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to be done. There is much work to be done right now on the book club. This month we are reading

Jack London's Call of the Wild, and I am joined

by my friend, a short-legged hairy man. Is that seal? Seal, of course.

Those are sealed boots, seal gloves from the wild, maybe from the Yukon. Michael Malice,

thank you for coming on the book club.

Thank you for having me, and I think it's very important

to refer this book as the call of the wild,

because that is the plot of the book.

It's about a specific thing, that call,

which speaks to both the protagonist

and is an allegory for something that exists inside all of humanity.

For the reader.

Yes.

So, you're right.

You get the call of the wild from the beginning and then it really pays off in the end.

Yes.

For those who maybe haven't made it all the way through the book or who just need a refresher,

can you give a one-minute summary of what happens in this book?

Easily, because a short book, easy to read. The protagonist is a dog named Buck, this gigantic

part St. Bernard, who goes through a series of different masters in the Pacific Northwest.

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