S3 Episode 62 - Arrivederci
Obscure with Michael Ian Black
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4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
The New World gives way to the Old as your host gears up for his extended sojourn to Italia. Some advice: if you're feeling depressed/anxious, best thing to do is to totally upend your life. Chaos almost surely cures chaos. Right? Also, those jerks over at Wuthering Heights are still on their crap.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library in Saltree, Savannah, Georgia, this is Obscure |
| 0:15.2 | Season 3, weathering heights, I am your host, your friend, your earlover, your literary |
| 0:20.0 | mansplainer in chief and Georgianologist Michael Ian Blackson in Genomenesqua, passport |
| 0:26.8 | in hand, ready to depart the new world for the old. Leaving for Italy, tomorrow afternoon, |
| 0:38.6 | will be there for three months, followed by a three month sojourn in the United Kingdom, |
| 0:46.3 | where two of the three authors of Obscure reside it. Quick word about my deteriorating mental |
| 0:57.5 | health, just another rough week but then a few days ago it kind of lifted and I added half a pill |
| 1:05.7 | to my antidepressant medication and that seems to be helping but my appetite has remained poor, |
| 1:14.2 | my sleep erratic. Last night had a friend over who some of you may know, her name is |
| 1:23.4 | Jen Spira, she and her hubby came on over, hubby Thomas who's an actor, Jen's a writer, |
| 1:31.0 | very funny, if you're looking for a very funny book to read I would recommend hers, |
| 1:41.3 | it's called Big Time, it's very funny and it's being adapted for a movie anyway she came over |
| 1:46.8 | and we ended up talking about weathering heights of all things, she hold that up, she said she read it |
| 1:53.6 | as an adolescent maybe in high school or middle school or something and agreed that it's kind |
| 2:03.2 | of the mental frothings of somebody who has probably never been in love you know, it reads like |
| 2:11.1 | an adolescent idea of love as we've talked about this before is this kind of all consuming white |
| 2:19.3 | hot force that well essentially consumes you and that that has not been my experience with love, |
| 2:31.6 | with lust maybe but not with love other than I mean maybe the like the very like you know |
| 2:41.0 | the adolescent variety of it yeah we kind of agreed like Heathcliff he's just not a real person |
| 2:46.8 | that's the problem with the book the if the book has a central problem which it does it is that |
| 2:52.2 | Heathcliff is unrelatable his motivations are bizarre his actions are crazy he himself seems to |
| 3:02.8 | vacillate wildly between essentially psychosis and some kind of self-conscious reflection on his |
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