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Gax: Well, hello there, dog. Who do you belong to?
Small dog: Yipe!
Gax: I can’t pet you right now. I’m on my way to book club.
Small dog: Yipe! Yipe!

Large woman (Maureen): He is mine, Gax, as is the book club. Which you are hereby expelled from.
Gax: Maureen? Why?
Maureen: You know why. We have conversations in confidence. Book club demands a certain trust, and you have broken that trust time and again.

Gax: It’s book club! I want to talk about Khaled Hosseini’s use of metaphor! Where else can I do that? Nobody else is that boring!
Maureen: Gilda said that after she told us about the trouble she’s been having with her mother, you impersonated her and told her mother to “go suck a cluster bomb.”

Gax: Well, somebody had to!
Maureen: Then you transformed her into a shrieking reaper! Half the nursing home had heart attacks!
Gax: In Gaxian culture the reaper is good luck!
Maureen: You can’t just keep saying that about every shrieking horror you transform into!

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#824; Mean, Scary Gax, Part 8 (of 9) transcribed by in

Gax: Well, hello there, dog. Who do you belong to?
Small dog: Yipe!
Gax: I can't pet you right now. I'm on my way to book club.
Small dog: Yipe! Yipe!

Large woman (Maureen): He is mine, Gax, as is the book club. Which you are hereby expelled from.
Gax: Maureen? Why?
Maureen: You know why. We have conversations in confidence. Book club demands a certain trust, and you have broken that trust time and again.

Gax: It's book club! I want to talk about Khaled Hosseini's use of metaphor! Where else can I do that? Nobody else is that boring!
Maureen: Gilda said that after she told us about the trouble she's been having with her mother, you impersonated her and told her mother to "go suck a cluster bomb."

Gax: Well, somebody had to!
Maureen: Then you transformed her into a shrieking reaper! Half the nursing home had heart attacks!
Gax: In Gaxian culture the reaper is good luck!
Maureen: You can't just keep saying that about every shrieking horror you transform into!

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Gax cannot leave something necessary undone.

#824; Mean, Scary Gax, Part 8 (of 9)

  — April 6th, 2012

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