P.S~ D'you know, one of the great success of this story was probably the fact that it didn't use the Bertie-voice, and thus was still realistic. If you had used the 'Bertie's POV' voice, then it probably would have made it too depressing, having ‘brought home’ the reality of the inevitable ~ that even such wonderful personalities must grow old and die. You didn’t, you used a wonderfully observant third voice instead, and that made the story detached enough from the canon to make it aaaaw rather than ooo. If you see what I mean. See, in my own head, the magic of the Wodehouse novels was that he ended the books with no 'real' ending- that is,; the last book still had the pair in their prime, ready to take on any new adventures/aunts/fiancées together. That’s why it’s simply unthinkable to think of them growing old, even though that is the reality of life. It’s …nicer... I suppose, to think of them as immortal characters, forever young and strong, trapped within the books.
The fact that you managed to transcend this basic ‘youngness’ of the pair, while still making it realistic, is too, too, cool. I mean it’s just so BELIEVEABLE – I don’t even believe in the whole heaven/hell/God/life after death thing, and I found myself believing this. So brilliant.
P.P.S ~ D’you know, I’ve just one suggestion I’d like to make? Tell me what you think of it ~ I think, at that bit where you have Bertie searching for the correct word/phrase in the ‘crazy/lonely as a loon’ bit, you might want to wait to give the correct phrase until after he reunited with Jeeves. Sort of like ~ Bertie dies, meets Jeeves again, and asks, ‘I say Jeeves, I’ve been meaning to ask... what’s that phrase ...lonely as a?’ Jeeves could then complete the phrase correctly, like he always did when he was alive.
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You didn’t, you used a wonderfully observant third voice instead, and that made the story detached enough from the canon to make it aaaaw rather than ooo. If you see what I mean.
See, in my own head, the magic of the Wodehouse novels was that he ended the books with no 'real' ending- that is,; the last book still had the pair in their prime, ready to take on any new adventures/aunts/fiancées together. That’s why it’s simply unthinkable to think of them growing old, even though that is the reality of life. It’s …nicer... I suppose, to think of them as immortal characters, forever young and strong, trapped within the books.
The fact that you managed to transcend this basic ‘youngness’ of the pair, while still making it realistic, is too, too, cool. I mean it’s just so BELIEVEABLE – I don’t even believe in the whole heaven/hell/God/life after death thing, and I found myself believing this. So brilliant.
P.P.S ~ D’you know, I’ve just one suggestion I’d like to make?
Tell me what you think of it
~ I think, at that bit where you have Bertie searching for the correct word/phrase in the ‘crazy/lonely as a loon’ bit, you might want to wait to give the correct phrase until after he reunited with Jeeves. Sort of like ~ Bertie dies, meets Jeeves again, and asks, ‘I say Jeeves, I’ve been meaning to ask... what’s that phrase ...lonely as a?’ Jeeves could then complete the phrase correctly, like he always did when he was alive.