#pgwodehouse — Public Fediverse posts
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/28432/ The end of Ask Jeeves reflects Britain’s diminished soft power #AskJeeves #AskCom #BigTech #Britain #Google #HughLaurie #PgWodehouse #StephenFry #uncategorized
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https://www.europesays.com/britain/28405/ The end of Ask Jeeves reflects Britain’s diminished soft power #AskJeeves #AskCom #BigTech #Britain #Google #HughLaurie #PgWodehouse #StephenFry #uncategorized
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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?
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"It is never difficult to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine."
— Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (1935)
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"The laughs, which had started well, faded like a bugle call in a distant wood."
— Carry On, Jeeves (1925)
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"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)
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"He looked like a sheep with a secret sorrow."
— The Code of the Woosters (1938)
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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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Almost all of the Fry & Laurie “Jeeves & Wooster” is available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHxC5fTU2oVbTLQ7WayDiYlnlHPjuOk6Z
The “Tuppy and the Terrier” episode nearly killed me by asphyxiation when it aired on PBS in the ‘90s because I was laughing so hard.
#PGWodehouse #JeevesAndWooster #PBS #BBC #StephenFry #HughLaurie
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I finished The Algebraist. Really liked it. I think some might have felt the ending was anticlimactic, but I enjoyed it. Need to pick up more books from him.
As a quick palette cleanser I’m reading Quick Service by Wodehouse. It could definitely make an interesting little play. Hijinks in a manor house and all that.
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After reading "Minima Moralia" and '"The Age of Diagnosis", I feel the urge to read something lighter.
Paging P.G. Wodehouse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandings_Castle_and_Elsewhere
#Books #MinimaMoralia #TheAgeOfDiagnosis #BlandingsCastle #PGWodehouse
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#FinishedReading #PGWodehouse 's 1915 farce of the unflappably loquacious toff Psmith tangling with New York street gangs. It should be entertaining froth, but it's so, so racist. Read one of his (many) other books instead. #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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What a marvellous writer is PG Wodehouse. There's something just right about this passage, the words dance along.
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What a marvellous writer is PG Wodehouse. There's something just right about this passage, the words dance along.
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I’m reading #DonQuixote by #MiguelDeCervantes at the moment and thoroughly enjoying it. Since overhearing a little of it in an audiobook not long ago, I realized that it was not a dry #book at all. There are glimpses of what later authors, like #PGWodehouse and even #TerryPratchett took from it and also characters like #InspectorClouseau show traits of the deluded hero of the book.
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I'm re-reading The Inimitable Jeeves by PG Wodehouse. This snippet comes as Bertie Wooster has been dragged to a tea-and-bun shop by his pal Bingo, who's in love with the waitress:
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The novel that introduces us to the incomparable Jeeves!
#jeeves #jeevesandwooster #pgwodehouse #wodehouse #thankyoujeeves #newpurchase #midureads #comedy #humor -
P G Wodehouse: “When Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps.” #pgwodehouse #mastodon #mastodonmigration
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Now free for all to read... I'm a fan of the humourist author PG Wodehouse, and have occasionally visited places connected with his life and work. Here are four of them:
Looking for Wodehouse https://www.patreon.com/posts/102494363
#PGWodehouse #Wodehouse #Humour #Fiction #Travel @bookstodon
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New at my Patreon... I'm a fan of the humourist author PG Wodehouse, and have occasionally visited places connected with his life and work. Here are four of them:
Looking for Wodehouse https://www.patreon.com/posts/looking-for-102494363
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A fun bit I just read in The Mating Season by PG Wodehouse...
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From Brideshead to Saltburn: why we can’t get enough of country house stories https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/16/from-brideshead-to-saltburn-why-we-cant-get-enough-of-country-house-stories #Periodandhistoricalfilms #Perioddrama(TV) #DowntonAbbey #PGWodehouse #Saltburn #Fiction #Culture #Books
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PG Wodehouse knew how to deal with wannabe fascists like Trump. In this extract from his 1938 novel The Code of the Woosters, Bertie Wooster tells 'amateur dictator' Roderick Spode some much-needed home truths:
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This is cool - the artificial island next to Docklands Library now has a nesting black swan in residence. I anticipate going "Awwww" at too-cute cygnets soon. Possibly followed by running from an aggrieved parent swan (shades of the PG Wodehouse short story, Jeeves and the Impending Doom!).
#Melbourne #Birds #Swan #PGWodehouse #Wodehouse cc @NarrelleMHarris
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@gutenberg_org the UK series Jeeves & Wooster is such a good view too!
#pgwodehouse #jeevesandwooster #stephenfry #hughlaurie #comedy
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PG Wodehouse invented a number of words which found their way into the Oxford English dictionary, including Crispish, meaning "somewhat crisp", gruntled, meaning contented, the opposite of "disgruntled" and pottiness, an noun form of "potty" meaning slightly bonkers.
On his birthday, 10 things you might not know about PG Wodehouse:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2019/10/15-october-pg-wodehouse.html
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I'm not saying he's wrong but, to paraphrase PG Wodehouse, it is never difficult to distinguish between Friedrich Nietzsche in aphorism mode and a ray of sunshine:
"Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil."
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Interesting to see the dazzling variety of covers of the Jeeves novels in my Kindle library.
What's weird is that they change from time to time as the books' covers get updated in the Kindle store. Imagine the books on your bookshelves at home doing that!
#Wodehouse #PGWodehouse #Jeeves #Kindle #Books cc @bookstodon
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Do we have any other PG Wodehouse fans on @bookstodon? I love his work, it’s so funny and cheeky and joyful all at once, and was the perfect prescription for anyone feeling down during the pandemic.
My favourite book of his is The Code of the Woosters, one of the Jeeves and Wooster series. There’s something marvellous about the intricate, interconnected plot elements - there’s a bundle of things going on at once, including various complicated relationships, jealousy, a compromising notebook, misunderstandings over the accidental ‘theft’ of an umbrella, and the actually planned theft of an ugly silver cow creamer.
On top of that, Wodehouse was unusually political by throwing into this 1938 novel a hilarious character based on the fascist movements of the era: Roderick Spode, a ‘human gorilla’ who leads a group of wannabe fascists called the Black Shorts. It’s great stuff.
In the course of enjoying Wodehouse’s work I’ve met many Wodehouse fans around the world. When I visited Tokyo a few years ago I was delighted to be presented with a copy of The Code of the Woosters in Japanese by Tamaki Morimura (see the photo below), who translates PGW’s books into that language. When it came to public notice that the previous Empress of Japan was a great Wodehouse reader, her translations had a big bump in sales! Much deserved.
#Wodehouse #PGWodehouse #Books #Humour #Humor #Fiction #ComicNovel #Japanese #Jeeves #Wooster #JeevesAndWooster
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Jeeves and Wooster micron sketches
#jeeves #wooster #hughlaurie #stephenfry #pgwodehouse #illustration #drawing #art #blackandwhite