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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym

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I don’t know about you, but my brain is short-circuiting a bit from the news today, so I was glad to run across this video of Benedict Cumberbatch reading Ross Beeley’s letter published by McSweeney’s in 2011 called An Open Letter to the Gentleman Blow-Drying His Balls in the Gym Locker Room. You’re actually doing it. I mean, we’ve all dreamed of blow-drying our balls out in the open, but you’re actually doing it in front of me and at least sixt…

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Benedict Cumberbatch Reads a Letter to a Man Blow-Drying His Balls at the Gym

We have featured Benedict Cumberbatch reading letters by Kurt Vonnegut, Alan Turing, Albert Camus, and Nick Cave, along with passages from Kafka's Metamorphosis and Melville's Moby Dick. It's all pretty heady stuff. And now it's time for something completely different. Above, we have Mr. Open Culture, openculture.com

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