#timber abode

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beautiful gifts from @saint-rouge

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P. G. Wodehouse discussing Jeeves and Wooster (1960s Interview)

An interview with Alistair Cooke.

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Wodehouse? Explain. I want to hear all about it

HOLD ONTO YOUR HORSES

alright so. his parents were v distant due to Middle Class Late Victorian Mores, so he was brought up by his twenty(!) aunts. his older brother was an oxford don, and he wanted to follow in his footsteps, but the family ran out of money, so he ended up working for HSBC, writing on the side. he wrote a ton of musicals/localisations (he wrote the british version of Anything Goes, for example), and wrote a ton of psmith, blandings, and j&w before he was captured by the nazis. and there… he fucked up. they asked him to do a radio broadcast and he was like “lol sure” without thinking about how it would come across to non-axis countries. as a result he was banned from england, his homeland, and so he moved to the US, where he continued to write and adopt pets. he never had children with his wife, and they slept in separate beds, but they absolutely adored each other and they had v happy lives together. fuck i love him

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– R. Todd, 1925

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@abrenathy not a good one

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You wore three different checks in one outfit shut the fuck up