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- From: kannan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Kannan Subramanian)
- Subject: Re: Golf? Spats?
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 20:13:53 GMT
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- In article <C1ADAs.J6o@acsu.buffalo.edu>,
- ptyaxel@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Seymour Axelrod) writes:
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- |> Why has no one mentioned the golf stories? or the Young Men in Spats? Surely
- |> the airheads there are as inspired creations as Jeeves and Wooster, or Mr
- |> Mulliner's relations, or Psmith. (Thanks to Bapa Rao for reminding me of the
- |> greatest first line in English verse: "Across the pale parabola of joy ..."
- |> [Ralston McTodd]).
-
- Poetry apart, Psmith's versatility and love for precision has always inspired
- me.
-
- "... In fact, what sort of work ...?" [Miss Clarkson at the Employment Bureau]
- "Employment."
- "What sort of employment do you require?"
- "Broadly speaking," said Psmith, "any reasonably salaried position that has
- nothing to do with fish."
-
- [also priceless, are the Emsworth-Psmith encounter and the chrysanthemum motif]
-
- |> Is it my imagination, or is the Indian subcontinent in fact way ahead of the
- |> rest of the world in appreciation of Wodehouse?
-
- No. No imagination there.
-
- -kannan
-