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From: yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com (Yatin Saraiya,MRE 2D332,4331,2012850997,21273)
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Reply-To: yatin@wildthing.bellcore.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:35:37 GMT

In article 93Jan21115804@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov,  tak@tazboy.jpl.nasa.gov (Tom Kreitzberg) writes:
>In article <AMATHUR.93Jan21120006@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu> amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes:
>
>> I read a lot of PGWs in India. I guess they would be popular in UK and 
>> probably the US. Where else does Wodehouse attract people (I saw a posting 
>> from Sweden) ?
>
>I heard Wodehouse say once that his books were being translated into
>Russian. (Dickens' as well, I think.) The idea the Soviets had was to
>show how the idle aristocracy lived, off the suffering of the working
>poor. I'd be interested to learn how successful this propaganda was....
>
>	Tom
>



I seem to recall that there was some flap over Wodehouse's alleged involvement
in Nazi propaganda during WWII.  Anyone out there have ``further and better particulars"?

-yatin.
From: makarand@gazelle.larc.nasa.gov (Makarand A. Kulkarni)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Masterpiece Theater on PBS
Date: 27 Jan 1993 21:27:54 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
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In article <C1FKpt.G53@unix.amherst.edu>, nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein) writes:
|> Rao Akella (rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu) wrote:
|> : 
|> : In article <Jan24.191908.27594@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU>, kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:
|> : > 
|> : > You mean Captain Biggar, who habitually looks rhinoceri in their eye, while
|> : > strolling through their backyard as it were, and makes them wilt.
|> : 
|> : If you actually mean Capt. Cuthbert Gervase Brabazon-Biggar, then you probably
|> : know the answer to this:
|> : 	Who's bigger?  Mister Biggar or Master Biggar?
|> : Master Biggar, because he's a little Biggar.
|> : 
|> : :-)


There are a lot more who's bigger jokes. Eg. who is bigger, Mr Bigger or Mrs Bigger, Mrs Bigger because she became Bigger. These appear in a book in which Jeeves in on loan to someone else. The book features Captain Biggar and such
other delightful characters as Mrs Spottworth, Rory, Moke. Anyone remember the title? 
The book is set in a house, described as such. "The river is at the bottom of the garden and when it rains the garden is at the bottom of the river."
|> : 
|> : In a similar vein, anyone remember the context of "the Major is a miner and the
|> : minor is a Major?"  I seem to remember it's either Galahad or Fred, Lord
|> : Ickenham, trying to put a fast one over somebody...one of the classics.
|> 
|> And yet people dare to compare trash like "Who promoted Major Major?" to this
|> fine word-origami of the Master...
|> 						- Neil Bernstein
|> 						Struggling Classics Major


The major-miner mix-up appears in Uncle Dynamite when he is trying to convince 
Constable Potter (The Rotter) that he is Major Brabazon-Plank. The ploy does not work because Constable Potter has played cricket with Brabazon-Plank. So Lord Ickenham tells Potter that he (Lord Ickenham) is the elder of the two Brabazon-Plank brothers and is a miner by profession and the minor Brabazon-Plank is a major in the army. He then advises the confused Potter to keep it squarely before his eyes that the major is a miner and the minor is a major.

Uncle Dynamite: One of the best books I have ever read.


Regards to all

Makarand
makarand@puma.larc.nasa.gov
From: v128juxa@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (SCHUYJUANNAH)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Date: 26 Jan 93 22:20:00 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: SUNY@Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <C19wvB.7AH@news2.cis.umn.edu>, rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes...
> 
>In article <1993Jan22.000000.26062@news.nd.edu>, dwalton1@bach.helios.nd.edu (david walton) writes:
>> 
>> As for the series on PBS, while I like the character of Bertie, I'm
>> disappointed by Jeeves (upper lip not stiff enough), Aunt Dahlia
>> (neither large nor loud enough--she hunted with the Pitchley, after
>> all!), Spode (too loud; needs to be more threatening with less
>> shouting), and Gussie (not sufficiently out of it).  Madeline Basset
>> seems about right, as does Bingo Little.  Aunt Agatha I've not yet
>> seen.
> 
>I think Laurie plays Bertie perfectly, but while Fry plays Jeeves reasonably
>well, don't you think he looks a bit too young?  I always pictured Bertie as
>being in his mid- to late-twenties, with Jeeves at least 10 years older.
I agree with that.....it's nice to see Black Adder-actors do other things.

>LOVE the series' theme music, though!  I find myself whistling it at work and
>annoying my office-mates. :-)
The cartoon accompaniments are pretty cool too.
From: brao@pollux.usc.edu (Bapa Rao)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:48:39 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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>I believe The Clicking of Cuthbert is a collection of short stories,
>mainly (if not exclusively) concerned with golf.  

Correct. The Clickeing of Cuthbert is the first story in the collection.
Cuthbert  is 
Cuthbert Banks has a fiancee who is addicted to organizing teas for
visiting Russian novelists (in whose books nothing happens till page
500 when the mujhik decides to commit suicide). Cuthbert himself is
an ace golfer who could take a Russian novelist or leave him alone. 
Cuthbert's prospects grow dimmer as the love of his life is drawn
towards some snot-nosed literary pretender. Cuthbert clicks when
a star Russian guest turns out to be a crazed  fan of Cuthbert Banks
(Cutaboot Banks). 

My first Wodehouse (and still my favorite) is "Psmith in the City". 
Anyone else read it?

Bapa Rao
From: apte@glacier.Stanford.EDU (Pushkar Apte)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Blandings' Funniest
Date: 27 Jan 93 23:09:04 GMT
Organization: Center for Integrated Systems, Stanford University, California
Originator: apte@glacier.Stanford.EDU


Here are my votes for the funniest scenes from Blandings Castle, and
Lord Emsworth.

1. Someone asked the name of the secretary to Lord Emsworth who ended
up being  caught out in the night wearing lemon-colored pajamas - its 
Rupert Baxter.  Personally, I think thats one of the greatest, funniest
scenes ever.  Rupert Baxter being of the practical mind is unable to 
soothe his soul on the wonderful offerings of nature, the gently 
fragrant flowers, the pale moonlight, and all that sort of rot, you
know.  Ergo, he ends up flinging flowerpots through Clarence Emsworth's 
window.  Bad-guy though he is, Baxter is subjected to unspeakable 
and completely hilarious ignominies in that story - I believe it was 
Blandings Castle.

2.  In "Leave it to Psmith", after the chrysanthemum-cabbage incident so well
described by Kannan, Freddie travels to Market Blandings in the train,
and somehow or ther other finds a suitcase has landed on his midriff.
I believe he is not at his verbal peak at that point, and merely says 
"Gaa" several times.  I double up *every* time I read that.

3.  The crown IMO belongs to a short story called "Lord Emsworth, and the
Girl-friend".  On Connie's urging, Lord Emsworth agrees to take part in
some village fest, (with top-hat!); and goes inviting people.   There he gets
nailed by a dog, whom he addresses as "Sir" (the dog) 
while dancing with the cane.  The little girl that subdues the dog, also 
bites Connie, ends up as Lord Emsworth's pal, and pumps enough backbone
in him to confront not just Connie, but even the fearsome Angus McAllister,
the head gardener.   A Capital Story.  In fact, the mother of all Capital 
Stories.   Trivia question: when else does Lord Emsworth confront Connie?

Pushkar
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From: vedantam@leland.Stanford.EDU (Shankar Vedantam)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Wodehouse vignettes...
Date: 28 Jan 93 19:24:42 GMT
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA

What ho old chaps,

Add me to the list of delighted people to find a Wodehouse newsgroup. (At last)

A suggestion: From my first readings of the articles, the most delightful are 
the vignettes...I don't know of any Wodehouse fan who can't dip into a book at 
random and shortly thereafter be spotted with a beatific smile on his/her face.

So everyone, do share your favourite (and that is favourite not favorite) 
passages. Maybe we could even have a small survey and "elect" the ten best
ones: Our personal gems, so to say. The idea being of course that in the 
process we can all wallow in the "Master's best".

Here are a couple of mine:

"She had a laugh which sounded like a train going through a tunnel."
 
"(He) bore the hangdog expression of an Englishman who is about to speak 
French."

...

Ciao (or, more appropriately: pip, pip)

Shankar
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From: nwbernst@unix.amherst.edu (Neil Bernstein)
Subject: Re: The Junior Ganymede
Organization: Amherst College
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:51:24 GMT

Udaya Sathuvalli 207Cox x3626 (udaya@portia.rice.edu) wrote:
: 
: Jeeves is known to belong to 'The Junior Ganymede'
: club. Does anyone happen to know the reason for that name?
: Is "Ganymede" some classical allusion- it would not
: be surprising, considering the other classical 
: allusions in PGW's work? 
: 
: Any ideas?

	Ganymede was a sprightly young lad snatched up by an eagle, don't you
know, and made to serve drinks at Zeus' cocktail parties.  The first 
gentleman's gentleman, it would appear -- a creation almost as important as
golf, what?  Also a moon of Jupiter, for you chaps with your eyes on the skies.

						- Neil Bernstein
						Struggling Classics Major

			"I spit me of Nastikoff."


 
: (I once went to a talk organized by the Houston
: chapter of the Wodehouse Society. The speaker
: was a retired colnel from the Britsh Army, 
: a chap by the name of  N. T. P. Murphy 
: (author of "In Search of
: Blandings"). He was wearing a "Jeeves" tie that
: evening. When I asked him about it he told me that
: there was a very select Dry Cleaner's in London
: called "The Junior Ganymede". The "Jeeves" tie was 
: standard issue to all the employees!)

	Wow!  I didn't know the Wodehouse Establishment was that 
commercialized...
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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: More trivia.
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:05:56 GMT


What's the name of the only PGW short story to be narrated by a dog?

Hint: It's the last story in "A Wodehouse Bestiary" (ed: D.R. Bensen).

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>

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From: sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar)
Subject: Re: Wodehouse translation
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:44:40 GMT

In article <1k6pfsINNmhv@pollux.usc.edu> brao@pollux.usc.edu (Bapa Rao) writes:
>I can't imagine Wodehouse translating well into any language. Rewrites,
>perhaps. But you have to read it in English to appreciate the humor.

Not necessarily. Asterix is translated from the French.

Sachin
From: v128juxa@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (SCHUYJUANNAH)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Books on Jeeves and Wooster
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:27:00 GMT
Organization: SUNY@Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Could someone please list all the Wodehouse novels which involve Jeeves
and Wooster?

Also, please list a J&W episode guide.....

Thanks.
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From: kcl@world.std.com (Katherine C Long)
Subject: Gussy Finknottle
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 13:46:47 GMT

   I am also enjoying the latest Wodehouse on TV (still have
the 4th part to watch.)  I understand that TV has to take
some liberties with the text - but I do like PGW's endings
better than the TV script's.  I thought the ending where
Aunt Agatha is hit by the fire hose stream was overdone.
But it was fun to see how the short stories were melded together.

   Anyhow, aside from the main characters, the casting of
Gussy the Newt Fancier and Madeline Basset, who believes
that every time a baby coughs a wee fairy is born, is grand!
The Drones' Club is just how I pictured it - I hope we get
to see the Ganymede Club where Jeeves hangs out!

Katherine Long
kcl@world.std.com

  8-)
   XXXXxxxx=
From: weerawsm@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Shahani Markus Weerawarana)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Re: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Summary: His books are also popular in Sri Lanka
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:56:11 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Purdue University


n article <AMATHUR.93Jan21120006@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu> amathur@thunder.EEAP.CW
RU.Edu (Alok Mathur) writes:

> I read a lot of PGWs in India. I guess they would be popular in UK and 
> probably the US. Where else does Wodehouse attract people (I saw a posting 
> from Sweden) ?

His books are widely available and widely read in Sri Lanka.

Shahani
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From: arumugam@still.ecn.purdue.edu (Bhaskar Krishna Arumugam)
Subject: Re: Hello out there!
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:44:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan26.200150.29141@cascade.Stanford.EDU> apte@glacier.Stanford.EDU (Pushkar Apte) writes:
>
>
>This posting is partly out of the sheer joy of seeing a prompt on my 
>usually obnoxious .newsrc asking whether I wanted to subscribe to 
>alt.fan.wodehouse.  Do I?  You gotta be kidding!!!
>
>But since I'm on the net, let me post one of my 
>numerous favorite P.G. Quotations:
>
>Jeeves on Bertie:
>
>"He has a heart of gold, but (he's) mentally neglible."
>
>The Pride of the Woosters (I think)
>
>Pushkar
>-------
>
This reminds me of this quatation from Wodehouse. I do not know from which
story this is but it appears in more than one story at least.

    He moved so fast that he met himself coming back...

Ciao

Srini



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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:07:36 GMT

In <C1A3KJ.EH7@news.iastate.edu> sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar) writes:


>2. Is there anyone around who agrees that Blandings and Psmith and
>many of PGW's other works are far better than the Bertie Wooster stories?
>(Probably not!)

	Well, you found one! I simply find myself enjoying the
Blandings/Psmith stories more than the Jeeves stuff.  I'm no literary
expert so I can't really compare them in terms of style and finesse....

>Sachin

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Neeran   Karnik  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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University of Minnesota         |        karn0001@student.tc.umn.edu
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From: amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Is this Wodehouse ?
Date: 27 Jan 93 05:40:44 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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Hi All,

I came across this while reading fortune(6) :

"...A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was
 waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity."

Sounds like something that Plum would have written, doesn't it ?



Actually the credit for this goes to Mark Twain (according to fortune).
Does anyone know which of Mr. Clemens' books contains this ?

Yes, this doesn't really have anything to do with PGW but I thought that fellow
Wodehousemates (I wish we would come to a consensus on what to call ourselves)
would appreciate this.

Cheers,


Alok.
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Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: sachin@iastate.edu (Sachin S Sapatnekar)
Subject: Re: Pitchfork?
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 00:51:29 GMT

In article <karnik.727921002@exa> karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik) writes:
>
>	Maybe my memory cells have been leaking, but wasn't 'Mike' the
>name of Psmith's roommate in "Enter Psmith"?? The star batsman for their
>school team?

The title was "Mike and Psmith" when I read it (though it may have
appeared under more than one name). Mike = Michael Jackson (the
star batsman, as you said, and not the more modern version) of
"Mike at Wrykin" fame.  He played at least one county game (for Surrey?
Middlesex?) and would probably have played for England if there were another
book about him... or maybe not, since PGW seemed to shy away from making his
characters too famous. "M & P" was a sort-of sequel to "M @ W."

Sachin
PS - There may be some mistakes here. It's been ages since I read these books.
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
From: cffitzge@IASTATE.EDU (Charles F Fitzgerald)
Subject: Re: First!
Reply-To: cffitzge@IASTATE.EDU (Charles F Fitzgerald)
Organization: Iowa State University
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:45:29 GMT

-Ken writes:
>(a)	So you put the whole binge up to Jeeves and see if he can't
>	scare up a happy ending somehow.  Tell him my future is in his
>	hands, and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on
>	me, even unto half my kingdom.  Well, call it ten quid.
>	"What! I'm hanged if I do!"
>	"And you call yourself a pal of mine!"
>	"Yes, I know; but there are limits."
>	"Bertie," said *****, reproachfully, "I saved your life once."
>	"When?"
>(b)	"Didn't I?  It must have been some other fellow then..."

Sounds abombidibly (sp) like _Code of the Woosters_ (one of my all time
favorites, I am sure) and even if it's not, it ought to be.  Can't say
who said it, though.  Maybe that preacher sort, who was to marry the 
lass who had connections to the magistrate (not M. Basset, hang it, the
other one!)  It's been a year since I read it, and the particulars slip
the mind and all, what?

--
Charles F. Fitzgerald | '...it's a tale, told by an idiot,
Iowa State University | full of sound and fury,
cffitzge@iastate.edu  | signifying nothing.'
                      | _MacBeth_, by W. Shakespeare.

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From: nickles@sage.cc.purdue.edu (John A. Nickles)
Subject: Re: PGW Trivia
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:57:17 GMT

In article <Jan24.202155.75786@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:

>ps - Try this one. Does Bertie know Lord Emsworth? 
>

 Yes. In the first Jeeves story, Florence Craye is trying to get Bertie to
steal Uncle Willoghby's Memoirs because they contain scandoulous tales about
the aristocracy. One of the anecdotes concerns Lord Emsworth which shocks
Bertie. Bertie describes Emsworth as "a harmless old chappie who potters
around digging up spuds" (paraphrase). In "Wooster's World", it is suggested
that Uncle Willoghby's memory is faulty, because Galahad claims that Clarence's
only claim to fame when they were young was the abilty to mix a superb salad.

John A. Nickles
Standard Disclaimer
"Let's leave at once, it's not a good house.
It has no books by P.G. Wodehouse"

P.S. I agree that Wodehouse fans should be called Eggs, Beans and Crumpets.

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From: aleta@cs.cornell.edu (Aleta Ricciardi)
Subject: Re: Name for Wodehouse fans ...
Organization: Cornell University, CS Dept., Ithaca, NY
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:39:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.183956.18780@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, shenkin@still3.chem.columbia.edu (Peter Shenkin) writes:
|> In article <1993Jan25.161916.3444@ousrvr.oulu.fi> ano@phoenix.oulu.fi (A.M. Rutanen) writes:
|> >
|> >Hi world !
|> >I'm pleased to see that finally there is a jolly good newsgroup.
|> >My suggestion for name to fans is 
|> >
|> >Wodeans
|> 
|> I say again:  "Wodeheads", in analogy to "Deadheads", or just "heads".
|> Comments?
|> 
|> 	-P.

me too.  wodeheads.  now i want to read "stiff upper lip, jerry",
and "the code of the weirs".  and listen to "uncle bertie's band"

	aleta
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From: kencham@centi.cs.umn.edu (Deepak Kenchammana-Hosekote)
Subject: Re: Jeeves and Wooster on Masterpiece Theatre
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 15:24:30 GMT

In <Jan21.062413.87684@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian) writes:


>[This group is long overdue!]

>Bertie = B+
>Jeeves = A-
>Madeline Basset = A-
>Bingo Little = B
>Gussie Finknottle = A-

For the lesser fortunate ones here (who missed this _MT_), could someone list
the cast?

Tally ho!

\deepak
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From: amathur@thunder.EEAP.CWRU.Edu (Alok Mathur)
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: Thoughts on Wodehouse
Date: 21 Jan 93 12:00:06
Organization: Case Western Reserve University
Distribution: alt
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Hi fellow Wodehouseians (Only proposed term so far)

I love Wodehouse for the complex plots (and subplots^n), the incredible endings,
the characters each with their idiosyncracies, and most of all the beautiful and
hilarious language.

But in spite of all this, I think that the majority of stories have similar
themes as well as similar characters. Maybe that is why I like them !

Typical characters : Aunts (either the kind that eat barbed wire (a la Aunt Agatha) 
                            or the fun kind (Aunt Dahlia)
			    I hope I didn't get my aunts mixed up)
		     Uncles (Typically strange - Lord Emsworth)
		     Protagonists (Usually the Wooster kind
					How exactly would one describe them ?)
		     His friends (Romantic, )

The ladies have more varied characters, though.

And then you have Jeeves !
		

Comments ? Flames ?


I read a story, Laughing Gas, with an interesting twist to it
- Our protagonist switches souls with a kid Hollywood star and then we have
  romance, kidnappings, Hollywood actresses and complex plots typical of PGW.

Any other experiments with the metaphysical ?


I read 'The Small Bachelor' a long time back and remember the preface mentioning
that PGW was especially fond of this book. Has anyone else read something
similar about this or know which was his fondest book ?

I read a lot of PGWs in India. I guess they would be popular in UK and probably
the US. Where else does Wodehouse attract people (I saw a posting from Sweden) ?


Cheers,


Alok.
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From: st902145@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
Subject: A Mrer Confirmation
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:19:52 GMT
Reply-To: st902145@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University

I mean, of course, "mere," not "mrer."  Oops.

In re an earlier post: Yes, Jeeves' first name is Reginald.  We discover this
when Bingley (you remember Bingley, the one who tries to dismember Bertie 
with a carving knife) comes up to J and B in the Junior Ganymede after B has
just nearly been run over by a cab and greets J as "Reggie."  This causes B
to "freeze in his seat," thinking what embarassment it would have caused had
J's first name been Bertie.  What a convoluted explanation! but there you
have it.

The Picosystem   (Stacy Ratner)
ST902145@pip.cc.brandeis.edu

(I may eventually get a real sig :) )
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