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🗓️ 15 June 2021
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What does Michael do? Read and comments as he goes. What is he about? Respect for women. We knock Mary Shelley down when things are lousy, we gotta boost her up when things are good. The Big Buddy examines pleasure and pain.
Michael Ian Black reads Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. More pleasure (less pain) at https://www.patreon.com/michaelianblack
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0:00.0 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wilds of Connecticut, this is obscure |
0:09.3 | season two, Frankenstein, I am your host, your friend, your earlover, your literary |
0:15.4 | mansplainer in chief and Georgianologist Michael Ian Black and my goodness, the doings |
0:23.3 | that have been going on in this work of classic literature, the doings, the ups, the downs, |
0:28.5 | the stories within stories, the parables, the tales of intrigue and thrills that we received |
0:35.2 | last time, my goodness, what an astounding story that we just recounted the story of |
0:42.6 | Safey, the poor girl born into slavery in Turkey to a Christian mother, a Muhammadon father |
0:52.8 | who was arrested in France for a plot to oppose, jumped up charges, he was thrown in jail, |
1:00.4 | a generous dude in the French whatever, gen dorm, helped to free him, the father said, |
1:06.7 | what can I do, the guy Felix, we know is like, hey, what about your daughter, she's cute |
1:10.5 | and he's like, sure, take my daughter, and I'm just like going, what does this have |
1:14.0 | to do with the big buddy, the creature, it's a bizarre story and it's the big buddy who's |
1:21.0 | overhearing the entire thing out there in his little shed, while Eve's dropping on |
1:27.2 | these folks who are on Safey, the woman who's recounting this story, that was the end |
1:32.0 | of chapter 6 volume 2, and I look my adrenaline, I'm getting all the flutters just thinking |
1:39.8 | about it, just thinking about the topsy turvy tale that we have seen here, and how much |
1:45.4 | more exciting that stupid story is than the story we've been following for over a hundred |
1:49.3 | pages to this point, the story of this creation of Dr. Frankenstein. |
1:57.6 | So let's get on it, let's continue, chapter 7, let's see where we are, chapter 7 begins. |
2:07.0 | Such was the history of my beloved collagers, and again, now we're talking, this is the |
2:12.0 | big buddy talking, eight feet tall and rising, it impressed me deeply, I learned from the |
2:18.1 | views of social life, which it developed to admire their virtues and to deprecate the |
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