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Because I haven't been
reading from this book day

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after day yet, my schtick
isn't all here for it.

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Which means I maybe haven't
told you some things

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I should tell you.

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Thank you very much, Hannah.

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I told you I was loud.

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[LAUGHTER]

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As you probably heard
in that excerpt,

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Kelly sometimes calls
the part of the city

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he works in "the zone."

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Which is sort of an
allusion to the exclusion

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zone around Chernobyl
in Pripyat, in Ukraine.

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And the only thing
you really have

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to know for the part
I'm going to read

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is there will be this part where
he wonders how he got to here.

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And he references a fire that
he was involved in when he first

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moved to the city.

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He was scrapping with a
group of other people,

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and there was a fire in a
building they were working in.

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And everyone else
died, and he survived.

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And he also references a
woman that he calls the girl

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with the limp, who's a
woman named Jackie that he's

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romantically involved with.

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Throughout the book he rarely
uses people with proper names,

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he has a thing with naming.

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And he calls people by
these sort of phrasal nouns.

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So that's all you need
to know to hear, like,

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three sentences later.

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Everything else will
be fine, I think.

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Thank you so much.