![]() ![]() It's difficult to understand, but I've read it three times at least. Joy in the Morning – Jeeves, Wooster and the fearsome Aunt Agatha. ![]() "Books are my best friends", he confided. It is, Kipling argued, "one of the most perfect short stories ever written".Ĭountless readers of Wodehouse have testified to the way his novels have their own "stimulating effect" on morale, providing not just comic, but almost medicinal effects: the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm, after his defeat in the first world war, consoled himself by reading Wodehouse to his "mystified" staff the late Queen Mother allegedly read "The Master" on a nightly basis, to set aside the "strains of the day" more recently, news reports tell of the imprisoned Burmese comedian Zargana finding comfort in Wodehouse during solitary confinement. ![]() What happened was that Gladys, seeking further protection, slipped at this moment a small hot hand into his."Ĭontained but viscerally alive, there is a poignant reserve about this "mute vote of confidence" – the pace and rhythm of the sentences are as subtle as the emotions they convey. "It was, in itself, quite a trivial thing, but it had an astoundingly stimulating effect on Lord Emsworth's morale. ![]()
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