From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in Saltree, Savannah, Georgia, this is Obscure

Season 3, Wuthering Heights, I am your host, your friend, your ear, lover, your literary

mansplainer in chief and Georgianologist Michael E. and Black, Southern Gentlemen Esquire, greeting

the new year, and it seems apropos, does it not? It's our 52nd episode, 52 weeks in a year and 2023

is now, upon us, well my new year's was quiet but satisfactory. Didn't do a whole heck of a lot,

haven't done a whole heck of a lot on New Year's Eve since probably my mid-twenties. I am not a

party guy never have been. In fact, the family and I, and I just mean my wife and my son, my daughter

was not at this particular dinner, we were talking about such things over an evening meal in

discussing how for me and my son, and we consider ourselves introverts, when you go out to socialize

and all of that, like it feels like work in a way that work doesn't necessarily feel like work.

It requires a certain amount of concentration which quickly can turn to drudgery after about,

in my case, 60 to 90 minutes. After about 90 minutes, two hours, I'm no good at a party.

Like I mentioned to Martha, I said you probably have never noticed this, but when we have parties,

which we occasionally do, not very often, because I try to avoid them, but when we have people over,

after about an hour and a half, like I will just disappear, I will just go elsewhere.

And close the door and recharge for 15, 20 minutes or so, and I will just do this

throughout the evening. It's the only way I can get through it. I cannot be among too many people

for too long. It's just, it's just a quirk of my personality, and I suspect probably many of you,

as well, my son's the same way. My wife, Martha, on the other hand, she, although she is

loathe to call herself this, is an extrovert. She was confusing extroversion, or introversion,

I should say, with shyness. And of course, they're not the same thing because she was a shy child.

And so never thought of herself as an extrovert, but in fact, she is. She gains energy

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