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indeedsir_backupI was at the library and found they had a grand total of two Wodehouse books. That’s more than I hoped for really, as this is a tiny rural county in Tennessee. A Wodehouse Bestiary
is a collection of Wodehouse short stories that appear in other collections, but all of these include animals as plot movers. Like Jeeves and the Impending Doomwhere Bertie is on the roof of a hut on a island surrounded by a lake at Agatha’s country house. Held captive by a swan he calls out to Jeeves.
”Jeeves!”
“Sir?”
“I’m sitting on the roof.”
“Very good, Sir.”
Had to share that, made me laugh, and I felt this post might need a laugh to start out with. The foreword is written by Howard Phipps, Jr. President of New York Zoological society. Below is the paragraph of concern.
His pre-World War II tale “Open House” is concerned, at least in part, with a Peke (Pekenise) name Reginald. The British six month quarantine is a fact bearing some importance on the shape of the plot. Ironically, years later, that same quarantine, threatening to separate Wodehouse from his Peke, Wonder, caused him to delay his departure from France across the channel despite clear warnings he had received, until it was too late and he was caught by the German occupation.
The Preface is written by D. R. Bensen, who met Wodehouse.
Wodehouse’s commitment to his Peke Wonder led to his being scooped up and interned by the German army in 1940. This is sometimes criticized as frivolously unforesighted, but Wodehouse shared this lack of prescience with most military and political leaders of Britain and France --- Belgium, Holland, Norway, and Denmark as well, for that matter.
I’m a dog person myself, so I can totally see that! If none of the powers that be believe it, why would a normal person think it was going to happen? I know he probably regretted that decision, give what came after, but I know he didn’t blame the dog. Read all that and thought you all might be interested.
One more quote from Benson of the Preface, just to give us a chuckle to end on.
Many medieval treatises contained accounts, sometimes illustrated, of “wild men of the woods,” variously called wudewasa or wodehouses. These could be distinguished from great apes chiefly by the large size of the feet and the elongated big toe. Wodehouse, I believe, took a size 9, often preferring tennis shoes.
I giggled, then had an image of Bertie, the Wildman of the Woods being civilized by Jeeves, while undressing each other. Plot bunny grenade, anyone?
Also, I’ll tag on some pimping of a fic I wrote and posted on the kink meme, where all of you might not be members and had the chance to see. Jeeves gets Bertie out of that mustache…
Delayed Removal
Ta!
is a collection of Wodehouse short stories that appear in other collections, but all of these include animals as plot movers. Like Jeeves and the Impending Doomwhere Bertie is on the roof of a hut on a island surrounded by a lake at Agatha’s country house. Held captive by a swan he calls out to Jeeves.
”Jeeves!”
“Sir?”
“I’m sitting on the roof.”
“Very good, Sir.”
Had to share that, made me laugh, and I felt this post might need a laugh to start out with. The foreword is written by Howard Phipps, Jr. President of New York Zoological society. Below is the paragraph of concern.
His pre-World War II tale “Open House” is concerned, at least in part, with a Peke (Pekenise) name Reginald. The British six month quarantine is a fact bearing some importance on the shape of the plot. Ironically, years later, that same quarantine, threatening to separate Wodehouse from his Peke, Wonder, caused him to delay his departure from France across the channel despite clear warnings he had received, until it was too late and he was caught by the German occupation.
The Preface is written by D. R. Bensen, who met Wodehouse.
Wodehouse’s commitment to his Peke Wonder led to his being scooped up and interned by the German army in 1940. This is sometimes criticized as frivolously unforesighted, but Wodehouse shared this lack of prescience with most military and political leaders of Britain and France --- Belgium, Holland, Norway, and Denmark as well, for that matter.
I’m a dog person myself, so I can totally see that! If none of the powers that be believe it, why would a normal person think it was going to happen? I know he probably regretted that decision, give what came after, but I know he didn’t blame the dog. Read all that and thought you all might be interested.
One more quote from Benson of the Preface, just to give us a chuckle to end on.
Many medieval treatises contained accounts, sometimes illustrated, of “wild men of the woods,” variously called wudewasa or wodehouses. These could be distinguished from great apes chiefly by the large size of the feet and the elongated big toe. Wodehouse, I believe, took a size 9, often preferring tennis shoes.
I giggled, then had an image of Bertie, the Wildman of the Woods being civilized by Jeeves, while undressing each other. Plot bunny grenade, anyone?
Also, I’ll tag on some pimping of a fic I wrote and posted on the kink meme, where all of you might not be members and had the chance to see. Jeeves gets Bertie out of that mustache…
Delayed Removal
Ta!
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Date: 2011-02-06 09:57 am (UTC)And I can't resist saying: a Peke? Really?I mean, they are friendly, and smart, but that uh, isn't really a manly-manly dog, is it? And Reginald? Just sayin', makin' no conclusions.
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Date: 2011-02-06 11:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-08 07:44 pm (UTC)Oh, and saw that lovely little bit of ficcery, too. Well done.
EDIT: Icon fickleness
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Date: 2011-02-09 05:32 am (UTC)I'm glad you enjoyed the fic too!
Thanks :)