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

obscure, the podcast in which I read Jude the obscurescure out loud and comment on it as I go.

I am your host Michael Ian Black, accompanied this week by my little shit dog Jack who is sitting at my feet looking

somewhat expectantly at me and somewhat sleepily, which is to say his eyes keep blinking, what seems like kind of uncontrollably.

And now it looks like he's preparing to join me on the reading throne.

Now, when last we left Jude, it was getting hot and it was getting heavy.

He had met a maiden on the banks of a brook and she was throwing pig guts at him and preparing chitlings.

And the attraction of course was immediate because you know how when somebody throws animal awful at you you think to to yourself, well that's the gal or the guy for me. Well, so it was with Jude, the new

stonemason, who, well, newly trained stonemason who has been trying to make his way to Christ

minster and not succeeding to this point but it seems like all his ducks are now in a row

he has studied his grammars. He has learned a trade. He is preparing to make

his move when low he meets Arabella Don and her two fellow maidens, which calls to mine, of course, the weird

sisters in Macbeth, you know the three witches who were also

preparing some kind of disgusting brew. Well these are disgusting pig parts and Jude

has come across them now this is how they

are courting themselves the last thing that she says well he says I must have

known it if I had come this way meaning he must have known that she lived there

in that area, but he says I mostly go straight along the high road.

He rarely turns to where she is, and she says, in her most beguiling voice,

and this is where we left last time, she says,

My father is a pig breeder, and these girls

are helping me wash the innards for black puddings and such like.

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