The Mind Creative DEC 2013
It was a proud day for Wodehouse (nicknamed “Plum”) when in
1939 he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford University.
He was later honoured with KBE (Knight of British Empire). Born
in Surrey, England in 1981 he died in New York in on 14th
February1975, aged 93. Quite appropriate that the lovable author
passed away on Valentine’s Day.
Having read over 60 of his
classic comedies, it was a
personal loss to me. PG
Wodehouse made more
people laugh than any
other author. I end with
another quote from Belloc:
“If in, say, 50 years Jeeves and any other of that company – but
in particular Jeeves – shall have faded, then what we have so
long called England will no longer be.”
This was written 65 years ago and neither PGW nor Jeeves are
forgotten. Television sitcoms mention Jeeves and there is a
laundry in St Ives called Jeeves.
Lives there a man with mind so glum, as not to laugh when
reading “Plum”?
The quotable PG Wodehouse
“Big chap with a small moustache
and the sort of eye that can open
an oyster at sixty paces.”
“Just as I am about to feel
belligerent about some country, I
meet a decent sort of chap. We
go out together and lose any
fighting thoughts or feelings.”
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