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[cucumbermoon.livejournal.com]

Hello all! I have a day off and I decided to reread Jeeves in the Morning, one of my favorites. I'm about halfway through, and I've hit two wonderful quotes that I had somehow forgotten since my last reading. I thought I'd share. They both happen in a conversation between Bertie and Boko Fittleworth. The first is just sweet, and the second is hilarious taken out of context, with a dash of modern slang.



Quote the first:

"Dash it, man, if she could love you in spite of those grey flannel trousers of yours, it isn't likely that any mere acting of the goat on your part will have choked her off. Love is indestructible. Its holy flame burneth forever."
"Who told you that?"
"Jeeves."
"He ought to know."
"He does."


Quote the second:

"Bertie Wooster let me down? No, no, I would have said – Not Bertie, who not only was at school with me but is at this very moment bursting with my meat."
This was a nasty one. I wasn't actually bursting with his meat, of course, because there hadn't been such a frightful lot of it.



Burn!

Comments

[bnmc2005.livejournal.com]

ROTHFLMAO!!!!!

These are priceless. Love it!

[janeturenne.livejournal.com]

Awwwww! The first one made me actually, physically grasp at my heart, it's so adorable. Thank you for sharing!

[sagestreet.livejournal.com]

Priceless. :D And the first one is just ... *sighs* ... the epitome of cute.:)

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

I adore these with all my being.

Really!

[krisreinke.livejournal.com]

If you keep trying to stuff your meat into Bertie - no wonder Jeeves is peeved with you!
Back off the Bertie and get with your OWN girlfriend - and leave Jeeves' Bertie alone!

Re: Really!

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

This!

Indeed! Re: Really!

[krisreinke.livejournal.com]

Indeed! We only want to see Bertie stuffed with Jeevesian meat. (Which we may trust is substantial indeed.) Or, you know, the reverse. Because we know that, however dreadful teh waitcoat or spats, true love will endure in the Jooster soul. *grin*

Re: Indeed! Re: Really!

[erynn999.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. Jeeves, regardless, will always return to his dear Bertie, no matter how egregious the wardrobe failure. He even came back after the banjolele, and that's saying something.

I think it's saying LURVE. Pure, hopeless LURVE.

[lupus-malus.livejournal.com]

These are great. Thanks for posting. What a nice way to spend a day off!

[feanix.livejournal.com]

"Bursting with my meat."

Love it.

[toodlepipsigner.livejournal.com]

"Bursting with my meat" is my new favorite euphemism. How could I ever have forgotten?
Thanks for sharing!

[sunquistadora.livejournal.com]

Awww - the first one is SO sweet! Jeeves would know about loving in spite of odd clothing. :)
I do remember the second quote and doing a spit-take when I read it. Burn indeed!

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Jeeves in the Morning is my favorite as well. It's just too slashy to believe. Jeeves spouting poetry while on a midnight ramble = cutest thing ever.

[cucumbermoon.livejournal.com]

Yes, that part's wonderful! I always feel sad though because Bertie is so *not in the mood*.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

awww, love Jeeves the secret romantic for the first quote.
BAHAHAHAHA for the second one!

[heretherebefic.livejournal.com]

ROFL

I came across that second one not long ago and showed it to my mother. She told my aunt I was reading old-timey porn. XD "Bursting" is now a word that can make most of my family giggle.

The first quote... is like - like, almost confirmation of the ship's canon status. I say 'almost' because Bertie generally assumes that Jeeves knows everything, anyway.

[knightryder907.livejournal.com]

Could you please post the link to that fic? It sounds like a real corker ;-)

KR907

[cucumbermoon.livejournal.com]

This would a pretty interesting scene to rewrite. ;)

[saylee.livejournal.com]

Love it.

Later in the same book, Jeeves tells Stilton and Uncle Percy (with Boko, Nobby and Bertie in the room) that "Nobody, knowing Mr Wooster, would suppose for a moment that he would waste his sweetness on such desert air." Really Jeeves, you're not even trying to be subtle, are you?

[mellifluous-gel.livejournal.com]

I think Jeeves in the Morning will be on my Christmas wishlist this year. Those quotes are just... Well, if good old Plum wasn't trying to hint at something, his subconscious certainly had quite a lot to say on the matter of Jeeves/Wooster.

[redpike.livejournal.com]

As I recall, when Jeeves leaves Bertie at the cottage to go on to Uncle Percy's, Bertie says "I shall miss you", to Jeeves.

[cucumbermoon.livejournal.com]

Here's that scene! He also compares Jeeves to a gazelle:

"I shall miss you, Jeeves."
"Thank you, sir."
"Who was the chap who was always beefing about losing gazelles?"
"The poet Moore, sir. He complained that he had never nursed a dear gazelle, to glad him with its soft black eye, but when it came to know him well and love him, it was sure to die."
"It's the same with me. I am a gazelle short. You don't mind me alluding to you as a gazelle, Jeeves?"
"Not at all, sir."



Then there's this lovely little passage (after he meets Jeeves, who looks like he has good news):

"He doesn't exactly smile on these occasions, because he never does, but the lips twitch slightly at the corners and the eye is benevolent. I gave tongue eagerly."