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From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut, this is

obscure the podcast in which I read Jude the Obscure Outlast. the

obscure out loud and comment on it as I go. I am your host

Michael Ian Black. I am your friend. I am your reader, I am your Mansplainer in chief of Jude the obscure.

And the reason that I am a Mansplainer is because,

as I have often described myself on this podcast and in other. explain a lot of this book that I just kind of say I understand and will expound on at great length about things

that I know about which I know nothing.

And that is that is mansplaining at its core. So that's what I'm doing. I'm mansplaining Thomas Hardy to you.

But finding things along the way, little nuggets that we can all pick up and put in our pockets and take with us on our journeys.

Wherever our journeys may take us, Jude Fowley's journey has taken him of course to Christminster

where he has been laboring, literally laboring, to make a life

for himself as a stonemason and metaphorically laboring to achieve his grander goal, which is to get an education,

to achieve something which has escaped even his hero, Mr. Philitson.

He wants to rise above, rise above the humbleness,

the obscurity of his birth and of his circumstances.

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