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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you missed in History class, a production

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Speaker 1: of I Heart Radio, Hello and Happy Friday. I'm Holly

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Speaker 1: Frying and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. And we discussed the

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Speaker 1: drama of Thomas Hardy's life this week third did and

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Speaker 1: you told me you have strong feelings about Thomas Hardy. Yeah. So. Um.

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Speaker 1: My entire K through twelve education, from the time we

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Speaker 1: started being assigned homework, I did not do homework. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was a pointless waste of my time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I very really did it. I did have a very

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Speaker 1: long bus ride, and even though I get kind of

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Speaker 1: motion sick in the car, if I sat in the

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Speaker 1: right way on the bus, I could usually get like

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Speaker 1: my math homework done on the bus on the way

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Speaker 1: to school in the morning. So I just didn't I

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Speaker 1: didn't do it. I was in trouble for not doing

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Speaker 1: homework all the time. However, I read every single reading

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Speaker 1: assignment for like English or literature class because I really

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Speaker 1: enjoyed reading. And the one exception to that in my

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Speaker 1: entire you know, elementary, middle and high school career was

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Speaker 1: Test of the Derbervilles, which I started trying to read,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, this is the most boring thing

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Speaker 1: know this is not how literature class happens for a

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Speaker 1: lot of folks, but um, what would happen was we

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Speaker 1: would read the thing, and then we would be given

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Speaker 1: this multiple choice reading comprehension test. And so we were

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Speaker 1: all supposed to read test of the Derberville's. We were

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Speaker 1: all supposed to get in like a small group and

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Speaker 1: discuss it, and then we were going to take this

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Speaker 1: multiple choice tests. And one person in my small group

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Speaker 1: rest of us like, this was so boring. I couldnot,

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Speaker 1: And so she basically told us the whole plot of it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then I took a test that I did so

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Speaker 1: when my teacher gave it back to me with this

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Speaker 1: failing grade on it, she looked at me with this

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Speaker 1: just sorrow on her face and said, Tracy, why did

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Speaker 1: you do that? Uh? And so, yeah, and you've hated

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Speaker 1: Thomas Hardy ever since. Yeah, I just I could not.

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Speaker 1: I could not read it. And so that I was like,

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Speaker 1: am I remembering this right? And so I went to

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Speaker 1: the project Guttenberg, and I opened up Test of the

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Speaker 1: Deerbervilles and I read the first three or four paragraphs

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Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, I can see why tenth

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Speaker 1: grade me was like, no, not here for this. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: We I read a Jude obscure in high school and

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Speaker 1: we my little band of Merriman and I UM made

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Speaker 1: a video of about it as our class project, which

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Speaker 1: was very silly, of course, as one does. UM, and

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Speaker 1: I got to be Arabella and I played it very broadly, UM,

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Speaker 1: But I definitely did not, as I said at the top,

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Speaker 1: have that connection with Hardy, And like I said, now

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Speaker 1: as an adult looking at his work, UM, and I've

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Speaker 1: read more of it since and knowing his life story,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, good lord, this is all embarrassingly autobiographical. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to talk a little bit more about Emma

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Speaker 1: that I loved, But there wasn't really the right place

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Speaker 1: to put it in here that didn't feel wedged in.

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Speaker 1: It went in and came out like six times while

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Speaker 1: I was working on this, is that she she was

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Speaker 1: writing throughout their marriage, like she was still trying to

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Speaker 1: And one of the things that she wrote that I

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Speaker 1: didn't get the original of I got I was reading

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Speaker 1: several papers about her, and one of which quoted several

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Speaker 1: times this particular piece of writing that I love so

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Speaker 1: much because it's an article in a periodical called The

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Speaker 1: Animals Friend that she wrote in and it's like just

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Speaker 1: It's just so charming that she was a cat lady.

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Speaker 1: fascinating doing this research, because every biography you read of

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Speaker 1: Thomas Hardy picks a villain in this this triangle of people,

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Speaker 1: say that she was from a higher class than him,

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Speaker 1: and like others will be like Florence was really the

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Speaker 1: gold digger. She right after that business and everyone knew

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Speaker 1: that she was trying to lure Hardy. And Emma even

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Speaker 1: fascinating to look at at all of those because I

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Speaker 1: we all have foibles and nobody's perfect. But all of

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Speaker 1: the most happy ending of them all. She did. Uh.

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Speaker 1: one biography that said that Florence got rid of Emma's

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Speaker 1: was like, no, Florence actually wrote a letter to a

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Speaker 1: some were killed. It sounded like, and I'm like, what

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Speaker 1: very sad. But yeah, everybody is a villain. Depending on

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Speaker 1: stories that's really important to read multiple different sources because

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Speaker 1: Emma because it's it was really the most fair handed

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Speaker 1: let does be a lesson, don't be anything like these

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Speaker 1: because that's the practice that's needed. But I always just like,

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the thing, right, Like, you studied

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Speaker 1: tenth grade literature class with tests of the Durbervilles worked

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Speaker 1: at all. Oh Tess, Oh, Thomas Harvey and the kiddies

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Speaker 1: this week onto the show. One of the things we

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Speaker 1: talked about was the women's march on Pretoria, South Africa

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Speaker 1: an episode of the show, and discovered one of the

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Speaker 1: things that can be challenging when talking about a topic

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Speaker 1: about something that is uh that far away from where

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Speaker 1: are various books UM about this specific thing and the

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