The rhythm of his sentences and then the almost bulletproof good humor of his perspective, begin to seep into your system and you notice bits of his Drones Club jargon in your own speech. The tonic effect of Wodehouse is, I believe, heightened with repeated listening. In a bookshelf with more high spots than a can-can line, Code of the Woosters is one of the highest a story that delights no matter how many times I listen to it-and I generally fit it in at least once a year, in the autumn, the season in which the story is set. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.” This classic from the Monarch or Royal of the Master-he apparently used both brands of typewriter in the course of a longish authorial career-has certainly released me more than once from dull hours and duller cares. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. Evelyn Waugh was about right when he said, “Mr.
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