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memorial library this is obscure the podcast in which I read Jude the obscure out loud and comment on it as I go.

My name is Michael Ian Black.

I am your reader, your host, your commenter.

I'm going on this journey with you. See because I've never read

Jude the obscure. This is a whole new thing for me. So here we are with Jude and

he's turning into like this hamlet character.

He can't decide what the hell to do.

Should I go to Christminster?

Should I not go to Christminster?

Christminster looks really cool, but I'm not good enough for Christminster, but maybe I could be good enough, but oh no, I'm just poor

little sad pathetic little Jude.

I don't know nothing about birth and no babies, but he can't let it go and so he's looking at Christminster and then he goes to this barn and he looks at Christminster and Christminster is there twinkling twinkling and goinginkling, twinkling, going,

Jude, Jude, Jude, we need you.

And Jude's like, what, me?

And the town's going, yes, Jude, you, we really need you,

but you've got to learn more before you can come.

And Jude's like, oh, okay.

And so that's where we are.

Okay, to the book.

He had become entirely lost to his bodily situation

during this mental leap, the leap of hearing the bell say we are happy here instead of Kong,

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