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- From: brao@pollux.usc.edu (Bapa Rao)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.wodehouse
- Subject: Re: Jeeves Canon
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 10:48:39 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- >I believe The Clicking of Cuthbert is a collection of short stories,
- >mainly (if not exclusively) concerned with golf.
-
- Correct. The Clickeing of Cuthbert is the first story in the collection.
- Cuthbert is
- Cuthbert Banks has a fiancee who is addicted to organizing teas for
- visiting Russian novelists (in whose books nothing happens till page
- 500 when the mujhik decides to commit suicide). Cuthbert himself is
- an ace golfer who could take a Russian novelist or leave him alone.
- Cuthbert's prospects grow dimmer as the love of his life is drawn
- towards some snot-nosed literary pretender. Cuthbert clicks when
- a star Russian guest turns out to be a crazed fan of Cuthbert Banks
- (Cutaboot Banks).
-
- My first Wodehouse (and still my favorite) is "Psmith in the City".
- Anyone else read it?
-
- Bapa Rao
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