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From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library in the Wilds of Connecticut,

this is obscure, the podcast in which I read Jude the obscure out loud and comment on it as I go. I am your host and reader and friend

Michael Ian Black joined today as is often the case by my shitty little

rat dog Jack Jack who has taken his position beside me on the reading throne, which is a sofa.

And there is a fair amount of love between Jack Jack and myself, so it is appropriate, and even though I hate this little rat dog and want nothing

more than for him to be put down or eaten by a bear, while he is here upon this earth.

I will grant him some of my love as he does for me.

And last time on Jude the Obscure, Jude had finally made it to Christminster, the city

of his dreams, the city of so much attention and focus in the first part of the book,

waylaid of course by the devious Arabella and the evil trap that she created for him with her pussy.

And so now Arabella is gone to Australia.

Jude is free to resume his studies.

He has just arrived in Christminster.

He is wandering the streets, seeing ghosts.

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