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- From: mikes@Ingres.COM (Mike Schilling)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: Jeeves: altruist?(was Re: Jeeves attacking a cop)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.005842.25848@pony.Ingres.COM>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 00:58:42 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.163811.6646@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
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- From article <1993Jan23.163811.6646@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, by ghouse@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Mujtaba Ghouse):
- >
- > re: Jeeves assaulting a policeman, again. It seems to me that there are
- > several places where Jeeves has been willing to do something unpleasant
- > for the sake of the greater good, such as telling someone else to commit
- > assault, or theft, or spreading lies about Bertie's actions (claiming
- > that Bertie was insane, or that Bertie was the one who had marooned
- > the Right Hon. Filmer on an island with a maddened swan, for example)
- > resulting in Bertie having to flee from Aunt Agatha. Of course, this
- > was always the lesser of two evils.
- >
- > -Mujtaba Ghouse
- > "Somewhere else, the tea is getting cold."
- Do you think that Jeeves find making Bertie out to be even dimmer than he is
- unpleasant? It seems that, especially in the short stories and earlier novels,
- Jeeves goes out of his way to do so, although he always has a good excuse
- for it. For instance, he does save Bertie from becoming Roderick Glossop's
- assistant by making Glossop think that Bertie is insane, but surely
- alternate plans were available. I don't know what Jeeves's motives are
- here; it does make Bertie more dependent upon him.
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