{"id":1534,"date":"2014-10-11T10:57:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-11T17:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2017-06-20T13:52:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T20:52:43","slug":"six-reasons-i-like-to-read-p-g-wodehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vinemaple.net\/studio\/six-reasons-i-like-to-read-p-g-wodehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Reasons To Read P.G. Wodehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"

P.G. Wodehouse (pronounced “Wood House” as I learned after pronouncing it incorrectly for many years) was a prose stylist and one of the great humorists of the 20th<\/sup> Century. S.J. Perelman, James Thurber, and Ring Lardner are his peers. I reread a few of Wodehouse’s novels and short stories each year. My Wodehouse paperbacks have worn rounded corners and yellowed pages, but I keep on reading them. Here is why:<\/p>\n

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  1. Current events. Bertie Wooster and his posse are frequently jailed for knocking hats off policemen. Would they have been jailed more frequently if the police wore webcams?<\/li>\n
  2. Political Theory. Wodehouse’s heroes are from the wealthy upper classes, but they struggle against oppression. An aunt insists Bertie marry a mountebank, a secretary bullies a titled pig fancier; these all chronicle life under the iron heel.<\/li>\n
  3. Health. Jeeves has a mixture that instantly cures hangovers. This is the stuff of health legend.<\/li>\n
  4. Style. Silver cow creamers appear in Wodehouse plots. My grandmother had a porcelain cow creamer. The tail was the handle and the cream poured from the cow’s mouth. As a child, I thought a porcelain cow creamer was the tip top of sophistication. Then I read Wodehouse and discovered that the upper crust has silver cow creamers.<\/li>\n
  5. Art. I once spent a day in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London looking for a silver cow creamer. They have a whole herd of them, but the cows all have matchstick legs and flies on their backs. My grandmother would not have a cow with flies on her table. Apparently, sophisticates like flies on their table.<\/li>\n
  6. Education. Wodehouse was published in Playboy so modest swains in search of wisdom could enjoy Playboy without looking at the pictures.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    P.G. Wodehouse (pronounced “Wood House” as I learned after pronouncing it incorrectly for many years) was a prose stylist and one of the great humorists of the 20th Century. S.J. Perelman, James Thurber, and Ring Lardner are his peers. I reread a few of Wodehouse’s novels and short stories each year. My Wodehouse paperbacks have … <\/p>\n

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