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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<api>
  <query-continue>
    <alllinks galcontinue="Bits_and_pieces|87" />
  </query-continue>
  <query>
    <pages>
      <page pageid="7" ns="0" title="The present moment" />
      <page pageid="21" ns="10" title="Template:Notebook" />
      <page pageid="31" ns="0" title="No ideologies" />
      <page pageid="33" ns="0" title="Art and its perception" />
      <page pageid="38" ns="0" title="A fallible executive" />
      <page pageid="43" ns="0" title="Chemical interfaces" />
      <page pageid="46" ns="0" title="Systems&#039; propagation" />
      <page pageid="48" ns="0" title="Unconscious synaesthesia" />
      <page pageid="66" ns="0" title="&#039;Spiritual&#039; dimension" />
      <page pageid="76" ns="0" title="The mystic" />
    </pages>
  </query>
</api>