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🗓️ 31 May 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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0:00.0 | Miss Fit Toys. |
0:02.0 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wild of Connecticut, |
0:07.0 | this is Obscure, the podcast in which I read Jude the Obscure out loud and comment on it as I go. |
0:15.9 | I am your host, your friend, your literary bond vivant, your amateur Victorianologist, your earlobist. Your |
0:25.0 | ear lover, manseplaner in chief Michael Ian Black, it is a delight as always to be with you |
0:32.0 | as we applaudod through Thomas Hardy's Jude the obscure. |
0:36.3 | It is allergy season here. |
0:38.6 | In the wild of Connecticut, |
0:39.7 | you may hear me sniffling and sneezing |
0:41.9 | as we've progressed today, but look, this |
0:44.5 | fucking podcast is free. You can deal with my snot. That's just the way it has to be. |
0:50.4 | If we want to keep on pace, I can't take breaks to be sniffling and snorting and |
0:58.4 | dehistamining, you just have to persevere, that's just the way it's going to be just as Jude and Sue |
1:04.8 | are persevering although their misery I think is more acute than my own because |
1:09.4 | theirs is a misery of the heart whereas mine is just a misery of the heart, whereas mine is just a misery of the ear, nose, and throat variety, mostly of the nose. |
1:20.0 | Also, my skin breaks out in allergy season because I'm always touching my face. |
1:25.0 | So in addition to being besnoted, I am also besetted. |
1:30.0 | So when last we left them they were having this little debate about the nature of their relationship, |
1:34.6 | right? Jude was saying, hey, like, I love you and it would be great if we could do it. |
1:40.7 | And Sue was saying, yeah, you're're great but that's not going to happen. |
1:45.2 | That's essentially what they've been talking about for the last I don't know 300 pages. |
1:51.4 | And he says you have no animal passion in you and you can act upon reason in the matter |
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