#WritersCoffeeClub Sept 6

Yes, I hide Easter Eggs.

“I suppose you have a story to tell about how his family and friends argued, connived, and in the end managed to convince him not to publish [his memoir].”
“A story? No, I don’t think so. Why did you think there might be a story there?”
“I don’t know. It just seemed a plausible possibility.”

#Wodehouse

We have a Friday night treat for you this #BOOKWEEK as Lucy takes the channel live to read you some #Wodehouse! #JeevesAndWooster? Don't mind if I do!
Head on over to https://www.twitch.tv/chilliteracy to give your second screen something nice to do

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Finally I understood that #mastodon is actually a reference to P.G. #Wodehouse:

> On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps…

It's not often that I get a hankering for some pre-war, English upper-class wit and banter. But when I do Wodehouse fills that niche nicely. The Prince and Betty starts a bit slow, but picks up and earns itself 4/5 stars 😁

https://ramblingreaders.org/book/305906/s/the-prince-and-betty

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The first volume of Donald Jack's The Bandy Papers, in its first edition, was highly praised by none other than P.G. #Wodehouse, by the by.

They're playing the Jeeves & Wooster TV series theme in this cafe! A spot of Jazz Age energy. :)

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And here's another fun bit of Wodehouse, from 'The Mating Season':

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‘Still,’ I said, feeling that it was worth trying, ‘it’s part of the great web, what?’

‘Great web?’

‘One of Marcus Aurelius’s cracks. 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.”’

From the brusque manner in which he damned and blasted Marcus Aurelius, I gathered that, just as had happened when Jeeves sprang it on me, the gag had failed to bring balm. I hadn’t had much hope that it would.

I doubt, as a matter of fact, if Marcus Aurelius’s material is ever the stuff to give the troops at a moment when they have just stubbed their toe on the brick of Fate. You want to wait till the agony has abated.

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Just a spot of PG Wodehouse to brighten your Friday (from 'The Code of the Woosters'):

'Right ho,' I said, and started for the door, sauntering at first in a languid sort of way, like a connoisseur a bit bored at having his time wasted.

I say 'at first', because I had only taken a couple of steps when I tripped over the cat, and you can't combine tripping over cats with languid sauntering. Shifting abruptly into high, I shot out of the door like someone wanted by the police making for the car after a smash-and-grab raid.

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Dipping into the Jeeves books again. The words come through like vaudeville patter:

"She fitted into my biggest arm-chair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing arm-chairs tight about the hips that season."

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Each summer for the past few years, I've gone back to some comfort reading/listening where I can kind of just shut off my brain and go with the narratives. I usually do Pride and Prejudice, and maybe add some Aubrey/Maturin and maybe some Sharpe. I'm thinking about doing a Jeeves and Wooster run, and/or Agatha Christie, too.

Which should I start with?

Looking forward to getting to these old faves!

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This is the only photo in my archives that qualifies for #Caturday. At least it is a very large one. Carefully stalked and photographed at the Louisville Zoo. 😁

“Cats, as a class, have never completely got over the snootiness caused by the fact that in ancient Egypt they were worshipped as gods.” #wodehouse

I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare—or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad—who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping. There's no doubt the man's right. It's absolutely that way with me.

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I enjoy (and absorb) many idioms from the writings of P.G. Wodehouse, but I just found myself stymied on the point of using one.

“I’ll be there with my hair in a braid” is meant to convey readiness, gameness, enthusiasm, but as I was typing this in a text, I realized I almost never turn up anywhere *without* my hair in one or more braids, so the expression’s figurative oomph would be quite wasted. 🤔

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"I'm not absolutely certain of my facts, but I rather fancy it's Shakespeare—or, if not, it's some equally brainy lad—who says that it's always just when a chappie is feeling particularly top-hole, and more than usually braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping. There's no doubt the man's right. It's absolutely that way with me." 😆

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#raab #wodehouse

An earlier generation of #Conservative #MP, represented most obviously by Nicholas Soames, grandson to #WinstonChurchill . recognised #Raab for what he was immediately. in 2019 Soames compared him to Roderick Spode in "The Code of the Woosters"! Spode was a comical depiction of #OswaldMosley the leadr of the British fascists.

Soames was rewarded for this and other actions by being thrown out of the #Conservative party by #BorisJohnson!

Interestingly, PG #Wodehouse was the theater reviewer (or whatever) previous to #DorothyParker in the same spot.

I read through a collection of DP's play reviews and there are some gems in there. I've also read some non-#Jeeves Wodehouse and it's pretty boring.

He really hit on something with that invention and did a good job making it work for decades.

A bunch of the early #Wodehouse/#Jeeves stories are about Bertie in NYC interacting with someone caught up in vaudeville.

This weekend I learned this was PG's story himself--as the one caught up. Lived in the NY for decades in theater and obvs writing.

But as far as I can tell, he didn't interact with anyone. There are no Wodehouse/Algonquin Round Table stories or PG/Groucho tales. Any Jeeves parodies by Benchley or Thurber? Nope.

The man is practically a cipher.

I think Aunt Dahlia might be PG Wodehouse’s best creation. Sometimes she *is* too much of a caricature, too much yoiks, tally-ho, mention of the Quorn and Pytchley etc., but what I love about her is the pure thrill she receives from others’ suffering. Her schadenfreude is never sadistic — she doesn’t set out to have others harmed, is not a prankster, like Bobby Wickham or Tuppy Glossop — but is so bucked by “Spink-bottle’s” drunken speech, and other potential harms. #wodehouse

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!

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Post this on my Facebook feed 10 years ago and I still think it's a solid concept.

"Has a strong desire to put together a Buffy the Vampire Slayer game set between the wars in Britain. Operating concept is that Honoroia Glossup becomes the new slayer. Working title in "What Ho, the Apocalypse!""

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