from the

Jil Schwartz Memorial Library here 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, your reader, your commenter, your pompous jackass Michael Ian Black and if you've stuck with it so far you've

probably been thinking to yourself okay but, but when are we going to get to the sex? When are we going to get to the sex? And I've been thinking the same thing. Because if you're going to read a book there better be some sex because why else are you

reading the Tumblr I guess took off their porn and I'm not faking any prudery here.

Tumbler was not my go-to site for seeing sexuals.

But I guess Tumblr took off their porn and so a lot of you are thinking, oh, am I going to have to return to Victorian literature?

Yeah, I guess so.

That may be your only option at this point. And if you stuck with us to this point in the book, you may be thinking to yourself, well, maybe finally, finally finally they're getting to the sex because Sue Bridehead

has escaped from the nunnery as it were. She has removed her metaphorical chastity belt and she has gone through a river a raging

river to get to Jude having spent the previous night with him, not in a intimate way, but at a farmer's house.

And we all thought, I certainly thought, oh, this is where the boning comes.

No. So now she's escaped from the

nunnery and she's at Jude's house she's she was soaking wet he compared her to a

mermaid and he and she's like oh God I'm soaking wet and he was like well you can

wear my clothes and so when we left she had just changed into his clothes and she's saying I suppose Jude it is odd that you

should see me like this and all my things hanging there yet what nonsense they are only

a woman's clothes.

But I guess this is a very big deal

that she's sitting there and flop it around in his suit,

you know, probably looking adorbs. That's the word Thomas Hardy used.

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