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[Assistant] Only a girl like Maggie who's slow at guessing what people are thinking isn't scared to befriend you.


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[Assistant] But now, you not only get along well with the witch union, but have also got an admirer, if I'm correct? Are you referring to... Lorgr?


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[Assistant] No, we're just friends, probably because we often train together. Alright then, Tilly interjected.


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[Assistant] Compared to the venture you, I prefer the current you, but...


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[Assistant] Tilly nodded in satisfaction and said, Perhaps in the near future, I'll fight with you on the battlefield together. Oh, any progress on the plan of the aerial knight?


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[Assistant] Roland says he's trying to use a brand new engine on the glider.


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[Assistant] If successful, he might be able to create a new type of plane that doesn't require Wendy's ability, till he's set in excitement.


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[Assistant] However, he has to first create a plane tailored to my need.


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[Assistant] It's probably going to fly even faster and higher than the Devil Beasts.


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[Assistant] His majesty would never allow you to partake in the war in person.


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[Assistant] Ashes sat down on the recliner in the living room, looking attentively at her palm.


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[Assistant] She still remembered the feeling when she had swung the sword at the demon. At that time, she had suddenly entered a new realm.


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[Assistant] Although it was just for a split second, the lingering memory persisted.


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[Assistant] She felt everything, including her vision, thoughts and movements, had temporarily deserted the world around her, except for her magic power.


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[Assistant] The intense magic power seared through her body, making her feel invincible.


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[Assistant] Ashes even had a feeling that her power was speaking to her invitingly, tempting her to go even further.


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[Assistant] Magic power doesn't only affect our physique, but also our character.


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[Assistant] If we plan to use our magic power to achieve something, it would guide us in the desired direction. So what exactly are you fighting for?


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[Assistant] Ashes remembered what Phyllis, the gods punishment witch, had said to her the first time they had marched for the war. Why are you telling me this? Because you're an extraordinary. You were born with incredible potential.


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[Assistant] However, you have to have an achievable goal and a strong will in order to go beyond your limit.


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[Assistant] As far as I know, all the transcendents in the Union upgraded in battles, and those who couldn't successfully become transcendents were all eventually killed by the demons. I hope you won't become one of them.


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[Assistant] Did the Transcendence, as well as the three Chiefs of the Union also face the same decision at one point? Ashes asked herself. She clenched her fist.


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[Assistant] At that moment, she dimly understood what she should do.


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[Assistant] Roland returned to the office and called the headquarters of the administrative office. Please connect me to Barov. Yes, your majesty.


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[Assistant] Immediately, he heard Barov's voice on the other end of the line. Barov asked, How can I help you, Your Majesty? When is the upcoming exam for elementary school? Let me see.


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[Assistant] Based on the schedule, it'll be next week, and there will be roughly 2,650 students sitting the exam. The schedule seemed to fit Roland's plan.


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[Assistant] Roll in thought for a while and instruct at Barrow draft a recruitment proposal for me. I need someone to help with my new project.


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[Assistant] The current Neverwinter was like a giant melting pot where people from all over the country came to receive primary education before being assigned to different posts.


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[Assistant] Experienced production line workers took in new workers and taught them techniques and knowledge.


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[Assistant] As workshops gradually diminished, those personal techniques transformed into public knowledge and further became a part of the system.


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[Assistant] It was thus natural for experienced workers to train newbies.


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[Assistant] Once the newbies became experienced, they were able to take in more trainees, and the industry expanded.


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[Assistant] Neverwinter had currently created a virtuous cycle after years of development.


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[Assistant] When the population of the city reached a certain number and when resources were abundant, people would see the amazing power brought about by the rapid industrialization.


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[Assistant] After hanging up the telephone, Roland took out a stack of paper from a drawer.


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[Assistant] Ever since the night attack at tower station number one, he had been working on a universal strategy.


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[Assistant] Most of the research materials were collected from the dream world.


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[Assistant] Now what he needed to do was to localize his plan based on the situation in Neverwinter.


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[Assistant] Roland quickly went over the stash, stopped at one certain page and said, yes, that's it.


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[Assistant] I have a nunchuck this time. I can play...


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[Assistant] All of the hidden targets, which I already see this one. I'm not sure how hard this is, as I don't play archery very much at all. I'm holding this the wrong way. My Nunchuck has to be in my right hand?


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[Assistant] Have I ever even played archery before? Okay. Aim by moving the Wii Remote and release Z to shoot the arrow.


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[Assistant] Hold up. I-I-I don't think that my Wii Remote is properly operating.


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[Assistant] There's a watermelon. There- AH! There is a watermelon somewhere in the trees. Oh, there it is. I see it. Wait, no I don't. Oh no, I see it.


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[Assistant] Is my depth perception off or I don't understand. Either this is a gigantic watermelon or it's floating in the air.


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[Assistant] Excuse me? Where the fuck is this watermelon? Oh my god, this one looks hard as shit. Apparently there's a melon sitting by this tree.


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[Assistant] Okay, that is a solid object. How the fuck am I supposed to get the arrow to the melon? Oh, there's cake. I already see it. I see it. I see it. It's some cake.


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[Assistant] This must be a good shot because I actually got an instant replay for once. I actually put it close enough to one of the objects to get a replay. Holy shit. What are you?


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[Assistant] I did not mean to do that. Alright, here we go again. Holy shit, this is awful.


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[Assistant] Okay, I know I'm just laughing hysterically a lot, but this is fucking ridiculous. Every time, every shot I make, I have to turn more and more right. In, in real life. To get the bow to go where I needed to go.


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[Assistant] It's like, it's like this bow has alcohol tolerance or something. It's like after the first shot, it needs a little bit more to get to that same level. And then it needs more, and then it needs more. And all of a sudden this bow's a fucking alcoholic. I was right. It needs to be way up.


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[Assistant] I already had a headache before even starting and now I have a super headache.


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[Assistant] That was tight butthole right there that that did not hit.


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[Assistant] Okay. That's bullshit. Why? Why did we even shoot there? Am I even holding down Z?


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[Assistant] I got ten again. We're just gonna change difficulties. Beginner is too hard. We're going to intermediate.


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[Assistant] Why not take a break? Why not lick my butthole? How about that one? Okay, there's a watermelon somewhere.


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[Assistant] Ooh, I did it, I let go when my hole was getting bigger, or my circle was getting bigger. There is a cantaloupe. Somewhere around here.


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[Assistant] And now this one's too long. Sick. Sailed two right over it and then one right below it.


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[Assistant] Woo yeah, everybody cheer, I got a fucking goose egg. Might be the longest time I've played a sport and never gotten a single experience point. These oranges are so out of proportion, it does not help at judging the distance.


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[Assistant] Hey, you know what would be awesome game? If you, instead of giving me these hints that take up half my screen, you fuck off and let me just play the fucking game. Where the fuck is this orange?


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[Assistant] It's a little farther than that though. Apparently it's over here.


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[Assistant] 10 points. Holy shit, I got experience that time though. Okay.


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[Assistant] Now that I know where all the hidden targets are, I'm gonna start over at beginner and actually try it. Like I'm trying my hardest this time to at least hit most of these targets now that-


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[Assistant] You know, how about you fuck off with this tutorial bullshit, and I won't accidentally throw a fucking dud into the god damn fucking grass. Why?


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[Assistant] Yeah, oh, oh, oh, yeah, no, no, no. Don't be on at me, on at the fucking game, my Wii Remote, or whatever. Why do I still need the tutorial? I have 19 experience points now.


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[Assistant] Apparently it's not really fucking far away. I don't know where that orange is. That orange might not exist. I have no fucking proof that that isn't an optical illusion. Cause I can never even get close to it. See, watermelon, you know, you get some instant replays or, or...


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[Assistant] Follow cameras. To see, hey, this watermelon is real, and it's right here, you're a little low. The, the orange on the first level? That, that, it's a fucking deceitful little bitch orange.


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[Assistant] You're fuckin' making up frivolous shit as we go. Frickin' archery.


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[Assistant] So I went too high. Do I remember where I aimed last time? No.


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[Assistant] Will I ever take note of where I aim to remember, hey, this is too high or this is too low or this is too left or this is too right? Absolutely not.


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[Assistant] Jesus man, this cantaloupe's actually pretty hard. At least we know that cantaloupe is real. Even though we've never hit it, we at least get close.


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[Assistant] I'm still incredibly frustrated at that orange on the first fucking level.


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[Assistant] We've gotten close on every single one except that orange. That orange is impossible.


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[Assistant] But at least I got close. Where was this orange? This orange is chillin' on the tennis court.


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[Assistant] It was very close and we got it on the bounce. The watermelon on a bridge. Watermelon on a bridge. Watermelon on a bridge.


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[Assistant] The watermelon that walked the bridge and may or may not get hit with an arrow. I really question this game. How? How far from the cantaloupe can that be? Where are we trying to shoot this? B boss.


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[Assistant] I- I guess I don't understand where to aim that- Okay, that was short. I will agree that that- that seemed to be short.


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[Assistant] I would say so. I wanna get it right in its butthole though. You know, it has that like crease there. I wanna stick it right in there. I can't get more than ten. Get the fuck off my screen with your suggestions.


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[Assistant] And then you don't let me see if I went high, if I went low. You know, that's just fucking fantastic. Give me no hints at all, even though in reality I'd be able to watch the arrow no matter what.


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[Assistant] Apparently I was short on all of them though. It's good to know, I could finally see on my last shot where my arrows are landing. Thank you, game. That's very helpful.


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[Assistant] Okay, I think there's a chance I can actually get two.


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[Assistant] And I didn't even get first place with 10 points that time. I lost. I got second place.


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[Assistant] It's not as good as the other ten points apparently. Alright, I'm done now. This is too hard.


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[Assistant] I paused, giving my hunters a few minutes head start. It would be beyond simple to track them.


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[Assistant] And Renesmee would love to surprise me with the size of her prey. I smiled again. The narrow meadow was very still, very empty. The fluttering snow was thinning above me, almost gone. Alice had seen that it wouldn't stick for many weeks. Usually Edward and I came together on these hunting trips. But Edward was with Carlisle today, planning the trip to Rio, talking behind Jacob's back. I frowned.


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[Assistant] When I returned, I would take Jacob's side. He should come with us. He had as big a stake in this as any of us. His entire life was at stake, just like mine. While my thoughts were lost in the near future, my eyes swept the mountainside routinely, searching for prey, searching for danger. I didn't think about it. The urge was an automatic thing. Or perhaps there was a reason for my scanning.


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[Assistant] The texture a million times smoother than human skin. Even under the clouds, she glistened ever so slightly. If her skin had not given her away, her stillness would have.


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[Assistant] Only vampires and statues could be so perfectly motionless. Her hair was pale, pale blonde, almost silver. This was the gleam that had caught my eye.


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[Assistant] It hung straight as a ruler to a blunt edge at her chin, parted evenly down the center. She was a stranger to me. I was absolutely certain I'd never seen her before, even as a human.


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[Assistant] None of the faces in my muddy memory were the same as this one, but I knew her at once from her dark golden eyes. Irina had decided to come after all. For one moment I stared at her and she stared back. I wondered if she would guess immediately who I was as well. I half raised my hand about to wave, but her lip twisted the tiniest bit, making her face suddenly hostile.


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[Assistant] I heard Renesmee's cry of victory from the forest. Heard Jacob's echoing howl.


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[Assistant] And saw Irina's face jerk reflexively to the sound when it echoed to her a few seconds later. Her gaze cut slightly to the right, and I knew what she was seeing. An enormous russet werewolf, perhaps the very one who had killed her Laurent. How long had she been watching us?


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[Assistant] Long enough to see our affectionate exchange before I was sure. Her face spasmed in pain. Instinctually, I opened my hands in front of me in an apologetic gesture. She turned back to me and her lip curled back over her teeth. Her jaw unlocked as she growled.


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[Assistant] It only took me two seconds to reach them. Mine is bigger, I heard Renesmee insist as I burst through the thick thorn bushes to the small open space where they stood. Jacob's ears flattened as he took in my expression. He crouched forward, baring his teeth. His muzzle was streaked with blood from his kill. His eyes raked the forest. I could hear the growl building in his throat.


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[Assistant] Renesmee was every bit as alert as Jacob. Abandoning the dead stag at her feet, she leaped into my waiting arms, pressing her curious hands against my cheeks.


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[Assistant] That's it, no more. From now on you find your own food.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, uh, uh, this is called the downside. This is an interview show. I always do this too late. This is an interview show. We interview people, but we focus on the negatives. We're tired of hearing how people's lives are going well. There's this illusion that life is good. And, uh, I think it makes people more sad, frankly. You should celebrate the negative, which I view as a positive thing.


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[Assistant] So Comedy Fight Club, it's a roast battle show, uhm, that when I first started stand-up comedy, I'm an actor coming into stand-up comedy. I, you know, I do okay on shows because I can be loud enough in lieu of punchlines.


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[Assistant] What would you start with then? You'd hop on stage, it would take a while.


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[Assistant] Yes, that could help, I'm sure. Uhm, so, you were the Duchess of Comedy.


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[Assistant] And you would do, uh, like two thirds through the show, you'd do like kind of a recap of the show. Okay. I mean it was impressive because you would write this monologue as the show was happening. Yea, and I made fun of it.


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[Assistant] So like, this is new, this is like, I always talk about Rose Battle because I feel like that's how I learned how to write jokes, like in a very kind of, uh, uh, intense way. But it was Caitlyn Rupert and like both her parents were dead, so I was like,


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[Assistant] I was, I was, something about like, you know, her father killed himself not from heroin overdose because she was his daughter. It was, it was, it was a dark battle, but we were terrible. We were both, we were both god-awful. And you bombed so hard when you bombed.


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[Assistant] And again, I'm new into stand up. I really love it. And I really want to do it someday.


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[Assistant] And Maddie just like, Jamarco Suarez, quit comedy, ahahaha, and then moved on.


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[Assistant] What is, is that like, if a murder is like, listen, but I murdered someone the next week, you weren't special, now I feel even worse.


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[Assistant] But I, I can see. Anthony Passareti, again this is early, so I'm like, you know, when you bomb early, you feel very overwhelmed. I still do, but Anthony Passareti, his line was like, uh, he said, Jamarco was on CBS's Blue Bloods because they needed someone to make, uh, what's the actor? Which Wahlberg?


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[Assistant] Donnie Wahlberg. They needed someone to make Donnie Wahlberg look like a good actor.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, you know what? I'm gonna do it from my bath. Fuck it. And I thought it was like a quirky artistic decision. And like the moment we turned on the zoom, everyone's, it wasn't like a, what the fuck are you doing? It was like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, and this was all, all that. And, and I made some joke about Richard Gere, and I think Mike Cannon was like, a great Richard Gere reference from the 1980s, and I was like, I'm the worst comedian. I ran those jokes by you when we were in New Hampshire. Do you remember like,


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[Assistant] Let me ask you, because I feel like you'd have a good perspective. I know many, what do you think about great roast comedians that can't seem to translate it to being good stand up comedians? It's hard. But what's, but like, I always look at them and I'm like, oh, just the way you're tackling this topic.


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[Assistant] Roast, I mean, I kind of stopped doing them. I got better than when I was told to quit my profession in front of people, but I definitely...


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[Assistant] Uh, he, he was like, yeah, I wrote a couple new ones on the way here, we'll see how they do. And I was like, what the fuck?


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[Assistant] You, you didn't run it by ten different people?


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[Assistant] That's why when you first started doing Wild N Out, it was just funny because it was like, touches of comedy, and then you're there like in a full jumpsuit, tracksuit thing.


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[Assistant] Wait, but so you, so what happened with wrestling, we did this tech, we were doing a sketch, uh, we were the founding fathers, I guess?


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[Assistant] I know, well that's, people like me, we always are like, I will never reach the heights of being the star of my high school. Literally, it's always ingrained in you. The musical came out, I was like, oh, I guess I'm playing that lead this year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, uh, welcome to The Downside again. Please, if you like this, check out the Patreon, uh, uh, downside.com, slash, oh my god, no, patreon.com, it's patreon.com, slash downside, you get episodes early, ad free, and you get two bonus Patreon episodes.


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[Assistant] We just have one. You have a podcast and it's only a few months. So I guess my first question is, can I do it?


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[Assistant] But you told me, I mean that was a joke, but you told me, I think I joked to you and you said they have a man reaching out immediately, despite the premise.


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[Assistant] It's hard, it's hard to know. I, I'm going to LA and I've been asking, I've been, I've been doing a lot of trips coming up and I've been like asking people for spots and like,


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[Assistant] It's hard. It's hard. It's humiliating. And you, and sometimes frankly, like some people I'm like, I'm pushing it, I'm pushing it and it worked out and I'm like, they probably don't like me, but I got the spot. I know. Did you have a good time?


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[Assistant] I asked one, I asked to do this guy's show, and it's a cool weekly show, and he basically was like, you know, we just reopened, there's no out of towners, and then, and then I bothered him again, and he was like, I think I can get you on, what date, I was like, this date, he's like, you know, Jamie Kennedy and Brian Callan are stopping by, and I was like, oh, I don't, Brian Callan show, what?


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[Assistant] Very bad accusations against him. It's one of those things where I'm like, oh, do I have to say, do I have to say no? I'm gonna say no to every show. Brian Callan, TJ Miller, uh, uh, you know. Take your spots and run. You take your spots. Yea. And then you see if they want to open for you.


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[Assistant] I have this thought, you know, Seinfeld used to say people were like, are comedians more depressed than regular people? And he was like...


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[Assistant] Stand up is the most predatory place. I'm like, you know what? McDonald's probably is fucking too. You just don't report on this shit because it's not like jazzy to you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, so, I wanna, you know, you grew up in Buffalo.


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[Assistant] Why, why did your parents go there?


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[Assistant] And you went to college there just cause it was- did you want to? Or were you just like-


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[Assistant] And you studied what there? Economics. Economics. Yeaah. So were you, you said you did chorus? Were you doing theater? In high school.


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[Assistant] Who's the cool, what's the cool acapella group to listen to when you're working out?


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[Assistant] He's a, he's a, he's a Jewish man. And then he just like went with that character for the rest of his life. And he still like probably bombs and then goes, hickory dickory dock, this chick was sucking my cock and everyone goes,


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[Assistant] Do you ever worry? I mean, you have a lot of roast battles online.


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[Assistant] My sisters, one of my sisters is not really into western medicine suddenly, and I don't know how to handle it. Because my reaction is like, shut the fuck up.


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[Assistant] You really buy any of them. What do you think they do for you?


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[Assistant] I was like, you know, the Jews control it.


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[Assistant] I'm Jewish for the new listeners. If you don't know I'm Jewish, get the fuck out of here. Uhm, uh, yes, I'm worried my dad takes too many antibiotics where like, you know, there's the thing of you, you create these super germs who can't be defeated. And my dad's part of that. Uhm, so you drank in college.


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[Assistant] And do you think looking back, were you, were you, were you depressed?


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[Assistant] Cause I've only blacked out twice in my life and they were both, this one was the musical theater camp where a man deflated me and I was 15. What? This was a musical theater camp I blacked out and like right before I blacked out I was a guy.


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[Assistant] No, no, he, he blew me as I, as I gently passed out. So that was, it's a story I tell on stage. I've talked about it on this podcast. I never heard of this story. It's just, it's just, I mean it was, I was with like two guys and like we were getting wasted and we had a party. And you were trying to fit in with,


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[Assistant] You were trying to fit in. All these guys were coming out. And this guy, uh, who's still in the business. Again, I was like, I just remember the last two things I remembered was he was like, he was like, I'm straight, but I can make you feel amazing. And I was like, cool. And, and then I remember like,


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[Assistant] And I like, I saw him at an audition like 10 years later. And one of those things where I was like, I don't know if he remembers this. I didn't care.


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[Assistant] But I remember just being like, oh, black and outs, I was so in so much pain the next day. I can't, I just don't, that's not in me. Whatever that is that people, did you enjoy it?


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[Assistant] When you black out, do you remember any of it? Barely.


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[Assistant] You know who's the fucking worst? And you just like, you're like, I hope we're close, and you hope you both share enough shit that you're like,


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[Assistant] Do you ever get scared? I mean, this is my nature, where I'm just like, I wonder if other cars right now are talking that they hate me.


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[Assistant] It's just this, standup is such an insane, there's just so many different personalities.


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[Assistant] It's dark. Yeah, it's pretty fucked up. I'm trying to, you know, I feel like I have more friends now. I always, I, because I didn't, I kind of didn't do the open mic. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You hold onto those friends because it's tough to have friends in this industry.


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[Assistant] And you have to respect- I think the other thing when you're in the same art form is like, you have to respect them to- their abilities to some degree. If you don't think someone's funny, or you don't- even if they're not your cup of tea, but if you don't respect them, I think it's really, really tough.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so okay, so when did you stop? When did you go no more blacking out?


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[Assistant] I dated someone, I mean it depends on how people are with drunk, but I dated someone who like got really drunk and not very long and there was just like, they came to a show.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, but it was, they came to one of, uh, my, my sketch team shows, and like, they were so black, I was like, and they, they were like, kinda like, wanted to like, they wanted to like, have sex, and it was like, early in the relationship, and I was just like,


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[Assistant] Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Am I fucking around with it? I'll always remember in high school, uh, I had a friend and he went to a party and this girl I know who's drank a lot was wasted.


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[Assistant] I'm like, oh, the schools, we're not talking about sex nearly enough because I understand to like a 15 year old being like you can't make out with someone who's drunk.


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[Assistant] Got it. I'll get wasted too. And it's like, and they just made out, there was nothing too untoward as far as, as far as I know. But uh, uh, it's just, I think so much about


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[Assistant] I, uh, I forgot what I was going to say about drinking. But do you not smoke pot?


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[Assistant] And I, I can't wait to go buy some more because I like, I take it before, I like, I can do a show on two milligrams. Me too. I take it before and then I'm like, why am I feeling, oh right, right, right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, I like to get stoned, and especially when I'm dating someone, I think that's really enjoyable. I get to let go, and sometimes I'll be with someone who kinda smokes just a little, and sometimes I'm like,


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, so, well, Andrew Chavon's your boyfriend, no downsides there, no downsides to Andrew. He's cool, nice. He got a new car?


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[Assistant] It was, so once we were going to a casino, and I didn't know Andrew very well, but he had offered to drive, he's a very nice, very nice guy, and, uh, I remember he was like, I'm in the car, I'm waving at you, and I look around, and like, I have to put on my glasses, and I'm like, oh, what's this? And, and then another comic, another comic last minute was like, I need, uh, can we join you?


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[Assistant] Uh, now, now, because this is Downside, uh, you know, we'll talk a bit about Wild'n Out. One thing I think is so funny about Wild'n Out is, uh, Jacob Williams, who's a great comic, and he was on Wild'n Out. He kind of paved the way for white people to be on Wild'n Out.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I just remembered Jacob would perform at LOL sometimes, and we used to have family shows there. And like, the only time I ever saw him get recognized, like as a family show, and a six year old kid in the front, I was like,


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[Assistant] It's a hard following. Is the fanbase, would you say, like, is it, is it, what is it on, what channel?


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[Assistant] It's just funny, I mean imagine her being upset, she's like in her bra, if she knew, she's like, the number of 12 year olds that are fucking like drooling right now over you. Yeah. But, so, is the fan base, is it younger?


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[Assistant] The twenty questions I have. Like did you, did you watch these commercials in the 90s? Was this like a thing?


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[Assistant] So, what downsides about Wild and Out being, let me say real quick, I did do a commercial with Nick Cannon way back in the day. Yea, yea, I remember, yea. It was called, he had a reality show called like, Assistance, or like, it was about, I mean, this is pretty bleak, like trying to, to, uh, a reality show where you try to be an assistant to someone famous. Oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] This was serious. This was like, this was like hustle culture. And so mine was, I worked more with Nick Cannon's body double than Nick Cannon himself. We were at like a mansion.


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[Assistant] When pigs squeal, like it truly sounds like you're boiling them in water. Their squeal is so promoted and it does something in your body that you're like, something is wrong. Like we need to escape. So this is a 60 day old pig. This is a non-union commercial. So the trainer is like kind of like


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[Assistant] What are the downsides to, that you, about working on a show? It's a pretty intense shooting schedule, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, Emily Winter was sexually assaulted, but I'm not gonna make any jokes about that because unlike the guy who assaulted her, I have taste. Yes. And it was just one of these that like, one of these like, brutal, and he's, he's the most soft-spoken man in the world. So when he says something like that, you're like, gee, I mean, it's an amazing joke.


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[Assistant] Do you ever, are there anything where they're like, don't say this about Nick Cannon on the wild style, please?


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[Assistant] Woken up on the pole. Yeaah. They'll be like, you signed up for work? You signed up.


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[Assistant] Was that like, was school canceled that week or that day? I mean, that's, that's very traumatic.


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[Assistant] Horrify. I mean, I don't think I even knew about it and I'm glad that I didn't know about it. Cause I, those small planes.


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[Assistant] You know, my other thought is I'm like, they're not using the best pilots for this one. No, that's open mic pilots. Yes.


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[Assistant] Well, I've reached out to Sarah about being on this show and I, I really hope she still doesn't. Sarah? I disagree with Maddie. Sarah, you could go to- No, no, no, I was- Oh, you were saying- Oh, you liked her. Oh.


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[Assistant] Nothing would be different about the world.


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[Assistant] I listened to the story and it was like, they came to his house and they said they were DEA, uh, and I guess DEA is like, they have a presence in Haiti and the guards are like, okay, DEA going in and then they went in and then they killed him.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then, you know, I remember after he was killed, I remember Sarah Cooper tweeted, she's like, it's so nice just to not think about Haiti anymore.


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[Assistant] Or even more public restrooms.


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[Assistant] I took a couple public P's because of those shows and I was always so scared. I couldn't take a public shit, that is.


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[Assistant] Ugh, it's, it's fucking, I, I had, I was on a date.


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[Assistant] Uh, and we got ramen, and it was like a first date. And after the ramen, I had to shit so fucking bad as we walked back.


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[Assistant] I cannot hide what I need to do right now. If we're going into shops and I'm saying can I please use your bathroom and they're like, no.


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[Assistant] And then I don't know, then I, yesterday I was going up the subway and there's gigantic human shit on the stairs. And you're like, this is what, the whole reaction to like homelessness in New York seems to be, get rid of benches, get rid of bathrooms, and I'm like...


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[Assistant] It's just the worst reaction. They took all these benches away from subway stops.


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[Assistant] And then I saw, and, and I saw there was a home, two homeless people, and they were sleeping on the, like, the built, the, uh, an awning. They had set up camp on top of an awning. And I'm like, New York is not helping homeless people. They somehow got up to this awning. Like, like, like some kind of sign that had enough of a nook.


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[Assistant] When I think they used it because there was like a little bit of a covering and you're like, you're like New York, you need to help homeless people. You're going to get rid of it's the worst.


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[Assistant] It was from an episode with Ashley Rae, where if it was good, it was a nice dark episode, we talk a lot of death. We talk, we almost did, and then we talked about everyone who died in that plane crash today. But uh, but yea, we've had like four episodes that are like dead dead.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, so we were in Vulture, it was very cool, uh, I feel good. It was, you know, it's nice. Nice to get a little bit of recognition. And we were kind of, you know, the other podcasts on the list are people who are doing very well. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Russell had a great sketch, cause I hope we film it, but he had this sketch where this family confronts their father. Like an intervention type thing. That he's posting too much about free birth.


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[Assistant] The funniest line from it was, can I say that? We confronted him on the tweets and he's like, it's not that big. And I'm like, dad, yesterday you tweeted, if Britney isn't free by Labor Day, it's going to be 9-11 part two. I'm serious. It was just a very good, very good writer. Thank you. Maddie, do you have a blessing?


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[Assistant] Well, you know, for some people, it lifts the clouds. And like, when they say that, it makes sense as a metaphor, but then you're like, wait, but what the fuck does that mean though?


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[Assistant] Uh, I think it was just five? Ten? Where are you on? I'm on ten. You're at ten. So you started taking it again?


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[Assistant] And once you're in a relationship for a year, you're gonna have sex two times a year max. Oh, literally.


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[Assistant] That space, I love that space. I've always like, where would I record a special if someone asked me? Better do it by January. And I was like, that space, that's, I like that space a lot.


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[Assistant] It's all over. I was supposed to have an audition at a comic, at a comedy club.


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[Assistant] Two one man show. I uhm, uh, uh, uh, and then yeaah, there was a lawsuit and the club was cancelled.


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[Assistant] Awesome. Uh, well, uh, uh, you know, uhm, some people die in plane crashes, uhm, some people die


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[Assistant] When they start taking Lexapro, thank you for listening to The Downside.


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[Assistant] Right here, I mean, great coaching. I think, you know, like a product, what Rashad was talking about, a lot of hard work, a lot of long hours. You're in there busting your tail five, six hours a day. We've gotten to be so close. She's, she's like another daughter to me. We've traveled all over the world. We've had a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] Hi, once again, so let me now ask you another question that in the series of interview, interesting question in mechanical engineering. So, uh, this question is related to heat flow.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, he will ask you in the interview that what is the heat flow formula? What is the formula for heat flow energy?


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[Assistant] And you know this is what you write. You say sir, heat flow is equal to mc dt. This is what you write.


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[Assistant] And m is the mass and if I multiply these two, this becomes heat capacity. This becomes heat capacity.


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[Assistant] And this DT is temperature change.


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[Assistant] So you can say that the heat flows because of the difference in temperature between two bodies. Suppose the temperature of this pen and my body is different and I hold this pen, then the heat energy is going to flow between the two bodies.


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[Assistant] So the general expression for the heat flow or heat energy flow is MCDT. That is the general formula for heat flow.


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[Assistant] He will ask you, what do you understand by isothermal process? What do you mean by isothermal process?


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[Assistant] We say, sir, this is a reversible process in which temperature remains constant.


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[Assistant] Isothermal process is the reversible process in which temperature remains constant.


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[Assistant] And if temperature remains constant then DT is equal to zero. DT is equal to zero. Now he is going to ask you that if there is an isothermal process in which DT is equal to zero, can you tell me what is then DQ for isothermal process? And you know,


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[Assistant] Majority of you feel like answering that sir for isothermal process, dq is equal to zero.


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[Assistant] As you know this answer is wrong. As you know this is not the right answer. This is wrong answer. But the question is why it is wrong answer.


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[Assistant] Why this is wrong answer? And let me answer now you this question. When I ask you heat flow.


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[Assistant] Heat flow, what is the formula, you need to know that there are two ways by which heat flows.


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[Assistant] There is a sensible and there is a latent heat flow. There is a sensible heating and there is a latent heating. Sensible heating and latent heating.


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[Assistant] Now, sensible heating is that in which temperature changes. When you supply the heat to some body, let us say there is a burner here.


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[Assistant] So when I am heating, you must have kept beaker at home. The moment you supply heat energy to the water, its temperature is going to change. That is called sensible heating. That means, in this particular thing, temperature changes. In this particular thing, temperature does not change. But what changes is the phase. What changes is the phase. What is the meaning of phase?


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[Assistant] Liquid, solid, add, vapor or gas. You know, in this case phase does not change.


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[Assistant] In this particular case, the face changes. Let me give you the example now.


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[Assistant] You'll find that temperature will not now change. Temperature will remain at 100 degree centigrade and what starts is boiling. Boiling is nothing but change of the phase from liquid to vapor. So the boiling has started. So how many ways are there to heat?


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[Assistant] Sensible heating, latent heating. What is sensible heating? Same phase, temperature changes. What is latent heating? Sir, phase changes, temperature remains same. Now, the formula in both these cases are different. How do you calculate the heat interaction in sensible heating? Sir, that is equal to mc dt. That is equal to mc dt. And how do you calculate


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[Assistant] What is L? L is called latent heat of phase change. Latent heat of evaporation, latent heat of condensation, latent heat of sublimation, latent heat of ablimation. So all these are phase changes processes.


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[Assistant] Now our question was for isothermal process. Now when I talk about isothermal process,


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[Assistant] Isothermal process, then in that dT is equal to zero, T remains constant.


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[Assistant] So if you see, if temperature is remaining constant, actually I cannot use this particular formula for isothermal process. Why? Because when the temperature remains constant, when the temperature remains constant, then I cannot use sensible heating formula. This is another way to see this.


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[Assistant] So, if DT is zero, that is in isothermal process, can you tell me what is MC? DQ by DT. And it approaches infinity.


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[Assistant] If you add the heat energy to a body but its temperature does not change,


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[Assistant] If you add heat energy to a body, but its temperature does not change, that means the body has infinite heat capacity. Body has infinite heat capacity, which actually is clear from here. MC is heat capacity. And for infinite heat capacity body, you cannot define what is the value of MC.


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[Assistant] Hence for isothermal processor, C is not defined.


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[Assistant] Isochoric, Cv. Isobaric, Cp. Uh, polytrophic, Cn. But for isothermal, Ct is not defined. So specific heat or heat capacity for isothermal process, Sir is not defined because that is a latent heating, constant temperature heating process. It is not defined for that.


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[Assistant] It must have been a bad dream, Oliver, said Harry, breathless after running through the fields. He had heard all about Oliver's past from his mother. No!


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[Assistant] Rose recovered rapidly and was soon able to go outside again.


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[Assistant] Harry Mailey waited a few days then as his mother had expected. He asked Rose to marry him. And as his mother had warned him, Rose refused.


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[Assistant] Goodbye, my dear. I do so envy you, your champagne. Goodbye. Goodbye.


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[Assistant] I know we're not out of the woods yet, but I facetimed with Wall Street on my iPad this morning and for the first time in a while, it's mild.


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[Assistant] A laughing matter. You know, at my polling place, I saw some pretty serious voting irregularity that I think I should report. Okay, so we're gonna call in right now.


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[Assistant] After I finished filling out my ballot, I took a wrong turn on the way to the restroom and saw poll workers counting the ballots. I saw one actually spit on one of the ballots. I assumed to render it invalid. But then he stuffed it into another poll worker's mouth, both of them moaning in ecstasy. A couple other workers got a glimpse of this and apparently thought, why should those two have all the fun? So they disrobed and jumped in, genitals first. Now,


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[Assistant] You're huffing and puffing, but just to get it straight, so far, it's Poppy's recipe with bacon in the shape of a chimney.


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[Assistant] So where, so where Jamie just added bacon, I'm adding it.


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[Assistant] It's a different experience, isn't it? It's not a salad anymore.


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[Assistant] What do we have here though? We have fried puff. Well, so I am making cheesecake.


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[Assistant] I'm making deep fried ravioli cheesecake.


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[Assistant] Cream cheese, strawberry jam, icing sugar, and cornflour. Bit of lemon zest.


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[Assistant] And a bit of basil and mint. Nice. Into the cheesecake mix. Into a piping bag. And then into the fridge to let it firm up a bit.


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[Assistant] Now for the sauce on top, going for a pesto. Love that. I've left the cheese out, but otherwise, the main components of a pesto are these soaked pine nuts, basil, and mint.


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[Assistant] Well I've rolled it out myself earlier, this footage of that. I'm very nervous this bit.


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[Assistant] Obviously, super airtight, otherwise they're gonna burst and go everywhere.


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[Assistant] Don't look like pasta at all. So we'll go, okay.


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[Assistant] Oh no, the fan. Where's the fan? No, it's here, it's here, it goes there. Where? I don't know, there's fans everywhere.


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[Assistant] In reverse, quite possibly one of the hardest things I've ever done. As a reminder, once you beat normal on swordplay showdown, there's this godforsaken thing called reverse, and I am stuck on cliffs.


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[Assistant] After cliff, so I only have two more levels that are probably going to be even harder. So this is just miserable, but maybe today's the day I can have a lucky day and


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[Assistant] Nah, this is not gonna wor- I might as well- I might as well restart. If my Wii Remote's just gonna turn into a humongous dickhead, what's the point?


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[Assistant] This is why I hate swordplay. It starts decent, right? I'll be fine unless one of these dickheads gets a quick hit on me.


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[Assistant] And then eventually my Wii Remote just forgets that it's a Wii Remote. It forgets what it's doing.


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[Assistant] Dude, dude, dude, dude.


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[Assistant] Guess not! Guess I was holding B and holding it the right direction for no FUCKING REASON! And now my Wii Remote's all fricked up. Again. Up is down, left is white, fucking everything is just STUPID!


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[Assistant] Okay, so, so look at this, look at this. No issues whatsoever, right? We have a clear, a clear line of sight with my Wii Remote and my sensor bar. Everything works fine. Somehow in the intensity of swordplay, my w-


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[Assistant] Of course, this time I frickin' wrecked Theo, but I only have one heart.


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[Assistant] Holy, holy fucking shit, shit, shit. I am calibrating again because I don't want to die. I got a bullshit heart lost from fricking Rachel.


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[Assistant] If I had one more heart, I would have been fine. You know, it's just that stupid one heart loss. It, it, it kills me at the end.


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[Assistant] I frickin' cut through that- that- cut through everyone that time like butter. Until the last guy.


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[Assistant] It's rare that I can get through this without having huge Wii Remote issues and that time I finally did not have huge Wii Remote issues.


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[Assistant] And, you know, we can't, we can't bring it home. We can't frickin' beat it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're, you're full of shit, Naomi. I, I still, I still lost a heart. And I'm about to lose another to James, yep.


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[Assistant] I don't understand how Theo is consistently just DUDUDUH! Well, whereas Rachel is like...


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[Assistant] Lord, please help me. Lord, please help me. Please don't make me do this level again.


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[Assistant] That level took forever. FOREVER. It has been like-


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[Assistant] Three or four videos trying to play Swordplay Showdown that I've been stuck at this level. And I finally beat it.


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[Assistant] Castle at dusk in reverse, and Abby is the first one I'm staring at on this one. And she's the first one to fucking die!


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[Assistant] Alright, well, when I slammed my remote there, it stopped the recording. But essentially, I called Lucia and nobody. And that shouldn't be possible. As you could've probably guessed.


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[Assistant] The frickin' hill of doom there, Jesus! I only have one heart now.


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[Assistant] I disagreed with the first hit. Do you think I agree with the second hit? Do you think I took kindly to that? Do you think I-


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[Assistant] I'm doing it, I'm freaking being extra careful, extra cautious.


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[Assistant] This is so fucking fun, dude. Over the bridge and through the woods to get my ass penetrated we go.


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[Assistant] That was a hope and a dream with one freaking heart left on all three of those. Alright. There's only one freaking more level. And that's it. And that's it. And we're in the volcano. Oh boy. Volcano at midnight in reverse.


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[Assistant] Look at this noise. Look at this noise as I get freaking pelted by it. I can't. Theo.


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[Assistant] All three hearts to fucking nobodies!


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[Assistant] Dude, this is ridiculous. Just ridiculous.


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[Assistant] You know, I wish I was programmed in the game too so I could know exactly the second to swing the second I'm in range. But guess what? I don't have that luxury.


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[Assistant] Let's quit! I love it when I do that one! The me's I'm facing right now are different.


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[Assistant] Wait. I think I went to swordplay, not in reverse.


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[Assistant] Motherfucker. Well, no wonder why I was doing decent.


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[Assistant] It won't let me get through this without losing one heart.


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[Assistant] Here it is again. We got lucky. He swung a little early.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't want to take it out of my wiro. I really don't. I do, but I don't.


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[Assistant] For the next two days. How much I fucking screamed here. DO SOMETHING YOU DUMB FUCKING GREEN FUCKING BAT SHIT FUCKING OLD BITCH!


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[Assistant] Group of legendary warriors! Overwatch, bitch! Push it on the payload!


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[Assistant] I'm Saul. I'm the fastest, the coolest, the uh-


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[Assistant] If you wanna take a head start, that's fine by me.


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[Assistant] I just saw him online. I think the first video I saw was maybe the one giving stuff to the homeless.


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[Assistant] What the hell? That shit is crazy, bro. Really? Yea, it just turned me on to a bunch of stuff like we've been taught incorrectly about diet, nutrition.


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[Assistant] And that despite the fact that far more people have died at the hands of Assad's forces than at those of ISIS.


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[Assistant] Will the new focus result in a truly realistic and committed effort to end the fighting, even if it means sitting down with Assad? That's what we want to talk about today with three people who are following the conflict in Syria very closely. It's my pleasure to welcome Kristen Hellbag.


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[Assistant] She was based in Syria from 2001 to 2009 as a freelance correspondent for various German broadcasters and print media. She continues to report regularly from the Middle East.


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[Assistant] And we're welcoming Fawaz Tello. He is part of Syria's secular opposition movement and one of the founding members of the National Council of the Damascus Declaration. He's been living in exile in Germany since 2012.


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[Assistant] But after four years of war in the face of disintegration across the region, would you say it's time to simply do what it takes to end this fighting even if it means negotiating with Assad?


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[Assistant] Is it time to do whatever it takes? Isn't the risk of allowing this conflict to continue even greater than the risk of sitting down with Assad?


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[Assistant] Help at all, uh, to bridge the gap between the positions here of Fawaz Tello if we say that we need to distinguish between the short term and the long term.


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[Assistant] Is there perhaps a potential for a deal where Assad would stay in power just for a transitional


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[Assistant] The Syrian, uh, revolution civil war in order to stop, uh, the rampage of ISIS across the region. Your own foreign minister, uh, Frank-Walter Steinmeier said this week the only way to end the violence is negotiations for a political solution, even if that makes talks with the Assad regime necessary. Would you agree?


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[Assistant] Took it all back and said no, we're not thinking of negotiating with Assad. Meanwhile, Assad says, uhm, air strikes against ISIS are being coordinated indirectly through Iraq. In other words, the US apparently does see him at least indirectly as a partner in the fight.


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[Assistant] Let's come back to what we saw in that first report regarding the use of chlorine gas. The opposition and international NGOs say that the Assad regime is continuing to use poison gas. Does that disqualify it to be a partner at negotiations in your view?


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[Assistant] From the Syrian National Council because you said it was far too lacking in unity and also, uh, undemocratic.


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[Assistant] How do you want to put this pressure on Assad via military support for the opposition?


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[Assistant] of the Assad regime. Russia now says it's going to sponsor a new round of talks. It's not afraid to talk to the Assad regime. It does so frequently. It's going to bring together the uh, the Assad regime and members of the opposition. Would you expect anything to come out of that initiative?


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[Assistant] A regional solution. You've mentioned a lot of different regional actors. US officials have said, look, we need a political solution to this. We need a solution where Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, all the actors involved in this region are at the table. Could it happen or is it purely utopian?


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[Assistant] If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common.


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[Assistant] The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence.


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[Assistant] Can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family.


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[Assistant] Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unrenumerated toil in their gardens.


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[Assistant] And when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.


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[Assistant] The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly.


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[Assistant] May need a better theory to help them to recover.


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[Assistant] Just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill.


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[Assistant] But when things are normal, a man should be healthy without a tonic, and happy without a theory. It is the simple things that really matter.


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[Assistant] If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be.


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[Assistant] If in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day,


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[Assistant] Then what he needs is not a new philosophy, but a new regimen, a different diet or more exercise or whatnot.


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[Assistant] Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it.


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[Assistant] Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.


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[Assistant] Don't you love me? he asked her, holding her hand. I do, she whispered. But please try to forget me.


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[Assistant] It would ruin your future as a politician if anybody found out about my birth. I could never, never forgive myself.


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[Assistant] Or if I'd been poor and friendless with no hope of riches or success?


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[Assistant] I could, answered Rose, covering her face to hide her tears. But as you are, I can never be more than a friend to you.


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[Assistant] I shall ask you once more, said Harry softly. In a year's time or less, I shall ask you to change your mind. The girl shook her head and smiled sadly. No, it will be useless.


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[Assistant] Harry left the next day, having asked Oliver to write to him secretly with news of his mother and Rose.


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[Assistant] From an upstairs window, Rose watched him leave with tears in her eyes.


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[Assistant] Put away the lesson books and fetch the supper trays, called Miss Miller.


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[Assistant] Four tall girls removed all the books, then went out and returned with trays which were handed round.


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[Assistant] Each child could have a drink of water out of the shared cup and could take a small piece of biscuit.


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[Assistant] Then we all went quietly upstairs to the long crowded bedroom where two children shared every bed. I had to share Miss Miller's, but I was so tired that I fell asleep immediately. In the morning, the ringing of a bell woke me, although it was still dark. I got dressed quickly in the bitter cold of the room and washed when I could. There was only one basin for six girls. When the bell rang again,


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[Assistant] We all went downstairs, two by two, and silently entered the cold, badly lit schoolroom for prayers. As the bell rang a third time to indicate the beginning of lessons,


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[Assistant] But the only food served to us was porridge, which was burnt. It was so disgusting that we could not eat it. So we left the dining room with empty stomachs.


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[Assistant] After breakfast came the one happy moment of the day, when the pupils could play and talk freely.


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[Assistant] We all complain bitterly about the uneatable breakfast.


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[Assistant] Lessons started again at nine o'clock and finished at twelve, when Miss Temple stood up to speak to the whole school.


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[Assistant] Don't touch her. You'll wake her up. Rosalie whispered. Someone sighed. Rosalie, Carlisle murmured. Don't start with me, Carlisle. We let you have your way earlier, but that's all we're allowing.


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[Assistant] It seems like Rosalie and Bella were both talking in plurals now. Like they'd formed a pack of their own. I paced quietly in front of the house. Each pass brought me a little closer.


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[Assistant] The dark windows were like a TV set running in some dull waiting room. It was impossible to keep my eyes off them for long. A few more minutes, a few more passes, and my fur was brushing the side of the porch as I paced. I could see up through the windows, see the top of the walls and the ceiling, the unlit chandelier that hung there.


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[Assistant] I was tall enough that all I would have to do was stretch my neck a little and maybe one paw up on the edge of the porch. I peeked into the big open front room.


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[Assistant] The dripping noise was from the IV plugged into her arm, some fluid that was thick and white, not clear. She choked a little in her uneasy sleep.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay.


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[Assistant] Because Emmet wrenched himself between them before there was time to blink. He held his hands up to Edward. Not tonight, Edward. We've got other things to worry about. Edward turned away from them and he was the Burning Man again. His eyes met mine for one moment and then I dropped back to all fours.


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[Assistant] I ran back into the dark forest, running to join Seth, running away from what was behind me. Worse. Yes. She was worse.


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[Assistant] I hope she will be grateful for this opportunity to improve her character.


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[Assistant] Little girl, read this book. It tells the story of the sudden death of a young girl who was a liar. Read and pray. After Mr. Brocklehurst had given me the book and left, I felt I had to speak. Anger was boiling up inside me.


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[Assistant] I walked up to Mrs. Reid and looked straight into her eyes. I do not deceive people.


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[Assistant] If I told lies, I would say I loved you. But I don't. I hate you.


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[Assistant] I want to be your friend. You don't know what you're saying. You are too excited. Go to your room and lie down.


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[Assistant] I won't lie down. I'm quite calm.


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[Assistant] Send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed. I hate living here. I will indeed send her soon, Mermaid Mrs. Reed, to herself.


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[Assistant] The road we traveled down was hidden from the Austrian side by a wall of dry grass the Italian army had built. It was growing dark. I could see balloons high up in the sky. They were used by the Austrians to watch us.


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[Assistant] I found the man in charge and asked him to show me around. Everything seemed to be ready for that evening's battle.


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[Assistant] I was told that we were to drive the injured soldiers to safety using the road behind the wall of dry grass. It seemed dangerous.


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[Assistant] For surely the Austrians would bomb it like crazy.


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[Assistant] The other drivers and I went to one of the hiding holes to take a rest and wait for the fighting to start.


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[Assistant] I hope we can eat before the fighting begins, Minera said.


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[Assistant] Which soldiers are fighting for the Italians tonight? I asked. Just some common peasants. It's not meant to be a serious battle.


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[Assistant] They want to get the Austrians fighting here so that they can surprise attack them in another place. Do those peasants realize this? No way. They would refuse to fight.


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[Assistant] If everyone refused to fight, there would not be any war.


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[Assistant] If you don't fight, the Italian government will have you shot. It's happened before.


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[Assistant] Well, I think we need to hurry up and win this war.


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[Assistant] Quitting now would not solve the problems between these countries.


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[Assistant] War is terrible, but losing a war is worse.


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[Assistant] So what if we lose? We still get to go home.


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[Assistant] The Austrian would come and take control of everything. You think you could be happy under their leadership?


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[Assistant] They would make your life and your family's life hell on earth.


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[Assistant] You and I really know nothing about fighting. We only drive our ambulances around.


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[Assistant] It's those poor men out there who have to get shot at. They could tell you how bad it is.


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[Assistant] I know how terrible it is, but we don't have any choice.


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[Assistant] Things will only get worse if we don't beat the enemy I said.


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[Assistant] If we stopped fighting, the Austrians would leave us alone.


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[Assistant] They have their own country and their own problems to deal with.


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[Assistant] The only reason we're at war is because the people in our government want us to fight.


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[Assistant] They benefit from the war somehow, said Pasini, another driver. They become richer. The common people get nothing but a bullet.


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[Assistant] They are not intelligent enough to have a real purpose.


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[Assistant] I know it's useless to say this now, tenant," Pasini said. We'll stop. I got up and went to see about our dinner.


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[Assistant] The shyest driver among us, Gordini, followed me out the door.


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[Assistant] It was totally dark now except for the searchlights. We were shining up into the mountains.


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[Assistant] Ordini and I walked over to the medical tent and entered. There, I found the Major talking on a telephone.


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[Assistant] His assistant informed me that the fighting would begin immediately.


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[Assistant] I listened carefully to the last few seconds of silence before the firing would begin. As soon as the major hung up the phone, the guns behind our tent began to shoot.


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[Assistant] A bomb then fell nearby, followed by several others.


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[Assistant] The major gave us some noodles and cheese and said, It's a bad idea to go outside now. You'd better just stay here.


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[Assistant] But we insisted that the other drivers needed food.


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[Assistant] As soon as we left a bomb fell near us. A few seconds later another one came and dirt went flying everywhere. We had to lay on the ground until the air cleared.


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[Assistant] And then we ran to the hole where the other drivers were waiting.


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[Assistant] Just outside of our hole a bomb exploded. The ground shook under our feet. Then more explosions soon followed.


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[Assistant] Those boys sure have big guns, don't they? Yeaah. And here we are hiding in this little hole.


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[Assistant] Just then a bright light came between us and threw me off my feet. I thought for sure I was dead, but then I felt myself breathing again.


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[Assistant] I opened my eyes and saw that the area where we had been standing was now completely destroyed. Nearby someone was screaming.


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[Assistant] I turned to see who it was and found that it was Pasini. One of his legs was missing and the other looked like chopped meat.


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[Assistant] I started to attempt to pull myself free from the dirt and wood that had fallen on top of me. I managed to get out, but I found that my legs were almost useless.


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[Assistant] I pulled myself over to Pasini and tried to tear my clothes in order to tie it around his leg to stop the bleeding. However, he soon stopped screaming. When I turned him over toward me, I found that he was dead.


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[Assistant] I then looked down at my legs and saw that my knee was missing. I began to scream. Someone help me!


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[Assistant] And then I felt a pair of hands take hold of me under my arms and pull me up. Then a second pair of hands took hold of my legs.


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[Assistant] I'm not the only one, I said. There are four of us here.


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[Assistant] I could see through the doorway that the doctors were working inside of the dressing station. Their arms and shirts were all bloody. The people who carried the wounded were rushing in and out. Manera asked a doctor to come and look at my legs.


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[Assistant] It prevented you from losing a lot of blood, said the doctor.


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[Assistant] He then wrapped my legs with bandages and told me that I would be sent to the hospital soon.


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[Assistant] Minera then told me that Gordini could not drive because his shoulder hurt too badly. Only he and Guruzzi could drive now.


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[Assistant] Gordini then approached us with a British ambulance driver.


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[Assistant] The Englishman greeted me politely and asked me how I felt.


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[Assistant] I understand that you have four ambulances, but only two drivers now, he said.


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[Assistant] Would it be alright if we took two of your vehicles?


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[Assistant] I promise we'll bring them back to you in Gorica. I know exactly where you live. Sure, why not? I answered.


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[Assistant] Now, let's see about getting you away from here.


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[Assistant] The Englishman then walked over to the dressing station and Gordini gently put his hand on my shoulder. You'll be safe with that fellow, he said.


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[Assistant] Moments later, the British driver returned with two other men and had me carried over to the dressing area.


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[Assistant] I can wait, I said. Let someone else get treatment first. There are so many wounded. Some of them are more serious. Come on, just stop talking.


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[Assistant] They carried me into the dressing station room. It was very smelly and bloody. I saw the major was there too.


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[Assistant] He's the son of a very important American leader. Make sure he's treated right away, said the Englishman. When you finish, let me know. We'll put him into our ambulance and take him with us. Then he went away.


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[Assistant] The doctor finished the wounded man on the table and had me brought over to him.


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[Assistant] I heard him telling another doctor as they worked on me.


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[Assistant] That both of my legs and knees and my right foot were damaged.


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[Assistant] My head was possibly badly hurt as well. The pain was terrible as they cut into my legs.


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[Assistant] If you think this hurts, said the doctor, just wait a little while longer. That's when the real pain will start. Does your head hurt? He asked. Terribly. Your skull is broken. Don't move it anymore.


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[Assistant] He then wrapped my head in a bandage and said, That's it. Long live the French. He's not French, said someone I could not see. They carried me out.


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[Assistant] A minute later, the pain the doctor had warned me about started.


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[Assistant] They put me into the ambulance next to another wounded man. Above me lay a second injured fellow. Soon the British driver climbed into the front seat and we began our journey back to the field hospital.


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[Assistant] Thick red drops of blood fell from his bed down onto my shirt.


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[Assistant] I shouted to the Englishman that the man above me needed help, but he said that he could not stop in the middle of the hill. He went on driving and the blood soon stopped coming. Once we reached the top of the hill, the driver turned around and asked how the man was doing. I told him he was dead.


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[Assistant] Suddenly Oliver recognised the woman he had seen in Fagin's house. It's Nancy, he said without thinking. You see, cried Nancy to the crowd, he knows me.


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[Assistant] Just then, a big man ran out of a beer shop followed by a white dog.


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[Assistant] What's this, young Oliver? Come home to your poor mother, you young devil. And what books are these? You've stolen them, haven't you? Give them to me.


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[Assistant] The man, who was Bill Sykes, seized Oliver with one strong hand and hit him on the head with the other.


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[Assistant] That'll do him good, shouted some of the crowd. Is the only way to treat boys like him.


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[Assistant] One of those truffles which are insignificant to your sex in general, as it is very natural that they should be, but to which we attach some interest.


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[Assistant] I knew you would admire my brother. Did I not tell you so beforehand?


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[Assistant] And my dear, his property. Ah. Immense, my dear. It is important.


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[Assistant] Remember of what importance you are to society. And do not allow yourself to be worried by what is so inconsiderately told you by people who should know better. Really, I'm surprised.


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[Assistant] It would have occurred to most men, Mr. C, that poor dear Fanny being normal, it becomes necessary to provide a witness.


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[Assistant] Chapter 14 That night Catherine slept with me. Sometimes when I opened my eyes she would be gone. But after a while she would return with a little food and we would drink some of my wine together. When I woke up in the morning she was gone again. Eventually, however,


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[Assistant] She came back and announced that the time had come for her to prepare me for the operation.


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[Assistant] I'm sure they won't. More patients will come, you'll see. Let's sleep together again tonight.


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[Assistant] We'll see about that. I'll always want you.


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[Assistant] I promise you or my leg will never be well again. She laughed and said,


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[Assistant] She was right, but I had to say, I'm not lying. You are the first woman I've ever slept with.


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[Assistant] Yes? Why don't you begin by coming over to me now? I held her tightly and kissed her. I love you, Catherine. You are so nice.


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[Assistant] I've found him. Oh, Oliver, you naughty boy to make me suffer so much. Come home immediately, you cruel boy." She burst into tears.


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[Assistant] I've prepared your quarters, ferocious dragon serbots! Man, I'm totally beat!


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[Assistant] I hope it's acceptable. Anything else, Big Boss Bots? Huh?


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[Assistant] Uh, bots, don't grow. Stay in SD form.


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[Assistant] A big dragon who looks like this?! Sorry, pal. Haven't seen him. Alright, thanks anyway!


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[Assistant] Cause those power outages, I mean. How do you know? You did just meet him. Just a feeling I guess.


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[Assistant] He's kinda self-centered and aggressive, but he's not a bad guy at heart, I can tell. I agree. You know,


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[Assistant] Jet Black Dragon who rules over death! Now, the time to awaken!


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[Assistant] I'll finish this fight for you. Listen, that is the plan. But you'll just have to wait a sec. My turn! Draw! Charge and draw!


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[Assistant] When I have four life or less, Bot's power increases by three thousand and becomes twelve thousand!


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[Assistant] As they prepared for sleep in the inn at Bree, darkness lay on Buckland. A mist strayed in the dells and along the riverbank. The house at Cricollo stood silent. Attie Bolger opened the door cautiously and appeared out. A feeling of fear had been growing on him all day, and he was unable to rest or go to bed.


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[Assistant] There was a brooding threat in the breathless night air.


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[Assistant] As he stared out into the gloom, a black shadow moved under the trees.


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[Assistant] There came the soft sound of horses led with stealth along the lane. Outside the gate they stopped.


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[Assistant] And three black figures entered, like shades of night creeping across the ground. One went to the door, one to the corner of the house on either side.


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[Assistant] And there they stood, as still as the shadows of stones while the night went slowly on.


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[Assistant] The house and the quiet trees seem to be waiting breathlessly.


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[Assistant] There was a faint stir in the leads and a cock crowed far away. The cold hour before dawn was passing. The figure by the door moved.


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[Assistant] In the dark, without a moon or stars, a drawn blade gleamed, as if a chill light had been unsheathed. There was a blow, soft but heavy. The door shuddered. Open! In the name of Mordor! Said a voice, thin and menacing. At a second blow, the door yielded and fell back.


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[Assistant] Fatty Bolger had not been idle. As soon as he saw the dark shapes creep from the garden, he knew that he must run for it, or perish. And run he did.


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[Assistant] All about Crick Hollow there was the sound of horns blown, and voices crying and feet running. But the Black Riders rode like a gale to the North Gate.


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[Assistant] Let the little people blow. Sauron will deal with them later. Meanwhile they had another errand.


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[Assistant] In the early night Frodo woke from deep sleep, suddenly as if some sound or presence had disturbed him. He saw that Strider was sitting alert in his chair.


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[Assistant] His eyes gleamed in the light of the fire, which had been tended and was burning brightly, but he made no sign of movement.


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[Assistant] Frodo soon went to sleep again, but his dreams were again troubled with the noise of wind and the galloping hordes.


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[Assistant] The wind seemed to be curling round the house and shaking it. Far off he heard a horn blowing wildly.


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[Assistant] He opened his eyes and heard a cock crowing lustily in the inn yard.


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[Assistant] Strider had drawn the curtains and pushed back the shutters with a clang.


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[Assistant] The first grey light of day was in the room, and a cold air was coming through the open window. As soon as Strider had roused them all, he led the way to their bedrooms. When they saw them, they were glad that they had taken his advice. The windows had been forced open and were swinging, and the curtains were flapping.


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[Assistant] Never has such a thing happened in my time! He cried, raising his hands in horror.


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[Assistant] But for the present you may be left in peace when you have got rid of us.


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[Assistant] We will leave at once. Never mind about breakfast. A drink and a bite standing will have to do. We shall be packed in a few minutes.


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[Assistant] Mr. Butterbur hurried off to see that their ponies were got ready and to fetch them a bite. But very soon he came back in dismay. The ponies had vanished.


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[Assistant] How could they hope to reach Rivendell on foot, pursued by mounted enemies? They might as well set out for the moon. Strider sat silent for a while, looking at the hobbits, as if he was weighing up their strength and courage.


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[Assistant] Pony should not help us to escape horsemen, he said at last, thoughtfully, as if he guessed what Frodo had in mind. We should not go much slower on foot. Not on the roads that I mean to take. I was going to walk in any case. It is the food and stores that trouble me.


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[Assistant] We cannot count on getting anything to eat between here and Rivendell. Except what we take with us. We ought to take plenty to spare, for we may be delayed.


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[Assistant] Bob came back with the report that no horse or pony was to be got for love or money in the neighborhood. Except one. Bill Fernie had one that he might possibly sell.


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[Assistant] A poor old half-starved creature he is, said Bob. But he won't part with it for less than thrice its worth, seeing how you're placed not if I know who's Bill Fernie.


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[Assistant] I wonder, said Strider, but I cannot imagine any animal running home to him once it got away.


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[Assistant] I fancy this is only an afterthought of kind Master Fernes. Just a way of increasing his profits from the affair.


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[Assistant] The chief danger is that the poor beast is probably at death's door. But there does not seem to be any choice. What does he want for it? Bill Fernie's price was 12 silver pennies.


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[Assistant] And that was indeed at least three times the pony's value in some parts.


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[Assistant] It proved to be a bony, underfed, and dispirited animal, but it did not look like dying just yet.


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[Assistant] Mr. Butterburr paid for it himself and offered Mary another 18 pence at some compensation for the lost animals.


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[Assistant] He was an honest man, and well off as things were reckoned in Bree.


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[Assistant] It turned out later that only one horse had been actually stolen.


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[Assistant] The others had been driven off or had bolted in terror and were found wandering in different corners of the Breeland.


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[Assistant] Mary's ponies had escaped altogether, and eventually, having a good deal of sense, they made their way to the Down, in search of Fatty Lumpkin.


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[Assistant] So they came under the care of Tom Bombadil for a while, and were well off. But when news of the events at Bree came to Tom's ears,


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[Assistant] He sent them to Mr. Butterbur, who thus got five good beasts at a very fair price. They had to work harder in Bree, but Bob treated them well. So on the whole, they were lucky. They missed a dark and dangerous journey, but they never came to Rivendell.


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[Assistant] But it appeared that he was nobody's friend, and nobody could recollect when he had joined their party.


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[Assistant] After their breakfast, the hobbits had to repack and get together further supplies for the longer journey they were now expecting. It was close on ten o'clock before they at last got off, but that time the whole of Bree was buzzing with excitement.


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[Assistant] Frodo's vanishing trick, the appearance of the black horsemen, the robbing of the stables, and not least the news that Strider the ranger had joined the mysterious hobbits, made such a tale as would last for many uneventful years. Merciful inhabitants of Bree and Stadel, and many even from Combe and Archet, were crowded in the road to see the travelers start.


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[Assistant] The other guests in the inn were at the doors or hanging out of the windows.


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[Assistant] Shrider had changed his mind, and he decided to leave Bree by the main road. Any attempt to set off a cross country at once would only make matters worse. Half the inhabitants would follow them to see what they were up to, and to prevent them from trespassing.


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[Assistant] They said farewell to Nob and Bob, and took leave of Mr. Butterbur with many thanks.


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[Assistant] He walked in front with Frodo. Next came Merry and Pippin, and last came Sam, leading the pony which was laden with as much of their baggage as they had hard to give it.


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[Assistant] The hobbits took no notice of the inquisitive heads that peeped out of doors or popped over walls and fences as they passed. But as they drew near to the further gate,


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[Assistant] Frodo saw a dark, ill-kept house behind a thick hedge. The last house in the village.


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[Assistant] In one of the windows he caught a glimpse of a sallow face with sly, slanting eyes, but it vanished at once.


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[Assistant] Over the hedge, another man was staring boldly. He had heavy black brows and dark scornful eyes. His large mouth curled in a sneer. He was smoking a short black pipe. As they approached, he took it out of his mouth and spat.


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[Assistant] Put your ugly face outside or it will get hurt.


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[Assistant] The escort of children and stragglers that had followed them got tired and turned back at the south gate.


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[Assistant] Passing through, they kept on along the road for some miles. It bent to the left, curving back into its eastward lines as it rounded the feet of Bree Hill, and then it began to run swiftly downwards into wooden country.


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[Assistant] Down in a deep hollow away, north of the road, there were wisps of rising smoke that showed where comb lay. Archit was hidden in the trees beyond.


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[Assistant] After the road had run down some way and had left Bree Hill, standing tall and brown behind, they came to a narrow track that led off towards the north. This is where we leave the open and take to cover, said Strider. Not a shortcut, I hope, said Pippin. Our last shortcut through woods nearly ended in disaster. Haha, but you've not got me with you then, laughed Strider. My cut's short or long. Don't go wrong. He took a look up and down the road.


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[Assistant] No one was in sight. And he led the way quickly down towards the wooded valley.


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[Assistant] And then to steer as straight as he could over the wild lands to Weathertop Hill.


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[Assistant] Which further on bent southwards to avoid the mid-water marshes.


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[Assistant] Indeed, if it had not been for the disturbing events of the night before, they would have enjoyed this part of the journey better than any up to that time. The sun was shining clear, but not too hot. The woods in the valley were still leafy and full of color, and seemed peaceful and wholesome.


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[Assistant] Strider guided them confidently among the many crossing paths. Although left to themselves, they would soon have been at loss.


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[Assistant] He knows the land round here well enough, but he knows that he is not a match for me in the wood. It is what he may tell others that I am afraid of. I don't suppose they are far away. If they think we have made for Archit, so much the better.


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[Assistant] Neither two-footed, except birds, nor four-footed, except one fox and a few squirrels. The next day they began to steer a steady course eastwards. And still, all was quiet and peaceful. On the third day, out from Bree, they came out of the Chetwood.


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[Assistant] The land had been falling steadily ever since they turned aside from the road and they now enter the wide flat expanse of country. Much more difficult to manage.


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[Assistant] They were far beyond the borders of the Bree Land, out in the pathless wilderness, and roaring near to the midgewater marshes. The ground now became damp, and in places boggy, and there and there,


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[Assistant] They came upon pools and wide stretches of reeds and rushes filled with the warbling of little hidden birds.


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[Assistant] They had to pick their way carefully to keep both dry-footed and on their proper course. At first they made fair progress, but as they went on, their passage became slower and more dangerous.


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[Assistant] They spent a miserable day in this lonely and unpleasant country. Their camping place was damp, cold and uncomfortable and the biting insects would not let them sleep.


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[Assistant] There were also abominable creatures haunting the reeds in tussocks, that from the sound of them were evil relatives of the cricket. There were thousands of them, and they squeaked all around.


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[Assistant] Increasingly old the night until the hobbits were nearly frantic. The next day, the fourth, was little better and the night almost as comfortless.


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[Assistant] It seemed to him that far away there came a light in the eastern sky. It flashed and faded many times. It was not the dawn, for that was still some hours off.


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[Assistant] He said to Strider, who had risen and standing, gazing ahead into the night,


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[Assistant] I do not know. It is too distant to make out. It is like lightning that leaps up from the hilltops.


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[Assistant] Crota lay down again, but for a long while he could still see the white flashes, and against them the tall dark figure of Strider, standing silent and watchful. At last he passed into an uneasy sleep.


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[Assistant] They had not gone far from the fifth day when they left the last straggling pools and reed beds of the marshes behind them. The land before them began steadily to rise again.