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Right, um...I don't have access to a biography of Wodehouse right off-hand, and I haven't been able to pick up this information via the redoubtable Google. However, I'm anxious to know.

Does anyone know how much Plum studied classics in school? Besides the fact that he seems to have no shortage of mythology references, I keep seeing classical constructions in his writing -- particularly the transferred epithet (putting an adjective where it doesn't technically belong, like "...after I had sucked down a thoughtful cup tea"). Wodehouse is the only person I've ever seen pull this off in English, so I'm curious.

I'm probably just being a dork who sees classical references everywhere, but I thought I'd ask anyway.

I think it's been pointed out here already that an awful lot of Wodehouse's myth references have to do with homosexuality...though admittedly you can't swing a dead cat in Greek mythology without hitting some homosexuality, I'll see what I can do about a list. Because hey, lists are an excellent waste of time.