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From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Sultry, Savannah. This is obscure season four in American tragedy. I am your host, your friend, your ear lover, and literary, mansplainer

in chief, and I'm under blankets.

You know, the 12 months out of 12 here in Savannah, really more like 14 months out of 12.

It's too hot.

And you get a brief respite, really, from like, I mean, look, it's not 14 out of 12.

It's not even 12 out of 12. It's like, I don't know, five or six out of 12. It's not even 12 out of 12.

It's like, I don't know, five or six out of 12.

It's just too hot.

And it was hot all the way through October this year and into November.

And now finally, it seems like it's cooled off a little bit.

And so I'm in the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library with a proper blanket on my legs, which is my preferred way of lying supine on the Jack Jack

Memorial Reading Throne. And so I've got the blanket on. I've got a hoodie on. And I'm just

delighting in the autumnal weather.

And when I say autumnal, I mean, it was like 70 today.

Probably not really worthy of a blanket.

But, you know, I live in an old drafty house and sometimes it gets chilly in here.

Even when it's only 70 degrees.

So I got the blanket on.

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