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    The story describes an encounter between a North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zax who meet on a path in the prairie of Prax. Neither will move out of the other's way, as the North-Going Zax always travels north and the South-Going Zax always travels south. They argue and vow to stand their ground for fifty-nine days or years rather than change direction. Eventually, a new highway is built over the spot where they remain stuck, unable to move forward due to their stubborn refusal to compromise.

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    The story describes an encounter between a North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zax who meet on a path in the prairie of Prax. Neither will move out of the other's way, as the North-Going Zax always travels north and the South-Going Zax always travels south. They argue and vow to stand their ground for fifty-nine days or years rather than change direction. Eventually, a new highway is built over the spot where they remain stuck, unable to move forward due to their stubborn refusal to compromise.

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    The story describes an encounter between a North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zax who meet on a path in the prairie of Prax. Neither will move out of the other's way, as the North-Going Zax always travels north and the South-Going Zax always travels south. They argue and vow to stand their ground for fifty-nine days or years rather than change direction. Eventually, a new highway is built over the spot where they remain stuck, unable to move forward due to their stubborn refusal to compromise.

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    Zax

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    The story describes an encounter between a North-Going Zax and a South-Going Zax who meet on a path in the prairie of Prax. Neither will move out of the other's way, as the North-Going Zax always travels north and the South-Going Zax always travels south. They argue and vow to stand their ground for fifty-nine days or years rather than change direction. Eventually, a new highway is built over the spot where they remain stuck, unable to move forward due to their stubborn refusal to compromise.

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    The Zax

    by Dr. Seuss From The Sneetches and Other Stories

    One day, making tracks In the prairie of Prax, Came a North-Going Zax And a South-Going Zax. And it happened that both of them came to a place Where they bumped. There they stood. Foot to foot. Face to face. Look here, now! the North-Going Zax said, I say! You are blocking my path. You are right in my way. Im a North-Going Zax and I always go north. Get out of my way, now, and let me go forth! Whos in whose way? snapped the South-Going Zax. I always go south, making south-going tracks. So youre in MY way! And I ask you to move And let me go south in my south-going groove. Then the North-Going Zax puffed his chest up with pride. I never, he said, take a step to one side. And Ill prove to you that I wont change my ways If I have to keep standing here fifty-nine days! And Ill prove to YOU, yelled the South-Going Zax, That I can stand here in the prairie of Prax For fifty-nine years! For I live by a rule That I learned as a boy back in South-Going School. Never budge! Thats my rule. Never budge in the least! Not an inch to the west! Not an inch to the east! Ill stay here, not budging! I can and I will If it makes you and me and the whole world stand still! Well Of course the world didnt stand still. The world grew. In a couple of years, the new highway came through And they built it right over those two stubborn Zax And left them there, standing un-budged in their tracks.

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