KaggaBot"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)
morganthAs I re-read “Leave it to Psmith”, I’m realizing for the first time that The Efficient Baxter is basically Malvolio from “Twelfth Night”. Wodehouse has to have done that on purpose, right? He was well-educated, he would have known one of the great comedic put-upon characters of Shakespeare.
Latest addition to my library, and absolutely the finest part of it: A complete, 99-volume collection of the Everyman Wodehouse. This is the best edition of Wodehouse ever printed, and I now have all of it. Collectively it’s essentially everything he ever wrote for publication.
It looks like whoever owned them before me must have bought them for resale and never read them, because they all look mint condition. I will not be making that mistake.
Donald Roy@gutenberg_org Worth recalling also the figure of #roderickspode - loosely based on #oswaldmosley - who he - #wodehouse - skewered in #thecodeofthewoosters .
Calico JesseI’m embarrassed to say, that while reading my Wodehouse novel I had to look up the reference made to Pierpont Morgan.
Apparently it’s John Pierpont Morgan, American rich person.
Now that I think of it, I have heard of JP Morgan, I think I owe his descendants money.
UnformedWorldsThis morning , my spouse pulled out a dark blue handkerchief, entirely new to me. “Where did you get a dark blue handkerchief?” He immediately replied, “The Anti-Jeeves Society.”
Fair.
#Wodehouse #Jeeves
Deborah Makarios"As the fellow said, better a dinner of herbs when you're all buddies together than a regular blowout when you're not"
Proverbs 15:17, Wodehouse version
(The Code of the Woosters)
#Proverbs #Bible #Wodehouse #BertieWooster
Proverbs 15:17, Wodehouse version
(The Code of the Woosters)
#Proverbs #Bible #Wodehouse #BertieWooster