Well, hello, everyone. Michael Jane Elson here. This is 372 pages. We'll never get back.

Connor Lestoka is with me, which is not a new thing. This is how we usually do it. We go through some bad books and

we're in the middle of one right now. Connor, want you to tell the people, say hello.

Hello, everybody. Say hello to the people, Connor. This is my little friend, Connor.

Muggles would make a very good ventriloquist dummy, right? Just the horrible, bald, extended head and the distended belly and the overalls. Just people would be flocking out of the theater, more so than any normal ventriloquist act would make them flock out. Look at that guy in the front row. You think my belly is distended. Come on, Muggle now. Come on. Be kind, Mr. Muggle.

Boy, you know who I don't like is those Nardels, huh?

They're spinning around. Why are you obsessed with Nardels? Well, they drug away my

grandma. It's not a bid I honestly

I harbored a deep-seated

resentment of Nardles

they drug my grandmother

into the woods

I know I usually start off

and then I go and say

something inappropriate or racist here

but no that's

come on

this guy knows what I'm talking about

he looks like a grubble

huh

whish all right that's our talking about. He looks like a grubble. Ah?

All right.

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