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb3229715\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003ECeleste\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the story of most celebrated\u003Ci\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003Ecourtesan in\u0026nbsp;\u003Ci\u003EBelle Epoque\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/i\u003EParis, to \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb3291341\"\u003EEmma Goldman: revolution as a way of life\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E by the astute but never arch Vivian Gornick, who presented her own memoir \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb3029537\"\u003EThe odd woman and the city\u003C\/a\u003E \u003C\/i\u003Eat the latest Auckland Writers Festival.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9781250010025\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.php?isbn=9781250010025\/lc.jpg\u0026amp;client=elgar\" height=\"200\" width=\"130\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EFor my Great Summer Read, I'm reading the new biography of Joan Didion, \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb3020171\"\u003EThe last love song\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003C\/i\u003Eby Tracy Daugherty, and I'm almost up to her childhood. Yes, because I firmly believe with big thick biographies like this one, the reader has the right to attack it any way they please. So for instance with Nicholas Shakespeare's big thick \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1310935\"\u003EBruce Chatwin biography\u003C\/a\u003E, which was 600 pages, I just kept it by my bedside for a couple of months (or more) and would simply open it at random and read far enough to get through the episode, and then stop. Another day, another random dip. It absolutely fit that mercurial character and his nomadic lifestyle.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EWith Joan, I've started at the end of the book, at the furthermost point from whatever we have in common -- namely, the present time, in which she is the literary \u003Ci\u003Edoyenne\u003C\/i\u003E of New York (which is to say of America). Also, I was eager to fill in the gaps in her magnetic but noticeably ungrounded (though not false), recent memoir \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/discover.elgar.govt.nz\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb2621626\"\u003EBlue Nights\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003C\/i\u003EThen I moved to the middle of the book, her time as movie industry royalty, this only \u003Ci\u003Ealmost\u003C\/i\u003E totally out of my range of experience, given that I had a boyfriend from Brentwood, the Los Angeles enclave where Didion lived for many of those years, and own a memory of a breakfast with him at a deli where her DNA was certainly floating around. And now I'm closing in on the opening chapters, to finish on the things which bring me closest to Joan: California girlhood, pioneer ancestors, close acquaintance with rattlesnakes, Highway 99, a fascination with the All-American canal.\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cdiv\u003EHow is the book? It's very very good, very very interesting, and very very well-written. But as far as revealing goes, I will say this. Asked by the man behind the \"Live from the NYPL\" author events to give him a seven word biography for his intro, Joan Didion responded with \"Seven words do not yet define me\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENeither does this book of 728 pages! Luckily!\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/3035726738179440149\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/great-summer-read-read-memoir-or_12.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3035726738179440149"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/3035726738179440149"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2017\/01\/great-summer-read-read-memoir-or_12.html","title":"Great Summer Read: Read a memoir or biography. Part II: Biographies"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}},{"id":{"$t":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2501884760724421053.post-451692732448996271"},"published":{"$t":"2013-02-09T17:00:00.000+13:00"},"updated":{"$t":"2014-08-27T23:48:05.434+12:00"},"category":[{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"George Orwell"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Joan Didion"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Karen"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"George Orwell gets a day!"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SnkBqZV6lAc\/URewcQKRLYI\/AAAAAAAAAHM\/wYRKhpQU8vk\/s1600\/1984.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SnkBqZV6lAc\/URewcQKRLYI\/AAAAAAAAAHM\/wYRKhpQU8vk\/s200\/1984.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"130\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EBy now he's gotten it, actually, but I've been away in California where among the many memorable experiences California always offers, I had not one but two that were distinctly Orwellian.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe first involved a menu where grilled veggies tacos were dubbed \"no-blame\", or maybe it was \"no-crime\", anyway an irksome example of groupthink, a term directly inspired by the newspeak vocabulary of Orwell's \u003Ci\u003E1984\u003C\/i\u003E; and the second was being threatened with a $285 jaywalking ticket by a policeman strangely reminiscent of Richard Burton as O'Brien in the film version of \u003Ci\u003E1984, \u003C\/i\u003Epockmarked complexion and all, who, just like O'Brien, came on bland and friendly at first, only to unexpectedly reveal a dark and dangerous side when I didn't seem to appreciate the seriousness of my position, suddenly spewing out a stream of incensed resentment towards all the people, including me, who had ever jaywalked across \"his\" street, as he called it -- one of the reasons I hadn't understood I was supposed to be taking it seriously. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo yes, George Orwell is as timely as ever, and now the Orwell Estate, \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/theorwellprize.co.uk\/\"\u003EThe Orwell Prize\u003C\/a\u003E and Penguin Books have launched an annual \"Orwell Day\" to recognise him as one of Britain's greatest writers (\"of the 20th century\" the Estate specified with what might be exaggerated modesty) and to \"celebrate his writing in all its forms and explore the profound influence he has had on the media and discourse of the modern world\".\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v8gZbSk63V8\/UReuhY9GXKI\/AAAAAAAAAG0\/fxmxNEJOdYA\/s1600\/Orwell%2Bthe%2Blife.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-v8gZbSk63V8\/UReuhY9GXKI\/AAAAAAAAAG0\/fxmxNEJOdYA\/s320\/Orwell%2Bthe%2Blife.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"150\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003EThe date chosen was January 21st, the anniversary of Orwell's death in 1950, aged just 47, from tuberculosis. I confess to wondering why, with the moving forces behind Orwell Day all being based in Britain, they didn't pick the date of his birth, June 25th, instead of that of his death, so that the celebrations could take place in summer, something British royalty finds so desirable as to institutionalise fictional summer birthdays for their monarchs. Not to mention that January 21 already has a celebration tied to it, namely, Squirrel Appreciation Day.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOf course, if it had been Toad Appreciation Day, that would have been apt for the author of \"Some Thoughts on the Common Toad\", one of my favourite Orwell essays, the one where he describes the toad emerging from the hole where he has been hibernating all winter like this:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EAt this period, after his long fast, the toad has a very spiritual look, like a strict Anglo-Catholic towards the end of Lent. His movements are languid but purposeful, his body is shrunken, and by contrast his eyes look abnormally large. This allows one to notice what one might not at another time, that a toad has about the most beautiful eye of any living creature. It is like gold, or more exactly it is like the golden-coloured semi-precious stone which one sometimes sees in signet-rings, and which I think is called a chrysoberyl.\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIt had not, on the other hand, occurred to me to conjecture about whether crass marketing was behind the date or indeed the whole initiative, until I read this comment on \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2013\/jan\/21\/george-orwell-day-begins-annual-commemoration\"\u003EThe Guardian's piece on the inaugural Orwell Day:\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003E\u0026nbsp;I can see the PR people at penguin rubbing their hands with glee. \"Oh look Caroline, golly gosh, what a super wheeze. An Orwell day. Lovely.\" It is so obviously a crass marketing ploy. Why not a Shakespeare Day, a Chaucer day, Dickens day, Waugh day, Kipling day, Conrad day, Greene day, Larkin day, Austin day, Conan Doyle day, an agatha christie day etc. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EI can't help considering a point made that wittily. And there is something to it: Orwell Day is different from say, Bloomsday, or Alice's Day, the first started by Joyce aficionados and the second by a Museum (the Story Museum in Oxford), in being \"unilaterally\" declared by enterprises who stand to make money by it. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESo perhaps instead of lingering on the Orwell Prize website, where a big deal is made out of making one of George Orwell's essays, \"Politics and the English Language\", available for free when, as another \u003Ci\u003EGuardian\u003C\/i\u003E reader pointed out, since Orwell's books are out of copyright in Australia, you can read all of \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/gutenberg.net.au\/ebooks03\/0300011h.html#part45\"\u003EOrwell's essays\u003C\/a\u003E for free on Project Gutenberg Australia (I used it just now to get my Toad Appreciation quote), I could highlight the month-long \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/radio\/posts\/A-season-of-George-Orwell-on-BBC-Radio-4\"\u003E\"The Real George Orwell\"\u003C\/a\u003E programme being run by BBC Radio 4, with biographical dramas, serialisations of the novels, and someone reading Orwell's letters aloud with an old-style English accent which nearly had me jumping out of my chair and to attention when it came at me out of my computer. (Orwell's voice was never recorded. In fact, it was deemed unsuitable for broadcast in a 1943 memo included in the BBC Archives' \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/archive\/orwell\/\"\u003EGeorge Orwell collection\u003C\/a\u003E, where however it was acknowledged that his name \"is of some value in quite important Indian circles\".)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPenguin Books, on its part, has contributed a clever new cover for \u003Ci\u003E1984\u003C\/i\u003E:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gHiw3NF4qK8\/UQb5iqtO6DI\/AAAAAAAAAGg\/GzawjTapWho\/s1600\/Penguin%2B1984.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-gHiw3NF4qK8\/UQb5iqtO6DI\/AAAAAAAAAGg\/GzawjTapWho\/s200\/Penguin%2B1984.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"177\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003Ewhich you can compare to other 1984 covers from around the world on goodread's \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/editions\/153313-nineteen-eighty-four\"\u003E401 editions of 1984\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGuardian Books celebrated the first Orwell Day by starting an Orwell fest on Twitter, getting people to join an \u003Ca href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23orwellquotes\u0026amp;src=hash\"\u003E#orwellquotes\u003C\/a\u003E hashtag with their favourite Orwell quotes. This didn't work for me, as my favourite Orwell quote is too long for Twitter, plus it's not a quote from Orwell but from Joan Didion about Orwell. Actually, about \u003Ci\u003EHomage to Catalonia\u003C\/i\u003E, his book about the Spanish Civil War, during which he joined and fought with an anti-fascist militia because, as he explains at the start of the book, what he saw in Spain seemed a \"state of affairs worth fighting for\". It appears in her novel \u003Ci\u003EDemocracy, \u003C\/i\u003Ea tour-de-force of writerly skill in which she is able to make an aging CIA agent a plausible love interest even for the young leftie I was when I read it, many years ago. I still have my copy, and although I had to hunt around a bit I eventually found the passage so I can share it at least on Books in the City and pay my own \"Homage to George Orwell\". \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe CIA agent has given Inez, the heroine of the book and his lover on those rare occasions when their paths cross, the key to an apartment in Hong Kong where she can wait for him to get back from Saigon where he has gone to find her missing daughter. The apartment is pretty much empty, the closet containing only a macintosh and some galoshes. She asks the CIA agent who it belongs to. \"Somebody in Vientiane\" is all he has to say.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote class=\"tr_bq\"\u003EShe presumed it was a woman because the galoshes and macintosh were small. She presumed the woman was an American because the only object in the medicine cabinet, a plastic botttle of aspirin tablets, was the house brand of a drugstore she knew to be in New York. She presumed that the American woman was a reporter because there was a standard Smith-Corona typewriter and a copy of \u003Ci\u003EModern English Usage \u003C\/i\u003Eon the kitchen table, and a paperback copy of \u003Ci\u003EHomage to Catalonia\u003C\/i\u003E in the drawer of the bed table. In Inez's experience all reporters had paperback copies of \u003Ci\u003EHomage to Catalonia, \u003C\/i\u003Eand kept them in the same place where they kept the matches and the candle and the notebook, for when the hotel was bombed. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHomage paid, I leave you with a trailer for the film version of 1984, made in 1984 with Richard Burton as O'Brien (his last role) and John Hurt, looking a lot like George Orwell, as Winston. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Cobject width=\"320\" height=\"266\" class=\"BLOGGER-youtube-video\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" data-thumbnail-src=\"https:\/\/ytimg.googleusercontent.com\/vi\/52wis_sLT1I\/0.jpg\"\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/youtube.googleapis.com\/v\/52wis_sLT1I\u0026source=uds\" \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/\u003E\u003Cparam name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/\u003E\u003Cembed width=\"320\" height=\"266\"  src=\"https:\/\/youtube.googleapis.com\/v\/52wis_sLT1I\u0026source=uds\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"\u003E\u003C\/embed\u003E\u003C\/object\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E"},"link":[{"rel":"replies","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/feeds\/451692732448996271\/comments\/default","title":"Post Comments"},{"rel":"replies","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/george-orwell-gets-day.html#comment-form","title":"0 Comments"},{"rel":"edit","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/451692732448996271"},{"rel":"self","type":"application/atom+xml","href":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/2501884760724421053\/posts\/default\/451692732448996271"},{"rel":"alternate","type":"text/html","href":"http:\/\/albooksinthecity.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/george-orwell-gets-day.html","title":"George Orwell gets a day!"}],"author":[{"name":{"$t":"Karen Craig"},"uri":{"$t":"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/18310967522076681423"},"email":{"$t":"noreply@blogger.com"},"gd$image":{"rel":"http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail","width":"23","height":"32","src":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-WaLn2rFYxqE\/UNvHlimMvBI\/AAAAAAAAABY\/ceYnAw1lZEk\/s220\/The%2BLibrarian.jpg"}}],"media$thumbnail":{"xmlns$media":"http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/","url":"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-SnkBqZV6lAc\/URewcQKRLYI\/AAAAAAAAAHM\/wYRKhpQU8vk\/s72-c\/1984.jpg","height":"72","width":"72"},"thr$total":{"$t":"0"}}]}});