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Plenty of Room for Stupidity: On P. G. Wodehouse
By Brad Leithauser
The New Yorker, newyorker.com
March 26, 2014
Excerpt:
Much of Wodehouse's appeal lies in a remarkably smooth
serving up of a verbal stew of rather lumpy elements:
English slang, American slang, literary allusions, needless
abbreviations, mixed metaphors, fussily precise details
about trivialities . . . He loved outlandish similes,
particularly those drawn from the natural world: "She
uttered a sound rather like an elephant taking its foot out
of a mud hole in a Burmese teak forest"; "She looked like a
tomato struggling for self-expression"; "The fact that he
was fifty quid in the red and expecting Civilization to
take a toss at any moment had caused Uncle Tom, who always
looked a bit like a pterodactyl with a secret sorrow, to
take on a deeper melancholy."
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