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unearths some literary gems.
A few snippets from Wodehouse essays:
[from "To the Editor: Sir..."]A novel, after all, is rather a commercial sort of affair. A letter to the papers is Art for Art's sake.[from "An Outline of Shakespeare"]The fact that the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth appears this year....[That's the beginning of the piece; and, as I did the math, I found myself puzzled, because neither the date of its original publication, nor that of its being reissued in the collection in which I found it, seemed to match up with the 400th anniversary of the Bard's birth. But then I reread PGW's sentence--and noticed that he never said it was the 400th anniversary, or any particular anniversary at all! Technically, all he said was that Shakespeare's birthday was on the calendar that year. Ha![ditto]"Is there anything else!" cried Shakespeare. "Why, there's nothing else but something else."[from "Prospects for Wambledon"]It simply shows--well, I cannot at the moment think just what it does show, but it obviously has a significance of some sort.[I'm including that just because it's some sort of JC-E precursor.][from "Fashionable Weddings and Smart Divorces"][a couple of bride's family-groom's family pairings]Bootle - BartholomewMumbleby - Packsmith
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