![]() ![]() ![]() So, too, the sequence in which Bertie, starving hungry (“like a python when the Zoo officials have just started to bang the luncheon gong”), repeatedly fails to find breakfast as he is confronted with one scene after another in which other people enjoy magnificent morning feasts. Such scenes as a night in which Bertie repeatedly fails to find a place to rest his head are world class hilarious. Jeeves himself has oiled off elsewhere for much of the action, but in his absence, Bertie Wooster’s ability to get into scrapes is exploited to outstanding effect. ![]() Thank You, Jeeves strikes me as one of the funniest of the Jeeves tales (quite an accolade – Ed). The cover of the Folio edition of ‘Thank You, Jeeves’ Thank You, Jeeves: hilarious set-pieces So here, without further ado, are a few additional succulent fruit, assembled by me with pleasure from Thank You, Jeeves. Indeed, I have been struck by the poverty of many self-styled treasuries of quotations when it comes to Plum’s oeuvre. More recently, in my blog How to read P G Wodehouse: a new prescription, I savoured the fruits of recent roaming of the Plum pastures and cited juicy quotations from the outstanding Ring for Jeeves. My blog How to read P G Wodehouse: a practical guidepraised Plumtopia, a P G Wodehouse specialist, for its advice on precisely this subject. “Thank You, Jeeves” is one of the funniest Jeeves and Wooster stories you could wish for – I am grinning wildly even as I write these words ![]()
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