Stumbled upon this older post of yours, while checking whether there's still life in the #PGWodehouse wings of the Fedi mansion. I had missed your toot at the time. A delightful project! Hope you haven't abandoned it?
"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."
— Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935)
"The laughs, which had started well, faded like a bugle call in a distant wood."
— Carry On, Jeeves (1925)
"She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season."
— The Mating Season (1949)
"He looked like a sheep with a secret sorrow."
— The Code of the Woosters (1938)
P.G. Wodehouse disproves the theory that if *every* page is a highlight, then the book has *no* highlights.
He didn't care how unimportant a given scene was, in terms of the big plot or themes; why not make it shine anyway?
#books #pgwodehouse #englishliterature #quotes #dialogue #read
I see "claret" mostly in English fiction and thought they were weak-ass watered down red wines. It took #VincentPrice to explain that those California reds I used to enjoy, like #Zinfandels and #Barberas, are indeed clarets, but the North American custom is to refer to the grape and not the classification.
I'm sorry, #EvelynWaugh, #NancyMitford, #AnthonyTrollope, and #PGWodehouse, for believing for scores of years your characters could not handle real alcohol.
I've had a lovely time this evening working on what's turning out to be a novelette or novella. (Projected length: 15k words.)
The plot involves Bertie Wooster and Jeeves accidentally traveling in time and meeting the Buddha. It's fun to write, although creating something that can pass for Wodehouse's style is challenging. The man was a fiendishly clever stylist.
The best part is the research: reading tons of Wodehouse.
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