“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.”
Wodehouse 3
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Wodehouse 2
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“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy’s Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day’s work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city’s reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
Wodehouse 1
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This month will mark the 106th anniversary of the publication of P.G. Wodehouse’s first humorous piece. In honour thereof, we shall post a Wodehousean flash of wit every day throughout November. Behold the first:
“There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.”