Word: alling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Actually he has created a best of all impossible worlds in which everybody is as loony as a bedbug, absurdity is the only plot, and only rationality is vile.
There is the psaga of Psmith ("the p ... is silent as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan"), the fastidious young man who calls everybody "Comrade," and almost alone among Wodehouse fauna has enough wits to live by. There is the epic of Jeeves, the infallible, verse-quoting valet ("We are in...
Wodehouse's American friends for a long time heard nothing about him at all. This week they learned that he is interned in a former insane asylum at Tost, a small village in the monotonous sugar-beet flatlands of Upper Silesia. Wodehouse has been there since the prison camp...
Wodehouse is allowed to write three letters, four post cards monthly. He is said to be getting all the working supplies he needs, to be writing a novel. What the novel is about Prisoner Wodehouse did not tell.
Essayist Richard Steele to Mary Scurlock (1707): ". . . You must give me either a fan, a mask or a glove you have worn, or I cannot live. . . ." Biographer James Boswell to Isabella de Zuylen (1764): "You have fine talents of one kind; but are you deficient in others? Do you think...