indeedsir_backup | Plum Shout Out! (Reply)

From the Index:
Wodehouse, P.G., W’s liking for books by, 338

Some background. My flatmate is a history major. She knows I like this Wodehouse character, so she showed me a book she was reading for class. About the Kaiser of Germany, who many say is to blame for starting World War I, which was the excuse for WWII and so on. She told me that his mother was German but raised in England, so he spoke English and had knowledge of England, including Plum.

The Book:

The Last Kaiser: A Biography of Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia, by Tyler Whittle, 1977

Page 338 starts with and indented quote:

This is the eighty-year old Herr Wilhelm Hohenzoller, guilty of the premature deaths of many millions of people.

(Snipping out some none Plum stuff.)

He read and re-read his favorite books. He has a special affection for the works of P. G. Wodehouse and if his Household displeased him he had a puckish way of punishing them by reading Wodehouse aloud and watching their reactions. It was largely his English inheritance which made the adventures of Jeeves, Mr. Mulliner, Uncle Fred and Gally Threepwood so enjoyable to him – and totally incomprehensible to the more Prussian members of his suite. Possibly, in living out his dreams of being a country squire he saw a parallel between his simple life of study, exercise and feeding the ducks on the moats and that of one of the most remarkable of all Wodehouse’s creations, Clarence, Earl of Emsworth, whose chief joy was the fattening of his prize sow, pottering in the rose gardens, and reading up his valued text book, Whiffle On the Pig. The great difference between them was that Emsworth lived in a perpetual Shropshire summer, while the calm of the Kaiser’s retirement was subject to many outward interruptions.

This is all copied directly from the text, including the run on sentences and comma abuse. The only thing I can be blamed for is not looking up proper MLA citation of the book. So go on, read Plum out loud to me;)

edit: Here's a newspaper story I just saw, that would be a wonderful plot bunny, should anybody be adopting. It should open the article in a new tab. Taxi driver 'devastated' after sneeze caused crash into ancient monument
Could even be a 'bike ride in the dark' story, where a sniffy and angry Bertie drives back to London, only to crash into some monument, and nothing is hurt, except his pride and his awareness that Jeeves told him about that monument on their way out to Brinkely (?) and Jeeves must comfort him...