Poe: I want you to all welcome john steinbeck John Steinbeck: you may know me from my unflinching yet sympathetic tales of itinerant farmhands King: uhhhh King: edgar can I talk to you for a sec John Steinbeck: tonight I want to tell a story about werewolves King: oh never mind
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Steinbeck: The change would come soon, just as the orchards of Salinas would give way to the growing megapolis of the city, just as the dried riverbeds that once fed these fertile lands would give way to desert and the workers would move on. They had to move on.
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Steinbeck: A man can’t stay a man forever, he thought to himself, the landlords and the bosses take and take but a man’s only got so much to give. There’s more dignity in being a wolf, he thought, there’s more dignity in it.
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Steinbeck: The man grimaced as if in pain, for, indeed, it was pain that the man felt. It moved through his body, crawling along his tendons like a caravan of displaced laborers leaving the dusty wastes of Oklahoma in hopes of a new life in the sunny orange groves of California
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Steinbeck: Hair began to grow from the bare skin of his back, then hair began to grow on his stomach as well – then hair grew upon his legs. Then he grew hair on his face. Then he grew hair on his arms. King: you know you don’t need to be THAT granular King: I think we get it
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