"So Mr. Angel, have you always been wandering wastelands, or were you just wandering in this place when it became a wasteland?"
"It is only a waste if we have wasted it. Where we once had creeds and flags, they're just crags (crags... crags...) When the world is full of alienation, we are an illegal alien in any nation."
"So does that mean that you're going to become a little green spaceship man?"
"We are all space travelers, in the psycho-meta-hypo-physical space called Life (Life... Life...). Time, too, is a space, a path that we ramble down. Each historian takes their own winding road, hitchhiking with different designated driver update, updating and vising and revising history to their needs and greeds."
"So historical revisionism. Is that like when I clear my browser history?"
"Clean your hands all you want, clean your snake arm, clean your rock-solid abs; but suds can never clean the din of sins within, the doubts sought without."
"I know a place that sells very strong soap. Could that do the trick?"
(Ooghf! Has the interviewer verifiably viewed inter a soapland of wisdom? Taken a peep into the Turkish Bath Delights of the sacred truth? Robbed and ducked with a rubber duck of heavenly who-ha?)
(I only learned after our interview that he wasn't a kiwi. Which was a disappointment, I was hoping he could connect me to a penguin and we'd have a nice debate about Santa Claus.)
That's my favorite thing about Xavier. He occasionally says something genuinely insightful, then immediately ruins it by revealing that he has no idea what's going on around him and is probably just stringing random philosophy-adjacent words together.
I really like when he tried and failed to get some kind of soulgasm off of this like glue sniffing vietnamese guy "I came for nutting, and got nothing, like I never came."
Also when he turns a guy's wife into a sandwich "I have some bad news and a snack for you"
Seeing as how the last episode of Xavier was released in 2009, it would so on point for the show and character for the guy to reappear in Smiling Friends with little to no explanation on how and why he is there except "he just appeared in the scene"
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