The Collected Works of Ted Kaczynski

Book Compilations Order

Industrial Society and Its Future

Draft versions (pre-June 1995)

Ted didn’t name all the authors influencing his writing of the manifesto as “he had sent letters (in his own name, without bombs) to the authors he admired, and he feared that citing them would provide leads for the FBI.” But they are archived at the Uni. of Michigan.

• Handwritten Draft found in Ted’s Cabin

• Secret Footnotes
  

Washington post version (1995)

• Original Copy Sent to The Post (Jun 1995)

• How Ted Expected it to be Published (Jun 1995)

• Washington Post Version (Sep 1995)

First prison corrected version (2003)

Corrected grammar.

• Industrial Society and its Future (2003 Version)

Feral House version (2010)

First book published version Ted was happy with, with corrected grammar and the diagram is deleted.

• In Summary (2008)

• Industrial Society and It’s Future (2010)

• Postscript (2007)

• Afterthoughts (2010)

Wilderness Front version (2021)

Includes a short preface where Ted explains some of the few ways his views have evolved in a different direction since writing the manifesto and the diagram is deleted.

• Preface

• Industrial Society and It’s Future (Feral House version)

Latest Fitch & Madison version (2022)

Includes updated passages and footnotes, plus the diagram is deleted.

• Industrial Society and It’s Future

• Further Comments

Truth versus Lies

Original Draft

Misses out appendices and updates Ted wrote later:

• Truth Versus Lies (Original Draft)

Context Books Copy

Includes some updates and appendices Ted wanted. But lawyers toned down some of the language due to libel fears and deleted parts out of copyright fears. The book was stopped mid-printing and the publisher went out of business not long after:

• Truth versus Lies (Context Books Copy)

Volunteers Draft

Used the original draft as a basis, but included some updates and appendices we know Ted wanted from his correspondence with the publisher.

Abbreviated names have been replaced with real names based on Envelope X, since it’s often over 50 years since many of the events transpired.

Plus, secondary footnotes have been added for clarity and to mark where various people’s names are first mentioned:

• Truth versus Lies (Volunteers Updated Draft)

Technological Slavery

1^st Edition

• Foreword

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• The Coming Revolution

• The Road to Revolution

• Morality and Revolution

• Hit where it hurts

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to an Anonymous German

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to A.O.

• Letter to Scientific American

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K.

• Letter to J.N.

• Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions

• Why the Future Needs Ted Kaczynski by Dr.Patrick Barriot

• A Revolutionary for Our Times by David Skrbina

• Bibliography

2^nd Edition

• Author’s Note to the Second Edition

• A Revolutionary for Our Times by David Skrbina

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• The Coming Revolution

• The Road to Revolution

• Morality and Revolution

• Hit where it hurts

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to an Anonymous German

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to A.O.

• Letter to Scientific American

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K.

• Letter to J.N.

• Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions

• Afterthoughts

• Bibliography

3^rd Edition

• Note on the Fourth Edition

• Letter to Scientific American

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to an Anonymous German

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to A.O.

• Letter to J.N.

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K.

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists

• On Learned Helplessness

• Human Will Versus the “Objective” Forces of History

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste

• Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because...

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups

• In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B.

• Bibliography

4^th Edition

Volume 1

• Note on the Fourth Edition

• Letter to Scientific American

• Industrial Society and Its Future

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter Correspondence With David Skrbina

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to an Anonymous German

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to A.O.

• Letter to J.N.

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K.

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists

• On Learned Helplessness

• Human Will Versus the “Objective” Forces of History

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste

• Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because...

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups

• In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B.

• Bibliography

Volume 2

Coming soon. The book will at least includes these 5 texts:[1][2]

• Commentaries on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

• Is There Such a Thing as Wilderness?

• Principles of Organization and Leadership

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• Morality and Revolution

It’s possible the book will also contain older texts such as:

• The Coming Revolution

• The Road to Revolution

• Hit where it hurts

• Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions

Anti-Tech Revolution

1^st Edition

• Preface

• The Development of a Society Can Never Be Subject to Rational Human Control

• Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself

• How to Transform a Society: Errors to Avoid

• Strategic Guidelines for an Anti-Tech Movement

• In Support of Chapter One

• In Support of Chapter Two

• Stay on Target

• The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering

• List of Works Cited

2^nd Edition

• Preface to the Second Edition

• The Development of a Society Can Never Be Subject to Rational Human Control

• Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself

• How to Transform a Society: Errors to Avoid

• Strategic Guidelines for an Anti-Tech Movement

• In Support of Chapter One

• In Support of Chapter Two

• Stay on Target

• The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering

• On Thurston’s View of Stalin’s Terror & State Terrorism in General

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society

• List of Works Cited

Chronological Order

Pre-Manifesto

• Neanderthal Man (~1955)

• Ted Kaczynski’s 1958 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski’s 1959 Autobiography

• The Groovy Revolution (Dec 13 1969)

• Letter to the editor on gun-control, automobile laws, and compulsory psychological screening (Dec 14 1969)

• We must sit here and take it (Dec 17, 1969)

• The future may not be that rosy (Jan 10 1970)

• The Saturday Review Book Forum (Jan 10, 1970)

• Snowmobiles only provide short-term thrills (Jan 17, 1970)

• Letter to Editor on the Population Problem (Jan 18 1970)

• Frontier Freedoms and Space Age Cities (Feb 28 1970)

• Cities are boring people to death (March 23, 1970)

• Liberty Is In Danger (April 25, 1970)

• Some politicians want to turn people into robots (May 2, 1970)

• The Wave of the Future (Jun 13, 1970)

• Why you Canadians should support population control (Jun 30, 1970)

• Stick to your traditional values (Aug 14 1970)

• Letter to the Editor on Scientific Development (Nov 21 1970)

• The hypocrisy of oil propaganda (Jan 26 1971)

• Progress Versus Liberty (1971)

• How I Blew Up Harold Snilly (~1976)

• The Government Should Stop Supporting Research (Jun 1977)

• Try Snowshoes for a Change (Feb 21 1978)

• An Insulting Limerick (1978)

• An early attempt to argue for hunter-gatherer societies or human extermination (May 8 1979)

• Progress Versus Wilderness (1979)

• Ted Kaczynski’s 1979 Autobiography

• How people will replace machines (Jan 26 1980)

• The Flies (Oct 3 1982)

• Our First Cigarette (Sep 7 1983)

• Reflections on Purposeful Work (1983)

• Juan Darien (Oct 3 1984)

• To a Nose (Oct 3 1984)

• The Wild Colt (Sep 9 1985)

• Ravens Make Interesting Neighbors (Nov 1985)

• The Fort of Tacquil (Dec 1985)

• A Personal Review of Karl Garrison’s ‘Psychology of Adolescence’ (~1985)

• A Personal Review of Martin Seligman’s book ‘Helplessness’ (Feb 22 1988)

• Ted Kaczynski’s 1988 Autobiography (May 1988)

• Warning to Berry Pickers and Mushroom Hunters! (Aug 6 1989)

Industrial Society and Its Future

• Handwritten Draft found in Ted’s Cabin (prior to June 1995)

• Original Copy Sent to The Post (Jun 1995)

• How Ted Expected it to be Published (Jun 1995)

• Ted’s Book Version (Jun 1995)

• Washington Post Version (Sep 1995)

Post-Manifesto

• A Scientific American Article Theorizing a Tech Induced Apocalypse & The Unabomber’s Response (1995)

• Rethinking Environmental-First Nations Relationships and Responses (1995)

• A Shift Towards Hopefulness (Jan 23 1996)

Post-Arrest

• Apology to Women (Oct 2 1996)

• A Statement by Ted K on his Trial Verdict (Jan 26 1998)

• Statements made during Ted Kaczynski’s Sentencing (May 4 1998)

• Ted’s note for the Earth First! Journal advocating a split (Nov 29 1998)

• Theresa Kintzs’ Interview with Ted Kaczynski (~Feb 1999)

• Truth versus Lies (May 10 1999)

• I do not find it difficult to survive here (Jun 1999)

• Time Magazine’s Interview with Ted Kaczynski (~Sep 1999)

• Answer to Some Comments Made in Green Anarchist (1999)

• Ship of Fools (1999)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Comments on Timothy McVeigh (Apr 25 2000)

• Morality and Revolution (1^st Edition) (~2000)

• Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski (Jan 2001)

• Morality and Revolution (2^nd Edition) (Jun 2000)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Review of ‘A History of Modern Psychology’ (Apr 17 2001)

• Marcos Loves Modernization (Fall 2001)

• When Non-Violence Is Suicide (2001)

• Letter to J.N. (2001)

• Hit where it hurts (2002)

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina (2003—2005)

• Survival of the Smallest & Responses (Mar 10 2005)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Interview with a Turkish Primitivist (2005)

• The Myth of Erk (2005)

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions (May 4 2007)

Technological Slavery — 1^st Edition

• In Summary (Oct 20 2008)

• The Truth About Primitive Life (Oct 20 2008)

• The Coming Revolution (Oct 20 2008)

• The System’s Neatest Trick (Oct 20 2008)

• Notes on his book Technological Slavery (Oct 20 2008)

• The Road to Revolution (Oct 20 2008)

• Postscript to the Manifesto (Oct 20 2008)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to A.O. (Oct 20 2008)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Letter to an Anonymous German (Oct 20 2008)

• Ted Kaczynski letter to M.K. (Oct 20 2008)

Technological Slavery — 2^nd Edition

• Afterthoughts to Technological Slavery (14 Oct 2010)

2010–2016

• A Comment on the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (Jun 10 2010)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Interview with the John Jay Sentinel (Apr 2011)

• Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself (Jul 21 2011)

• A Halloween Story (Dec 11 2011)

• Commentaries on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals (Jan 29 2012)

• Ted Kaczynski on Individualists Tending Toward Savagery (Sept 2 2012)

• Notes From Ted & Ultimo on Fake Letters (Jun 10 2016)

• Ted Kaczynski’s Short Note Honoring Julie Ault (Nov 16 2016)

Anti-Tech Revolution — 1^st Edition

• The techies’ wet-dreams (Aug 31 2016)

• The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering (Aug 31 2016)

• Stay on Target (Aug 31 2016)

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society (Aug 31 2016)

2020

• Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism (Sep 29 2020)

Anti-Tech Revolution — 2^nd Edition

• On Thurston’s View of Stalin’s Terror & State Terrorism in General (2020)

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society (2020)

Technological Slavery — 4^th Edition

• In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B. (Jul 18 2022)

• On Learned Helplessness (Jul 18 2022)

• Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because... (Jul 18 2022)

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World (Jul 18 2022)

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos (Jul 18 2022)

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists (Jul 18 2022)

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste (Jul 18 2022)

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups (Jul 18 2022)

• Ted’s Updated Notes on His Manifesto (Jul 18 2022)

• Human Will Versus the “Objective” Forces of History (Jul 18 2022)

Compilations

• Technological Slavery

• He tried to save us

• Against Civilization

• Programme for the 2016 Benefit Event Honoring Julie Ault

• Ted Kaczynski’s Low-Tech Lifestyle

Unknown Date

• Dandelion Greens

• The Littering Ape

• On the probability of robots becoming more creative than humans

• Three Worthy Artisans

• The Adventures of H. Bascomb Thurgood

• On Privacy

• On Population Control

• On the Environmental Crisis and Individualism

• On Technology, Population, and Society

• In Defense of Violence

• Notes on Montana wilderness

• Is There Such a Thing as Wilderness?

• Independent Study in Introspective Psychology

• Principles of Organization and Leadership

• A Critique of Jared Diamond’s Collapse

• Some Suggestions Concerning Strategy

• A Fantasy

• If Earth First Had Been Around Sixty Years Ago

• Comment on anarchists

• Partial Translation of Die Bambuti by Paul Schebesta

Categorical Order

Life Close to the Wild

• Ted Kaczynski’s Low-Tech Lifestyle

• Try Snowshoes for a Change

• Ravens Make Interesting Neighbors

• Dandelion Greens

• Flower sketches

• Coprinus Comatus (Shaggy mane)

• Notes on Montana wilderness

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Political Books

Industrial Society and Its Future

• Handwritten Draft found in Ted’s Cabin

• Original Copy Sent to The Post

• How Ted Expected it to be Published

• Washington Post Version

• Ted’s Book Version

Technological Slavery

The full book was taken down after a threatening email from the publisher, but you can see the indexes at the top of this page and some of the component texts whose copyright ownership are in doubt:

• First Edition

• Second Edition

• Third Edition

• Fourth Edition

Anti-Tech Revolution

The same note for the book above applies to this book:

• First Edition

• Second Edition

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Autobiographical Sketches

• Ted Kaczynski’s 1958 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski’s 1959 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski’s 1979 Autobiography

• Ted Kaczynski’s 1988 Autobiography

• Truth versus Lies

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Pamphlets

• He tried to save us

• Programme for the 2016 Benefit Event Honoring Julie Ault

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Essays

Autobiographical

• Two Dreams

• How I Blew Up Harold Snilly

• A Shift Towards Hopefulness

• Explanation of the Judicial Opinions

• Apology to Women

• Ted Kaczynski’s Comments on Timothy McVeigh

• In Support of the Letter to Dr. P.B.

• Warning to Berry Pickers and Mushroom Hunters!

Philosophy

• Morality and Revolution (1^st Edition)

• Morality and Revolution (2^nd Edition)

• Morality and Revolution (3^rd Edition)

• Updates to the essay ‘Morality & Revolution’

• Human Will Versus the “Objective” Forces of History

• Is it good that some people feel sad about the animals killed painfully by hunter-gatherers?

• Is There Such a Thing as Wilderness?

Psychology

• A Personal Review of Karl Garrison’s ‘Psychology of Adolescence’

• A Personal Review of Martin Seligman’s book ‘Helplessness’

• On Learned Helplessness

• Reflections on Purposeful Work

• Ted Kaczynski’s Review of ‘A History of Modern Psychology’

• Independent Study in Introspective Psychology

History

• Neanderthal Man

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society

• Nations That Made a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because...

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• On Thurston’s View of Stalin’s Terror & State Terrorism in General

Anthropology

• Neanderthal Man

• The Littering Ape

Politics

Various Issues

• In Summary

• An early attempt to argue for hunter-gatherer societies or human extermination

• Progress Versus Liberty

• Progress Versus Wilderness

• Hit where it hurts

• A Comment on the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico

• Stay on Target

• The Coming Revolution

• The Long-Term Outcome of Geo-Engineering

• The System’s Neatest Trick

• The Road to Revolution

• The techies’ wet-dreams

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists

• Why Democracy is the Dominant Political Form of the Modern World

• Sarmiento and the Gauchos

• Disposal of Radioactive Waste

• Nations That Make a Conscious Decision to Adopt Democratic Government Usually Did So Because They Believed That Democracy Would Help Them to Achieve Economic and Technological Success

• On Thurston’s View of Stalin’s Terror & State Terrorism in General

• The Teachings of Jesus Christ and Their Effect on Society

• A Scientific American Article Theorizing a Tech Induced Apocalypse & The Unabomber’s Response

• Commentaries on Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals

• Why the Technological System Will Destroy Itself

• The Wave of the Future

• The Government Should Stop Supporting Research

• Letter to Editor on the Population Problem

• Frontier Freedoms and Space Age Cities

• Letter to the Editor on Scientific Development

• The Groovy Revolution

• On the probability of robots becoming more creative than humans

• Letter to the editor on gun-control, automobile laws, and compulsory psychological screening

• Principles of Organization and Leadership

• A Critique of Jared Diamond’s Collapse

• Some Suggestions Concerning Strategy

• A Fantasy

Updated thoughts on his manifesto

• Postscript to the Manifesto

• Afterthoughts to Technological Slavery

• Loyalty to the System Versus Loyalty to Traditional Social Groups

Violence

• When Non-Violence Is Suicide

• In Defense of Violence

Critique of some leftists

• The Truth About Primitive Life

• Answer to Some Comments Made in Green Anarchist

• Marcos Loves Modernization

• Rethinking Environmental-First Nations Relationships and Responses

• If Earth First Had Been Around Sixty Years Ago..., Superseded version, per TK annotation

• Comment on anarchists

Critique of some rightists

• Ecofascism: An Aberrant Branch of Leftism

• Ted Kaczynski on Individualists Tending Toward Savagery

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Published Correspondences

• A Scientific American Article Theorizing a Tech Induced Apocalypse & The Unabomber’s Response (1995)

• Extract from Letter to J.N. (April 29, 2001)

• Excerpts from Letter to M.K. (October 4, 2003)

• Extracts from Letters to David Skrbina (2004–2005)

• Extract from a Letter to A.O. (June 30, 2004)

• Excerpts from Letters to a German (2006)

• Letter to Dr. P.B. on the Motivations of Scientists (May 2009)

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Newspaper & Magazine Articles & Letters to the Editor

Published

• We must sit here and take it — Dec 17, 1969

• The future may not be that rosy — Jan 10, 1970

• The Saturday Review Book Forum — Jan 10, 1970

• Snowmobiles only provide short-term thrills — Jan 17, 1970

• Letter to the Saturday Evening Review — Feb 28, 1970

• Cities are boring people to death — March 23, 1970

• Liberty Is In Danger — April 25, 1970

• Some politicians want to turn people into robots — May 2, 1970

• Controlling the weather sometimes will lead to people choosing less diversity in weather in the long-term — June 13, 1970

• Why you Canadians should support population control — June 30, 1970

• Stick to your traditional values — August 14, 1970

• The hypocrisy of oil propaganda — Jan 26, 1971

• How people will replace machines — Jan 26, 1980

• Survival of the Smallest & Responses

Unpublished

• On Privacy

• On Population Control

• On the Environmental Crisis and Individualism

• On Gun Control

• On Technology, Population, and Society

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Notes

• Ted’s Updated Notes on His Manifesto

• Notes on his book Technological Slavery

• Notes From Ted & Ultimo on Fake Letters

• A Statement by Ted K on his Trial Verdict

• I do not find it difficult to survive here

• Ted’s note for the Earth First! Journal advocating a split

• Ted Kaczynski’s Short Note Honoring Julie Ault

  • Programme for the 2016 Benefit Event Honoring Julie Ault

• An Insulting Limerick

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Fictional Stories

• Ship of Fools

• A Halloween Story

• Three Worthy Artisans

• The Adventures of H. Bascomb Thurgood

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Translations

• Grijalva’s Revenge on the Apaches

• Our First Cigarette

• Juan Darien

• To a Nose

• The Wild Colt

• The Fort of Tacquil

• The Flies

• The Myth of Erk

• Partial Translation of Die Bambuti by Paul Schebesta

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Drawings & Diagrams

• Ted Kaczynski’s Drawings & Diagrams

• Ted Kaczynski’s Drawing Parodying Nazism

• Untitled Drawing by Ted Kaczynski

• Ted Kaczynski’s Parody of an Old Advertisement

• A Description of an Erotic Drawing

• Techno-Industrial Society Analogised as a Hydra

• Diagram of symptoms resulting from disruption of the power process

• Ted Kaczynski’s Self-Portrait

• Flower sketches

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Musical Works & Covers

Original Compositions

• March #4

• March #5

• Fantasia for Unaccompanied Nose Flute (Midi)

Covers

• Wabash Cannonball

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Cryptography

• Decoding Procedure

• Notebook X

• Fully Coded Notebooks of Crimes

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Mathematical Work

• The Mathematical Work of Ted Kaczynski

• Another Proof of Wedderburn’s Theorem

• Distributivity and (−1)x = −x (Advanced Problem 5210)

• Distributivity and (−1)x = −x (Advanced Problem 5210, with Solution by Bilyeu, R.G.)

• Boundary Functions for Functions Defined in a Disk

• On a Boundary Property of Continuous Functions

• PhD thesis at University of Michigan

• Note on a Problem of Alan Sutcliffe

• Boundary Functions for Bounded Harmonic Functions

• Boundary functions and sets of curvilinear convergence for continuous functions

• The Set of Curvilinear Convergence…

• Problem 787

• A Match Stick Problem (Problem 787, with Solutions by Gibbs, R.A. and Breisch, R.L.

• Four-Digit Numbers that Reverse Their Digits When Multiplied

• Handwritten Math equations and procedures

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Crafting Work

• A hand-crafted wooden cylinder

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Gardening Work

• Wild Carrot Big Yellow 1992

[1] Publisher’s website.

[2] Reddit comment from an insider in the know.