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Captioning sponsored by FOX
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and TWENTIETH
CENTURY FOX TELEVISION
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Today we'll be discussing
A Tale of Two Cities
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a terrific book
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by that most Dickensian
of authors, Charles Dickens.
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Okay, you've all read it.
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Come on, let's get
a dialogue going.
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Um, I really liked
the guillotine.
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Yes, yes.
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Um, why don't they
have the guillotine here?
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Well, I don't know,
but the theme...
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Did anyone ever try to pull
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their head out of the
guillotine at the last minute
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so, like, just the top of
their head got chopped off?
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Okay, are there any questions
not involving the guillotine?
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Anyone?
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Anything?
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So that's it?
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What about class differences?
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What about romantic love?
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Sacrifice and regret?
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Everything in life is between
the covers of this book, people.
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You went crazy.
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My husband likes his stories.
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People say he was
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a poor man's Hemingway
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but I think Hemingway was
a poor man's Hemingway.
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"Poor man's Hemingway."
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Uh, can I help you
find something?
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Well, yes.
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I am looking to
replace my well-worn
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and fully understood
copy of A Tale of Two Cities
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by Charles... Dickens.
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Of course. It's in
Classics to your left.
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Anyway, I hope
tonight's discussion
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will be as spirited
as the last one.
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You bring the opinions,
I'll bring the Merlot
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and I'm sure it will be.
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Merlot? Well, excuse me.
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You must be talking
about a book club.
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We are.
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A bientot.
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Pardon my French.
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Oh, es de nada.
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And my Spanish
needs no apologies.
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You know, as one
intellectual to another.
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I must say
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your book club sounds fun.
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And I do happen
to be free tonight.
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You're not free.
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You have a date with Dickens.
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That'll be $5.95.
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Yup.
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Yup.
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Oh, mind if I join you?
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I'm kind of in the mood
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for some stimulating
conversation.
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You've come to the right place.
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Now, Bill, you were opining
on a matter of some import.
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Oh, yeah.
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Why is it I like butter
but I don't like cheese?
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They're both yellow.
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Is it the texture?
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You do too like cheese, Bill.
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I've seen you eat it.
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No, I don't.
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Remember A Tale of Two Cities?
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Dickens?
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Well, I'm in the middle
of rereading it and it...
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Peggy, you've
seen Bill eat cheese.
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Why won't you take
my word for this?
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Cream cheese is cheese, Bill.
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No, it's not. It's butter.
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And if I'm in your book club
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I can assure you
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you'll never have to worry about
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long awkward pauses.
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Well, what do you think?
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If it were up to me,
I'd... think about it.
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But they only invite me
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because I give them a
discount on their books.
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And I'm closing the store
soon to retire anyway.
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My lease is up.
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Retiring?
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Everybody keeps
saying, "Leave Arlen?"
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But I've always wanted to spend
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my later years someplace
where it's nice and cold
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all year round.
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$600 a month for five years?
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I don't know.
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Hank, I really need
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to be around people
who love books.
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I will do all the work all
you have to do is cosign
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as you are the
one with an income
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and the house is in your name.
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Oh, please, Hank.
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I will be raking in
money with one hand
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and reading my book for
the book club with the other.
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Oh, Hank!
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My sacred mission
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to bring literature to
Arlen is now yours.
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Oh, wait, wait.
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One last thing.
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When do I start to
attend the book club?
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Oh, well, the next meeting
isn't for a couple of weeks.
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I'm sure they'll stop by.
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The best of luck to you, dear.
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Okay, this is it.
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Show time.
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Hello there, ma'am.
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We're here to support our local
bookseller and buy some books.
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Well, thank you,
handsome patron.
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Bobby, why don't you go
look in the adventure section.
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Anything about a boy with
gumption should be fine.
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"Clea, Huntress of Dragonvale.
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Part the Fifth of the
Elves of Evermore Series."
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Huh.
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You're listening to Peru Today
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on listener supported
public radio.
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So, how's the...
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Fantastic.
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Best decision I
ever made in my life.
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Good night, Hank.
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Oh, Dale.
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So this is a book store.
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Smells boring.
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Mm, have you thought about
putting saw dust on the floor?
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I'm getting apple everywhere.
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I'm sorry, Dale
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but this store is reserved
for customers and literati.
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So, why don't you
take your apple...
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It's a Braeburn.
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And get out?
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Okay. Wait.
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I am a customer.
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I'd like your thickest
book, please.
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Here's The Odyssey.
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It's thick, it's
old, it's Greek.
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This looks promising.
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Nih, nih, nih.
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What the hell are you doing?
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I can't hide a gun inside it
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without hollowing it out.
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Unless you have some precuts?
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Pardon me, ma'am but can you
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give me four
quarters for a dollar?
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No, I'm sorry. I have a sign.
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Hey, how much for the 1911-A-1?
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This baby is yours for, oh...
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300 dollars American.
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Sold.
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Dale, you cannot sell a
firearm in my bookstore.
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I know, I know.
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You want your house cut.
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20% to the madame.
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Madame, $60.00.
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In theory, I reject this money.
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It is only in practice
that I accept it.
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You know, this is a
perfect gun selling location.
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So, how 'bout it, Peggy?
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Can I sell guns
in this location?
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I've got literally oodles
of guns at home...
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Thank you for shopping
at Peggy's World of Books.
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Oh, thank you so much
for eating my free cookies.
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Hello, I just came by to see...
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Laura, thank
goodness you're here.
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I have only made one
sale in the past three days
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and that was just
a greeting card.
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Peggy, this has never been
a high-volume business.
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But the lease, I
mean, how did you...
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Oh, the executor
of my parents' estate
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sent a check every month
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interest from some such account.
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I never quite followed it.
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But you shouldn't
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concern yourself with that.
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We worship the written word,
not the almighty dollar, yes?
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Oh, well, yes, of course.
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And worse comes to worst
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you just get your husband
to write a check, right?
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I'm taking one of the Joyces.
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Good morning.
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Word to the wise, we have
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a new collection of
Barbara Kingsolver's stories
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that is her best in years.
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Guns, I suppose.
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Yes, ma'am.
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Straight in back.
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You know, we have a
book called Old Yeller.
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It's about a boy
who shoots a dog.
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With a gun.
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Welcome, gentlemen.
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The Tuesday special is
Saturday Night specials.
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Feel free to browse.
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Uh, here at the Book and Gun
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we're trying to
maintain a certain...
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What do you call it, Peggy?!
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Ambiance.
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Right. Ambiance.
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So we're having cappuccino.
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That's like coffee, right?
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I don't know.
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Oh, and if some
well-dressed ladies come in
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you're just here
to move a piano.
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What you reading there, son?
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Sports page.
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The sports page.
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Well, all right, Bobby.
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How's the Cowboy's defense...
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You know, same ol', same ol'.
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Ooh!
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Clea, Huntress of...
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I told you to get
an adventure book.
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But it is adventure.
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"The Elf-lord Fylfendell knelt
upon the bed of dandelions.
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"'Young wanderer, '
quoth he, 'I have woven you
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a magic breastplate..."'
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Bobby, television.
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Uh...
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I'm going to go with, uh...
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gun.
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Gih!
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Morning, officer.
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Do you have a
license to sell guns, sir?
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What I sell is a lifestyle.
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A life style free from...
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Books!
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We sell books here.
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The guns are simply a
promotional give-away.
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Yeah.
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Okay, as long as everybody
leaves this store with a book.
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Let me show you the
stylish nine millimeter Luger
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that comes free with any
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$600 purchase of
quality science-fiction.
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Dale, Glock.
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Oh, I been looking
for this little girl.
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Sometimes the boys like
to go down in the basement
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and test their piece.
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But don't worry, I
shut off the gas valve.
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Well, shot off the gas valve.
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Oh, my God...
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It's the freakin' book club!
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You get your skinny butt
down to the basement
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and pass out the silencers.
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Peggy, hello.
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It certainly is an...
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interesting atmosphere
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you've cultivated.
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So, the sign says
you're selling guns now?
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Oh, the sign.
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That old thing.
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You know, the "T" fell off.
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It's really supposed
to say "gunst."
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Surely you didn't
come here today
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for, for gunst.
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Enjoy. Good reading.
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Yes, well, these
good people are here
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from a historical
reenactment club.
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Today we are doing "America
in the Time of Whitman."
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What was that?
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Merely the anvil of
the village smithy.
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Making horseshoes, no doubt.
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Yes, well, we've come
to place our monthly order
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for the book club selection
A Dinner of Onions, by...
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Nora Harmony Wallace, of course.
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A chronicle of three generations
of an American family.
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I always wondered why
nobody's ever done that before.
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Uh, do you have any
peroxide and a clean towel?
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I just shot my dang hand.
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Oh, well, oh, okay.
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The, uh, Confederate
doctors will be here shortly
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to give you ether
and saw off your arm.
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Actors.
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Say, why don't you come
to the meeting yourself?
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To the book club? Really?
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And bring your
husband if you like.
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The club is mostly couples.
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Oh, yeah!
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Ankle holsters all
around on the house!
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All right!
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Hank, we are going
to the book club.
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Read this by Friday.
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You are excused
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from emptying the garbage
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till this is done.
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And no TV.
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You won't let me
read a book that I want.
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Mom makes you read a
book that you don't want.
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That's what the elves call
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"Justice of the Unicorn."
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Turns out the first two
chapters were a dream.
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I'm not sure I trust this lady.
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And what do you make of this?
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Every time she cooks
dinner for her father, she cries.
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But it's not always onions.
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Yeah, man, see,
now, my dang ol' father
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he gon' symbolize the past, man
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and ol' dinner gon' be,
like, the future, you know?
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So, you're talkin' 'bout stuck
in the present, you know?
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Just like dang ol'
English class, man.
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I had onions for
dinner last night.
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You can get a
pound for 49 cents.
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"As the ambulance pulled away
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"Cassie remembered
the smell of onions
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from her grandmother's kitchen."
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The End.
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Joe Jack, you awake?
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I got half a mind
to go to Nova Scotia
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00:14:08,364 --> 00:14:10,799
and kick that
Benedict's ass, honey.
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Boy, that Cassie
reminds me of someone.
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Hey, how big did you
guys picture her ta-tas?
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It said she was slender as
a willow, so... grapefruits?
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Come on, let's go.
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If we stay in the truck too long
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people are going to
think we're making out.
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All right, Kafka, Kafka...
Born 1883, wore glasses
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burdened by father,
loved to sleep in.
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Yes! Peggy, you are ready.
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Now, if I tug my
earlobe like this
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just casually say
that you understood
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what the author
was going for, but...
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Then just trail off like that.
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I told him, "Mister,
you may be on retainer
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"but if you retain your
hand on my thigh like that
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I will bite it off and
bill you for my time."
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Mm-hmm.
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00:15:02,819 --> 00:15:04,788
That is exactly like
the scene at dinner
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where Cassie confronts
the hotel manager, yes?
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Honey, I couldn't get
past Chapter Three.
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That writer was
trying way to hard
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to be Isabel
Allende for my blood.
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Great reference.
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Isabel Allende, Chilean
authoress born 1942.
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My source... the Internet.
335
00:15:21,604 --> 00:15:29,068
So, you say it's both
efficient and clean burning?
336
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Fascinating.
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00:15:30,113 --> 00:15:31,706
Oh, Hank, there you are.
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I was just wondering
if you men had noticed
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the subtle change of
perspective in Book Two
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the way the women have.
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Book... Two.
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Uh, fellas, this is
my wife, Peggy.
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Delighted to meet you.
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Is... is your ear
all right, Mrs. Hill?
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I, uh, understood what
the author was going for.
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Uh... in the book, there.
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So, Mary Ellen, we had
just a marvelous time.
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I cannot wait to see
you at the next meeting.
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I was going to suggest we read
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The Dust Gatherers by
Nobel laureate Mkozi Mputha.
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00:16:11,020 --> 00:16:12,352
Well, actually...
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I'm afraid this is the very
last book club meeting.
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Scheduling nightmare, you know.
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The last meeting?
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No, no!
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00:16:21,764 --> 00:16:22,732
We can't let this die.
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00:16:22,765 --> 00:16:23,876
Why, I could drive everyone.
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00:16:23,900 --> 00:16:25,027
Where does everyone live?
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00:16:25,067 --> 00:16:26,501
I'm sorry, Peggy.
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But I'm so glad you
were able to come
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for the final,
final, last meeting.
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00:16:33,009 --> 00:16:34,409
I can't believe it.
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00:16:34,443 --> 00:16:36,412
What am I going to do
with my weekends now?
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Except watch sports.
365
00:16:39,148 --> 00:16:41,117
Oh, well. Peggy?
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00:16:42,718 --> 00:16:43,686
Hold on, Hank.
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00:16:43,719 --> 00:16:45,688
I need to use their powder room.
368
00:16:45,721 --> 00:16:48,691
Maybe it's the ten cups of
coffee I drank to stay sharp for this.
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00:16:48,724 --> 00:16:49,692
I'll get the truck.
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00:16:49,725 --> 00:16:55,687
Oh... The New Yorker.
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00:16:58,267 --> 00:16:59,758
I guess it's my fault.
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She gave us such a big discount
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00:17:01,537 --> 00:17:03,199
I felt I had to invite her.
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00:17:03,239 --> 00:17:07,370
Who knew she'd
be such a windbag?
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As Cassie said
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while the farmhouse
burned brightly behind her
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"I am an onion."
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Good day to you.
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Surely as I am Clea
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and the Crystal of Gilmarrion
shines upon my brow
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our forces shall rally and
vanquish the Goblin horde.
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00:17:49,819 --> 00:17:51,185
What say ye, Hindbottom?
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00:17:51,220 --> 00:17:55,555
Aye, my fell axe
thirsts for Goblin blood
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to avenge my father Borak
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00:17:58,327 --> 00:18:02,128
my swift brother Rigmar
Talon-beard, my cousin...
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00:18:02,164 --> 00:18:04,429
Dang it, Bobby.
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00:18:04,467 --> 00:18:06,902
No more elves at the table.
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00:18:06,936 --> 00:18:10,464
Your mom isn't
feeling well, and...
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00:18:10,506 --> 00:18:11,872
No, no, I'm fine.
390
00:18:12,908 --> 00:18:14,672
All right, Dale, I am coming!
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Great... time for work.
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00:18:16,812 --> 00:18:19,646
No rest for the windbag.
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00:18:22,018 --> 00:18:22,883
Thank you.
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00:18:22,918 --> 00:18:24,011
Please come again.
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00:18:24,053 --> 00:18:25,885
Oh, I got that one yesterday
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with my last gun.
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00:18:28,758 --> 00:18:30,693
Oh, my God, how
many guns do you need?
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00:18:30,726 --> 00:18:32,422
Thank you, come again.
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00:18:32,461 --> 00:18:34,589
Peggy, would you wipe
the fingerprints off this
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00:18:34,630 --> 00:18:36,690
and wrap it, please?
401
00:18:42,071 --> 00:18:44,973
I've come to take the
local bookseller to lunch.
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00:18:45,007 --> 00:18:45,975
Heh... uh, Peggy?
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00:18:46,008 --> 00:18:48,671
Pull!
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00:18:50,746 --> 00:18:53,841
What the hell...?
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00:18:53,883 --> 00:18:55,044
Peggy?
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00:18:56,352 --> 00:18:57,320
Dad.
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00:18:57,353 --> 00:18:59,413
Well, look who's here.
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00:18:59,455 --> 00:19:01,924
Shopping for my birthday?
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00:19:01,957 --> 00:19:06,895
Get me something
that shoots like this.
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00:19:08,164 --> 00:19:09,132
Die!
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00:19:09,165 --> 00:19:10,531
Excellent grouping, Colonel.
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00:19:10,566 --> 00:19:13,195
Plus, those hollow-points
penetrated Shakespeare
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00:19:13,235 --> 00:19:16,467
all the way into the
so-called "Joyous Comedies."
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00:19:16,505 --> 00:19:18,133
As You Like It?
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00:19:18,174 --> 00:19:19,767
Well, I like it plenty.
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00:19:19,809 --> 00:19:22,210
Dang it, Dale, where is my wife?
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00:19:22,244 --> 00:19:24,713
Mmm, probably on one
of her smoking breaks.
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00:19:24,747 --> 00:19:27,410
I try not to keep her
on too tight of a leash.
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00:19:31,987 --> 00:19:32,955
Peggy?
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00:19:32,988 --> 00:19:34,099
What are you doing down there?
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00:19:34,123 --> 00:19:35,455
Nothing.
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00:19:35,491 --> 00:19:37,255
Seems to be my mission in life.
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00:19:37,293 --> 00:19:40,024
No, your mission
was about books...
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00:19:40,062 --> 00:19:41,860
Elves and onions and such.
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00:19:41,897 --> 00:19:42,990
Look at this.
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00:19:43,032 --> 00:19:45,228
Now, I'm not much in the
Shakespeare department
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00:19:45,267 --> 00:19:47,964
but I still don't think he
deserves to be shot at
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00:19:48,003 --> 00:19:49,733
by those monkeys down there.
429
00:19:49,772 --> 00:19:51,001
And A Tale of Two Cities?
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00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:55,808
I thought that was
your favorite book.
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00:20:00,416 --> 00:20:05,878
And so, a farewell
to A Farewell to Arms.
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00:20:05,921 --> 00:20:08,948
Dale, your services at
Peggy's World of Books
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00:20:08,991 --> 00:20:10,983
are terminated as of now.
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00:20:11,026 --> 00:20:12,358
Get out.
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00:20:12,395 --> 00:20:13,363
You can't do that.
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00:20:13,396 --> 00:20:15,024
I can, and I will.
437
00:20:15,064 --> 00:20:16,555
My name is the
name on the lease.
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00:20:16,599 --> 00:20:18,227
This is Peggy's World.
439
00:20:18,267 --> 00:20:21,431
You just rent space in it.
440
00:20:26,609 --> 00:20:28,100
Here's the key to the Dumpster.
441
00:20:28,144 --> 00:20:30,375
If you don't lock it,
the winos sleep in it.
442
00:20:30,413 --> 00:20:31,642
They are not winos.
443
00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,275
They are my customers,
loyal customers.
444
00:20:34,316 --> 00:20:36,581
I'm looking for the lady
who ran the gun store.
445
00:20:36,619 --> 00:20:37,814
She's out of business.
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00:20:37,853 --> 00:20:40,288
She's been referring
people to Ammo World
447
00:20:40,322 --> 00:20:41,722
or Crazy Jerry's.
448
00:20:41,757 --> 00:20:43,726
I just wanted to know
if the first two chapters
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were really a dream or not.
450
00:20:45,661 --> 00:20:47,459
Yeah, I wondered that myself.
451
00:20:55,137 --> 00:20:57,663
Travis makes an excellent point.
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00:20:57,706 --> 00:21:00,107
Cassie's lighthouse
can symbolize hope
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00:21:00,142 --> 00:21:03,169
but who's to say it
doesn't also symbolize
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00:21:03,212 --> 00:21:04,737
the government's intrusion
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00:21:04,780 --> 00:21:06,749
into the lives of
private citizens
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00:21:06,782 --> 00:21:08,375
as suggested by our friend here
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00:21:08,417 --> 00:21:11,353
who won't give us his name.
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00:21:11,387 --> 00:21:14,789
Cassie's grandpa wouldn't
give her an evil lighthouse.
459
00:21:14,824 --> 00:21:17,123
Very good point, Muskrat.
460
00:21:17,159 --> 00:21:18,127
Any responses?
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00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:19,651
Well, can't we at least agree
462
00:21:19,695 --> 00:21:23,097
that Mary-Elizabeth's baby
was her own lighthouse?
463
00:21:23,132 --> 00:21:25,624
Whoever heard of an
illegitimate lighthouse?
464
00:21:25,668 --> 00:21:28,035
Got-dang it, Ox,
you're confusing realism
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00:21:28,070 --> 00:21:28,969
with symbolism again.
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00:21:29,004 --> 00:21:31,633
I'm about to symbolize
my gun to your head.
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What do you call it,
Peggy? Ambiance.