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“So, Jeeves!”
“Yes, sir.”
“What do you mean, Yes, sir?”
“I was endeavouring to convey my appreciation of the fact that your position is in many respects somewhat difficult, sir. But I wonder if I might call your attention to an observation of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He said: ‘Does aught befall you? It is good. It is part of the destiny of the Universe ordained for you from the beginning. All that befalls you is part of the great web.'”
I breathed a bit stertorously.
“He said that, did he?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Well, you can tell him from me he’s an ass.”P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) Anglo-American humorist, playwright and lyricist [Pelham Grenville Wodehouse]
The Mating Season, ch. 4 (1949)More about this quote: wist.info/wodehouse-p-g/46199/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #wodehouse #pgwodehouse #marcusaurelius #jeeves #wooster #acceptance #advice #destiny #fate #foreordainment #nature #stoicism #trouble #universe
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P. G. Wodehouse on nightclubs:
"A sound like the sudden descent of an iron girder on a sheet of tin, followed by a jangling of bells, a wailing of tortured cats, and the noise of a few steam-riveters at work, announced to their trained ears that the music had begun. Sweeping her to him with a violence which, attempted in any other place, would have earned him a sentence of thirty days coupled with some strong remarks from the Bench, Lancelot began to push her yielding form through the sea of humanity till they reached the centre of the whirlpool. There, unable to move in any direction, they surrendered themselves to the ecstasy of the dance, wiping their feet on the polished flooring and occasionally pushing an elbow into some stranger's encroaching rib."
Came the Dawn, from Meet Mr. Mulliner
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I’m 54 books into the year, and this will be my next read of the year
#CurrentlyReading #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #Bibliophile #Booklovers #Bookworm #PGWodehouse #Plum #GalahadAtBlandings #BlandingsCastle #TheMasterOfMirth
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The Inimitable P.G. Wodehouse
BBC Radio 4 Extra special hosted by Alexander Armstrong, 3 hours of pure Plumophilia!
https://archive.org/details/the-inimitable-pg-wodehouse
#PGWodehouse #JeevesAndWooster #BBCRadio #BBCRadio4Extra #AlexanderArmstrong #Psmith
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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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"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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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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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!
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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...