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    <body><![CDATA[this book was amazing, and reading it afffter seeing all his movies you see how closely aligned they are with his life. it was weird and strange and seems super surreal for it to have actually been his life in a really calming, reassuring but poetic way.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[El Topo let me say a must see &amp; read the book. Introduction to this movie years ago...<br/>Those that know ... know.]]></body>
    
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