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Cian McCarthy :: @arealmofwonder

Beginning the day with some P. G. Wodehouse is always a capital idea.

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Money and nothing

In P.G.Wodehouse’s The Girl in Blue, nothing happens very elegantly and everything turns out for the best. New post.

The Girl In Blue is late Wodehouse, published in 1970, but in truth the world it inhabits could have been constructed at any time in the previous 40 years. The post war world breaks in from time to time: the strength of a large American woman is attributed to all the time such women spend on demonstrations, for example; the love interest is an air “hostess”, as they were then called. At the…

Money and nothing

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Lord Ickenham comes to Blandings (under his own name this time) and proceeds to unravel the various knotty problems of the dwellers there. A true masterpiece by Wodehouse.

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"Daar komt de bruid!" van Joe Keenan

Mijn volgende boek is “Daar komt de bruid!” van de Amerikaan Joe Keenan. Op de kaft wordt het aangekondigd als een “uitermate komisch debuut” en ik hoop dat dit waar is, want daar ben ik echt aan toe! Continue reading “Daar komt de bruid!” van Joe Keenan

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“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.” ― P.G. Wodehouse , The Best of Wodehouse: An Anthology

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Movie Reviews for Writers: Wodehouse in Exile

Do you know know the story of P.G. Wodehouse and how he was manipulated by the Nazis during WWII? In a nutshell, he was rounded up into an internment camp, and while there wrote comical pieces to help keep up the spirits of his fellow internees. He was then used by the enemy to read these pieces over the radio to "convince" the U.S. to stay out of the war, not his intention for these works. That didn't stop him from being accused of treason by Great Britain. At least according to this movie.

Politics of this wonderful BBC production aside, it's also a great look into the mind of Wodehouse and the way he saw the world.

One of the early moments of the film has Plum (Wodehouse) and Bunny (his wife) sitting in their drawing room while their yard is suddenly invaded by Nazi soldiers. "I wonder what will happen next," asks Bunny. Plum responds with a list of bullet points from his latest Jeeves and Wooster novel. Bunny responds, "I mean about the war."

Even in the midst of war and Nazi occupation, Plum is thinking about his work, about the stories in his head. But his focus doesn't just end there. While in the internment camp, he still manages to find his writer's voice. While penning his comical pieces, he states, "The great advantage here is that the authorities leave us alone most of the day, and I have time to write."

Read more:

https://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/2021/08/movie-reviews-for-writers-wodehouse-in.html

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What Ho!

I’m setting up a community on Dreamwidth for historical sex slang, sex history, general history for 1910-1930, including homosexuality and society. Plus World War 1 and essays and articles about P.G.Wodehouse. I have a lot of this stuff to hand so I want to have it in one place.

If anyone wants something that’s not listed here, please comment. And if you can suggest a suitably Wodehousian name I will be in your debt forever.

Bertie tries in vain to find an 18th century word for “erection” so he can impress Jeeves during their next bout of sexual congress.

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