A jaded student's voice-over gig #1

I was a senior in high school when the modern thought class teacher asked me to record the voice-overs for a slide show about existentialism.  I never took the class, but it involved reading books by Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre and having philosophical discussions.  I don't remember much about the script, but I still remember the lines I read for the first and last slides.  "Modern life..." I read, sounding as weary as I could at 18, "...We live in a world that puzzles us, frustrates us, isolates us."  For the last slide, I read from the script, "And thus, we cry out."  I never saw the finished product.  Looking back, however, it amuses me that the English teacher had heard me on the intercom doing jazz band concert announcements I'd written, such as, "The jazz band will rock the earth tonight, and everyone's invited...Be advised, however, that the administration might ask you to help board up any geological rifts that occur in the auditorium," and thought, "Say, that's just the jaded voice that's needed for this slide show about despair and the futility of existence."