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Obscure with Michael Ian Black

S2 Episode 52 - A Great and Sudden Change

Obscure with Michael Ian Black

Misfit Toys

Books, Comedy, Literature, Audiobooks, Arts, Alternative Comedy

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Poor Elizabeth is dead, and Victor must decide his course of action. Will it be vengeance? Or will it be more emo shoe scuffing and whining?

Michael Ian Black continues to read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. More at https://www.patreon.com/michaelianblack

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0:00.0

From the southern branch of the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Saltree, Savannah,

0:10.7

this is obscure part two Frankenstein.

0:15.2

I am your host, your friend, your your lover, literary mansplainer in chief and Georgianologist

0:20.8

Michael Ian Black, summer continues unabated here in Saltree, Savannah, the sultryness continues

0:30.4

the fainting couches are all arrayed all over the city, everyone is just collapsed on their fainting

0:37.8

couches, fanning themselves, sipping sweet tea and lemonade and mint tulips, the searsucker

0:46.5

suits are in full bloom, the and that's all I know about Savannah Georgia, searsucker suits,

0:52.9

sweet tea, mint tulips and that it's hot, as you can tell I am not yet an expert on my home.

1:01.1

I was traveling this past week in Providence where tropical storm only made landfall just a few

1:09.1

miles to the east, all flights outward canceled and so I had to spend an extra day and a half

1:15.8

in Providence, Rhode Island, it was no great hardship for me but there was nothing to do, I was

1:21.3

just sitting in my hotel and basically the whole time napping and watching TV and RV videos and

1:30.0

contemplating my existence the way we all do, I mean not that everybody contemplates my

1:35.8

existence but everybody contemplates their own existence and lack thereof has proved to be

1:44.2

thematic here in Frankenstein, the creation of existence, the extinguishing of existence and

1:53.1

finally, finally we have had the death of poor Elizabeth, we've been waiting it really from the

2:00.1

very beginning of the book when Victor Frankenstein said she was going to die so we've been

2:07.6

anxiously, breathlessly anticipating that ultimate, well maybe it's the penultimate, we don't

2:15.0

know how many more murders are going to occur but we are nearing the end of the book, the biggest

2:19.8

maybe murder in the book and of course it happened off stage you know Frankenstein was checking his

2:27.5

surroundings, he said hey Liz why didn't she go hang out in the room, I gotta check some

2:31.9

shit out down here on the grounds she goes and immediately is murdered by the big buddy that's

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